People are short, I will jump up and down

Lawrence 2021-10-13 13:06:14

Up to now, it would seem a bit embarrassing to make movies if they still use crossing as a gimmick, because it seems more suitable as a trick for third-world soap operas to fool low-end literary youth. So I didn’t conceal the "Looping Messenger" that was used to talk about things. I quickly found out that I was playing traverse here, and hurriedly threw out new concepts like "sealing the ring". This gesture even made me I feel a little humble and seem to be saying to the audience: "Yes, I'm still going through that little mess, I won't take care of it, but it's not that I'm tired of seeing you, I really have something to say."
Killing people across time and space is a very old man. The concept of "Terminator" series has been exhausted. "Loop Messenger" has upgraded this concept a bit, one is to set the past, present, and future three time and space to let people go back and forth repeatedly, and the other is to let oneself kill oneself, and then be chased and killed together. In fact, this has reached the edge of transcending logic, especially when you encounter something like yourself, it is easy to add garlic to yourself, because you can't explain the memory of this matter, you have seen the future you in the past, then you in the future will surely remember this It means that you will experience something you have experienced before, and you will step into the same river twice. This is a logical paradox. And "The Ring Messenger" also took advantage of this paradox at the end. Yucerf found the rainmaker, and Bruce Willis in another time and space knew it immediately and came to chase after him, that is, the old self is compatible with his youth. The current cognitive system, this kind of setting will lead to the collapse of the world. Will the messenger Joe meet Xu Qing again in the future and the next thing will happen? Because he has been told the result, he knows how to avoid it, and he will change his life. In this way, the future killer Joe and the Bruce Willis we have seen may become completely different people. This little change may be caused by the butterfly. The effect leads to a totally different world pattern.
Of course, "Loop Messenger" did not really solve this contradiction, nor did it intend to solve it. It still uses this setting to tell a story of mainstream values ​​that ultimately boils down to the use of love and tolerance to resolve hatred and killing, and it does a good job. Traversing actually satisfies people’s obscenities. Whether you are dissatisfied with reality or your reality, you can use the imagination of crossing to give yourself new meaning in life. And meeting your future or past self is an infinitely fascinating thing. For example, telling yourself 20 years ago, never touch the girl you met in your senior year, she will change your life. If you buy lottery tickets with this number, I will become a billionaire, brother, it's all up to you. . . "Loop Messenger" is not the configuration and layout of a blockbuster. Although it is promoted as "the only American blockbuster on National Day", it is indeed an interesting movie with interesting characters, interesting experiences, and some interesting ones. Actors.
When any traversal story can no longer excite yourself, the only thing that can satisfy yourself is the traversal through personal experience.

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Looper quotes

  • Older Joe: This is a piece of indentifying information on the Rainmaker. He's here. He lives here now. In this county. And I'm gonna use this to find him. And I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna stop him from killing my wife.

    Joe: Fuck you. And your wife. None of this concerns me.

    Older Joe: This is gonna happen...

    Joe: It happened to you. It doesn't have to happen to me. You got a picture right there in my watch? Let me see. Show me the picture. As soon as I see her, I walk away. I'll fucking marry someone else. Promise. So when I see that picture, that fog inside your brain should just swallow up all the memories, right? She'll be gone. If you give her up, she'll be safe.

    Older Joe: Give her up?

    Joe: Yeah, give her up. You're the one who got her killed. She never meets you, she's safe.

    Older Joe: You don't understand. We don't have to give her up. I'm not gonna give her up. I'm gonna save her.

  • Joe: There's a reason we're called loopers. When we sign up for this job, taking out the future's garbage, we also agree to a very specific proviso. Time travel in the future is so illegal, that when our employers want to close our contracts, they'll also want to erase any trace of their relationship with us ever existing. So if we're still alive 30 years from now, they'll find our older self, zap him back to us, and we'll kill him like any other job. This is called closing your loop. Eh, you get a golden payday, you get a handshake, and you get released from your contract. Enjoy the next 30 years. This job doesn't tend to attract the most forward-thinking people.