Time and space travel, killers, gangsters, and narration accompanied by the transition to the city kicked off the film's prelude. A chaotic, poor, timely enjoyment, and unpredictable society. Then came the concept of sealing ring. And among the loopers who either have nothing to do with themselves or have to accept the closure and begin to enjoy life, little joe is different.
Looper chose this career from the very beginning, and chose a life that will be sealed sooner or later, so they indulge in sensuality and have a life that is today and tomorrow. There is only little joe, he hides money, learns foreign languages, he has a girl he likes, and he is eager to get rid of his current life.
If at first he saw someone else's sealing ring, even though he was touched, he could still keep his heart still, when this happened to his only friend, Seth, his seemingly perfect shell finally began to crack.
Under the coercion and lure of Abel, he finally betrayed Seth. Some people may spurn his selfish cold blood, but he was originally a cold-blooded killer, and even if he hadn't become a killer, he was a lower-level mob wanderer. A child who is not as high as a spear can single-handedly rob the food store. Abel said that he is a small beast, and he can't stand his conscience and confirm to Abel that he will not kill Seth. Of course, such a pale confirmation is just for the sake of Make his conscience a little better.
The ending of Seth always makes me think it is the darkest and horrible part of this movie. It also reveals the mapping between the present and the future. The future is not inherently present, and will change as the present changes.
After experiencing the seth incident, little joe should still be dubious about the raincaller, but he is more certain that there will be the day when he encounters the ring. I think he should be very struggling with the closure. With Seth's lesson ahead, he is afraid of Abel's power and should not dare to let go of his future, but as the most distinctive little joe among so many loopers, he is probably the most hesitant.
Here the first part line appears in the film, and new loops are created along the different part lines. The latter part tells us through the mouth of old joe that all the future is just a possibility, and according to different choices now, some possibilities will become reality. In the first ring, if it is according to Joe's original idea, he will hesitate when he sees his future, and can't kill the opponent. This is his first possibility. However, this possible result may just be that he was killed by Abel's men and his private money was confiscated. He didn't dare to let this possibility happen, so he rejected it, and killed the opponent at the first sight of old joe. This produces the second ring.
After killing old joe, the closed little joe no longer had any expectations for the future, so he obediently came to China with the money as Abel told him. He got rid of looper's life, but he couldn't get rid of the fate of the closed ring, squandering time and wasting his life day by day.
Until he met Xu Qing [not even a name. . . 】Because of this woman, he began to strongly want to change his fate and escape the 30-year death period. Finally, because of the death of this woman, he was convinced to go back to the past and kill the raincaller at all costs. Because he was prepared, he easily knocked down little joe and escaped, which changed history again and formed the third ring.
As the little joe said at the end, these three rings seem to be self-contained, just a certain possibility of an infinite future, but in fact they are linked to each other and lead to the established future. The first ring may be the least possible future. The director just cut his perspective to the scene where little joe fell from upstairs and hit the car. Maybe this was little joe’s vision, but maybe the director just didn’t consider this possibility. After that, in this possibility, old joe gave little joe a note to run and leave the city, maybe he really ran away, and did not go to China to meet Xu Qing, so when it was time to seal the ring Easily caught and sent to the second ring to be killed by little joe. And the second Xiaohuan Joe chose to kill himself, succumbing to Looper's established fate, and met Xu Qing, and then wanted to come back and rewrite his life. But because of his actions, cid became a raincaller.
Whether to kill or not to kill, whether the old joe resists or does not resist, he cannot escape the result of being played with by fate, and the little joe who sees all this in his eyes finally makes a choice, the only way he can change this sad fate , Is suicide, let old joe disappear. And if old joe didn't kill Sara, cid would not completely become an angry and lonely raincaller.
The scene at the end shows Sara returning to the sugarcane forest after placing the cid. Everyone is dead. There is no rain caller and no looper. Little joe's hard-earned silver bars were scattered all over the place and no one picked it up. The setting sun illuminated the fields as golden, and Sara gently stroked little joe's face. And cid fell asleep peacefully.
Such a seemingly complete but sad story is probably intended to express the mapping and contradiction between the present and the future. When facing the established destiny, people are always reconciled and try to resist, even if they stand in front of them thirty years later, they are unwilling to listen to the "future" he tells them. The future is countless roads that continue in all directions. You think there are countless possibilities, but you find that in the end, you will get the same result by different routes. No matter how far you go, you will all converge on the same road. Do you still have the courage to continue to take steps?
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