I watched the Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt movie Live Die Repeat aka The Edge of Tomorrow for the second time. I think the gold standard of sci-fi action flicks is often thought to be Aliens but this movie may be even better.
I'm reminded of a lecture by Leonard Bernstein when he talks about how the underlying logic of a musical composition dictates that what should follow is a repetition, but that would be uninteresting, at which point the creative tool of the composer becomes deletion. The movie is a masterclass in how to repeat without repeating. The same events happen hundreds of times over and yet at no point does the movie start flagging. Much of the story is told through the implication of what was deleted. I feel like this film should have received an Academy Award for editing.
@dpiponi It reminded me one of those videogames where you have infinite lives and you can only progress by dying, starting again , repeating all the same actions until your previous death and try to progress a little further. I enjoyed the movie as well
