I rewatched Edge of Tomorrow last night, and having fixed the screen offset plus realised I needed to turn off every light in the room for the scenes at the dam and in Paris made it a much better experience second time around.
It often takes me a couple of watch-throughs to catch all the nuance happening on screen, what it brought out here was, inevitably, the nuance around the death scenes. When Rita says 'find me when you wake up', she then freezes and winces. I didn't catch it first time around, but she's deliberately killing both of them, by keeping both of them beside the dropship when it explodes. She's sacrificing her life on the word of someone she met 30 seconds ago. Hero.
Equally we see Cage's reaction to Rita's deaths building long before the scenes at the farm, in fact from the moment they start seriously trying to get off the beach.
And when he does decide to go alone, he ignores everyone, Rita, balls-out guy, etc, leaving them to die so he can get to the dam and finish it.
And it really does highlight how often they use the motif of showing something for the first time, and then having Cage do or say something to show it's not his first time there. Which just makes his "We never got this far before" when they emerge from HQ all the more effective.
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Date: 2016-08-03 02:34 pm (UTC)It often takes me a couple of watch-throughs to catch all the nuance happening on screen, what it brought out here was, inevitably, the nuance around the death scenes. When Rita says 'find me when you wake up', she then freezes and winces. I didn't catch it first time around, but she's deliberately killing both of them, by keeping both of them beside the dropship when it explodes. She's sacrificing her life on the word of someone she met 30 seconds ago. Hero.
Equally we see Cage's reaction to Rita's deaths building long before the scenes at the farm, in fact from the moment they start seriously trying to get off the beach.
And when he does decide to go alone, he ignores everyone, Rita, balls-out guy, etc, leaving them to die so he can get to the dam and finish it.
And it really does highlight how often they use the motif of showing something for the first time, and then having Cage do or say something to show it's not his first time there. Which just makes his "We never got this far before" when they emerge from HQ all the more effective.