I think it's justified

Leo 2022-03-19 09:01:02

This is not a parallel world, but a time travel in the same world.

After the shuttle, old Qiao's memory became blurred from the moment he escaped. Because Xiao Qiao lost the link and changed his life, he should no longer remember his life.

But Old Qiao must go to kill Yushi's mother to wake him up.

Therefore, the memory of Xu Qing probably didn't exist at the beginning. Old Qiao was flashed when he returned to the past, and he entered information such as Xu Qing. In order to wake up the rain caller, matrix arranged similar tasks for many people, that is, when they went back, they flashed their phones and asked them to go and kill the rain caller's mother.

The first one was killed because he was too weak when he was a child, and the second one, that is, Old Joe, failed the mission because Xiao Qiao committed suicide. But in the end, there must be a flashing shuttle to complete the task to activate the raincaller, so so many people keep coming back. . . .

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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.