The more lacking, the more thirsty, the crazier and more terrifying

Melba 2022-03-18 09:01:02

Strictly maybe 3.5 stars~ The
"two rings"
time ring reciprocates infinitely between Joseph and Bruce, simple and easy to understand; the causal ring is the highlight of the film, relatively hidden, it begins to appear in the second half of the film and the end is revealed, which is Bruce's intention. Going back and killing her wife’s childhood version of the raincaller, but finally let us discover that it was Bruce who made good boy Joe the dark raincaller. The second causal loop is formed under the background of the time loop. This is roughly the main logic of Loopers. It's just that Lao Mei made fatalism so clear by accident.

However, what impressed me the most in the whole film was not the half-cool logic, or the few thriller shots of disappearing fingers, nor the few special effects that Xiao Qiao roared like X man.
And it was the little boy who was snarling and restless, whose slowly calm expression in the comfort of his mother's love and words shocked me. The power of love is so strong that it makes everything quiet and good. And the less it is, the more craving and crazier it becomes, the more terrifying it becomes. . .


What puzzled me in the film was Bruce's anger. . . You can only go back and forth in time. Isn't that a prerequisite for you to enter? How can I unilaterally break the contract because of my dependence on love and thirst for love, and still feel rightly angry. . . It was your greed for love that harmed your woman. You knew the end long ago, but you promoted this unwillingness to love and then turned it into anger and spread it elsewhere, so there is a causal reincarnation. . .

Spit 2 points. . .
1. The Bund like this made me feel so embarrassed. For a few seconds, I thought I was watching a spoof short film. . . That big Mazda billboard. . Oh, hi,
2, Joseph's sex scene is too much, right? . . Dare to have something to do with the plot, or add a little more foreshadowing, otherwise I can only understand all the reasons as the emptiness and loneliness of the woman, and the man will directly go without pushing it. . . This is too embarrassing. .

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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.