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>>12182326
0/10

>>12182334
What, is the movie notoriously shitty or something?

>>12182338
No. That girl is one of those people who hate everything popular. The movie was pretty good. I might be interested in reading the book. I've spent a lot of time on /tv/ and many people there seem to think that it's adapted from a manga or an anime. I think they don't know what LNs are.

I haven't watched a movie since the last Toy story came out.

>>12182326

Not particularly faithful. Basic premise is the same but that is about it. The ending is radically different, for one. Read the LN.

>>12182383
light novels for kids so they had to make it darker and more adult for movie

>>12182388

Completely the fucking opposite, you retard.

This is fundementally a Sartreesque communist existentialist movie. The themes throughout the movie, can in a narrow view be discredited as fascist indoctrination, but its not. The soldiers represent the lower classes fighting an eternal unwinnable struggle against the replicants (representing global capital), an all consuming and unwinnable fight. The groundhog day gimmick that is applied to the tom cruise character, serves to make him a tool of the proletariat revolution. Unlike other war epics where the generic war torn lost couple is represented by an idealised Other (This Is Why We Fight) etc, but by a authentic, but a deeply flawed and ultimately growing Other, Edge of tomorrow shows us the horrible former servant of capital, gradually presenting deconstructionist arguments for the pursuit of happiness within a liberal democratic society. “The struggle” in this movie represents the struggle for a fundamental meaning for your life beyond vulgar individualistic ones. It is only through sacrifice and the utilitarian greater good Tom Cruise can achieve catharsis.

In existentialist terms, in the start he lives only for himself not caring beyond the superficial about anything associated with “the end of the world”, the live die repeat sequences allows him to go through the “living for others” and “living in himself” phases and finally accepting balance everything when he loses the "power", rejecting nihilism. Embracing the transcendental liberation of his stiuation, through acceptnce of the greater good and social emancipation for all the peoples. His own personal victory is the global victory for all, in himself as an authentic human being and for himself as no longer a slave for any one of these categories. As soon as he sheds the machinery(war suit whatever) of bad faith, he is truly free together with his fellow (wo)man to shed all traces of the horrible past redeeming all past revolutions.