One of the better movies I’ve seen with kids – and it’s extremely similar to the Oblivion, which is another great coded movie.
However, it has more action than Oblivion and is more gory, so keep that in mind.
This is a review and not an ad, so it obviously contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen Edge of Tomorrow yet – go do it right now!
This movie is a meditation on reincarnation and heroism. Cage has to relive the same day over and over again – and he learns more and more each day and gets closer and closer to victory.
Below are the most vivid themes important to modern European polytheists:
Heroic death Leads to immediate reincarnation.
The amount of honour you earn affects how fast you will reincarnate. The movie has impressive cuts that illustrate it.
Heroes get reborn immediately, but those that lived in fear, with no goals and in inactivity – spend aeons in the world of the dead.
This is the baseline of Pagan worldview, and the more you deviate from this, the more polluted your worldview is.
Believing and remembering
Throughout the whole movie, the strongest emotions we get are the urge to remember and get others to believe you.
We want everyone to remember so bad. We want everyone to believe Cage – the General, the privates, the Dr. Carter, Rita, Master Sergeant, and everyone else.
Our real life often feels the same – as we live on our goal is to remember, to unlock our experiences, skills, and spiritual treasures. We yearn to know how to act, and we want to remember ourselves.
Because we feel we have everything we need in our blood – we are a sum of thousands and thousands of generations of winners.
The last time is the most important one
Yet the most important thing (the killing of Omega) is done when Cage does not know what comes next.
He acts out of pure confidence and will.
When you have just one attempt and risk it all knowing it’s the right thing to do using your well-tuned intuition and the knowledge in your blood.
Cage lives his last attempt just like we all do most of our lives – without knowing what comes next. Everyone he meets on this last day is still seeing him for the first time.
His will drives him and gets him the win – the will the solution to the riddle of steel.
- You will not remember.
- They will not believe.
The lesson is that you need to detach from this pain.
It’s the paradox you need to be at peace with: you know you’ve done it before, you know you can do it again, but you don’t know how, when, or what happens next because the thread of your life is also woven by Fate.
They will believe once you win. Winners are not judged or doubted. The world changes once you win.
Groundhog day is not like this
One of the older classics, Groundhog Day, is also a tale about a man stuck living one day over and over again.
But the main message of The Groundhog is “the world is bad, so you need to do good for it to improve, somewhat of a gnostic/buddhist representation of the wheel of reincarnations as “hell”.
Edge of Tomorrow (and Oblivion too!) does not deal with any of that. There is no abstract “kindness”.
EoT focuses on reincarnation as a series of attempts to defeat the enemy.
This world is the paradise that must be protected, that’s by default and it’s not a matter of discussion.
Kindness is irrelevant while there is an enemy.
Defeating the enemy is the kindness, victory is the wisdom.
This is the Homeric Europe mindset.
In more peaceful terms, we reincarnate to pursue our goals. The most obvious goal is to prevail as species, to empower your bloodline.
Destruction of centralized evil – just like in Oblivion
Edge of Tomorrow is incredibly similar with another coded move with Tom Cruise: Oblivion.
Omega in Edge of Tomorrow is very similar to Tet in Oblivion – an evil alien entity that is working on destruction of humanity and extraction of world resources.
It’s the same intrusive alien monotheistic entity that either erases our memory and re-creates us as clones (Oblivion) or just wants to wipe us out (EoT).
Both entities are centralized, manufacture deceptions, both use linear obeying creatures (drones & mimics) to fight for them – these are obviously resembling the logic and imagery of “angels” in yahwism – both are interested only in pillaging the resources of the earth, and both are extremely fragile on the inside.
Tom Cruise loves himself a heroic self-sacrifical destruction of an evil deity. And he loves giving us great coded movies.
Each of them has golden nuggets of European Pagan wisdom for you to pick and process.
Sure, Scientology and all that, – the labels may change, the idea is the same.
See the movie with your kids!
Paganfather score: 9/10
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