Comment on Better Late Than Never

  1. Morbane Wed 09 Oct 2019 10:21AM UTC

    A monkey and a penguin, in fancy hats, holding paws/flippers

    Yesterday that’s tomorrow and now never, Rita who knew him might’ve said that’s exactly what he is. She might not have. He guesses that would all depend on which reset it was. - I love the deliberate disorientation here and how many angles of his strange circumstances you work in - the intense tension between his reality and everyone else's.

    But there’s J Squad, playing up to the camera just like he knew they would and he guesses that’s why he requested them, all of them - I love the weirdness of Cage's day, in this timeline after their victory, turning into exactly the sort of day he thought he was going to have at the start of the film: all PR, no bloodshed.

    There’s one on the table for her with a handful of lit candles that make the room flicker around them, - almost romantic? At least for what passes for romantic for them, heh.

    minutes later that feel like every reset he’s had all strung out from end to end - nice and ouch

    She stood and she saluted that mocking little salute and she left him there alone. He should’ve just told her. - I love how he stumbled into this dynamic entirely by accident, entirely by not knowing how to put words to it: I feel if he'd wanted to tell her everything she wouldn't still be hanging around, but because it's so big and because he isn't the kind of person who boasts any more, her curiosity is tying her to him almost as much as his intense dependence is tying him to her. But of course it wouldn't have worked if he'd planned it that way.

    “Hendricks,” she says, and she draws a breath and sighs it out. She can tell he knows. She doesn’t have to say more than that. - I love that for however intensely they came to know each other during the resets, there was stuff he could only figure out after the world went back to normal. I love how you've fleshed out this Hendricks idea and given her such awful intense context for how Cage feels about her.

    I did not see the second reset coming, but well done. And lol, I love how it gives Rita a chance to roll her eyes at Cage for all of the last ten years instead of wondering who he is and what he's going to do.

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