The moment Cage dies, he wakes up the previous day to fight again and again and again.
How does he not suffer the affects of sleep deprivation? Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) accumulates, and thus he should have fallen dead from lack of sleep.
Maybe the "visions" actually were the result of a lack of sleep?
Hmmmmmmmm
Don't know about the visions, but I had the same thought how he should be exhausted from lack of sleep. He dies in the middle of action and instantly awakens on the military compound and is back in action. And so forth, and so forth, ad infinitum. Impossible. Giant plot hole, if you ask me.
shareHis body is well rested when he's awake, duh. How is that not obvious?
shareI just assumed he resets as well, including wounds, sleep etc.
How can resetting be correct, since his consciousness, as shown by his awareness of linear progression, is maintained?
The future can't be changed, but the past can.
His consciousness may be linear, but his body resets, which means the ATP would also return to previous levels.
Plus, he could sleep every night before the Invasion. Remember, he wakes up the day before, so he's got that day to train, that night to sleep, and the next day, lands on the beach.
That is a possibility. About hormone levels. However, I'm guessing otherwise.
The reason I say that is because he was training pretty intensely with Rita. They were so focused on memorizing the details of the battle that I would be surprised if they chose to sleep.
Don't forget that only Cage was able to remember the events of the 'previous' day... not Rita. That, in my mind, makes me believe that there is something more than simple event memory that continues. Throughout training, his body developed muscle memory. Confidence increased. He developed a strong attraction to Rita.
I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm just unable to see how his body was able to continue without apparent sleep.
The mechanics of it is all going to be pure speculation, since it's not explained in the film.
At minimum, we know his memories are being replaced. Muscle memory is also in the brain (just another type of memory), so it makes sense, given we know his memories are being updated, that muscle memory also comes along with that.
We can also safely assume his blood is also changed in some way, since bleeding out would give the Omega back its reset ability. The alien blood infects him in the future and somehow also physically infects his body from yesterday. Potential side-effects of having the alien blood in his system, like, say not needing sleep, are unknown, but possible if the writers decide to expand on it at some point.
Otherwise, I think we're supposed to assume he wakes up physically the same each and every time, just with new memories. This heals wounds and puts him back in a refreshed state. It's the morning, and he's already had a good night's sleep (and a taser nap).
And while I'm sure he and Rita might pull all-nighters on occasion, he doesn't always have to do the same thing every time. He has plenty of opportunity to catch up on sleep if he wants to.
He had a full night of sleep after he was tasered at the general's office, then woke up at the base on the pile of bags. That was still the case after he reset the day.
shareMaybe he slept some days. Woke up and shot himself in the head. You'll never know.
shareWhen he "resets", it's only information being beamed back to his previous self (which requires him to be asleep--check out the link below for details). His body, brain, etc. are in the state they were in at that moment, which again is always while he's resting. So physically he's rested each and every time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/board/thread/234517612?d=234517612#234517612
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Because he just woke up. Again, and again, and again. Everyday he just wakes up, so he's well rested. His body doesn't age when the days resets. The only thing that carries over is his memory. Hence why he dies, then resets...
shareFurther, adding to the rest:
Isn't the battle set for the next day, i.e. the day after Cage "wakes up", which would give him at least one night to sleep before looping back?
Ignorance is bliss... 'til it posts on the Internet, then, it's annoying.
What do you inject to flush your body of atp and what are the sideeffects?
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Giant plot hole and bla, bla, bla. You people just relax and enjoy the movie.
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