First look at the characters that distinguish said:
young Joe / little embarrassing / Joseph Gordon-Livett
old Joe / old cloth / Bruce Willis
Sarah / Blunt / Emily Blunt
Cid / TK ability prodigy / call Rainmaker / Pierce Gagnon
the same person have the same One goal is to make oneself live better. It's just that under the 30-year gap, the two people chose different ways. The young ones choose to live well within the system, while the old ones choose to destroy the system.
I*. As the biggest contradiction of the movie, this is too pale and powerless. Isn't it good for you to pursue the same thing together? Why is it necessary to get half the result with half the effort?
Look back at the original lives of the two people.
Seniors: The peasant woman mountain dog has a little field and has time to roll the sheets.
Young man: Murder, save money to sell friends, and go to nightclubs when you have time.
The elderly said, your life is my life, run away, you must live well.
The young man said, didn't you go back in time for your wife? I can't finish looking for a few girls?
As for the temples of Blunt and the child prodigy, it seems simpler.
She just wants to provide a good environment for her children to grow up.
And just because his mother abandoned him to live in the city, he became the great demon who destroyed the world.
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Let's take a look at the similarities and differences between the domestic version and the North American version. From Baidu Post Bar "North American Box Office Bar".
——Joe was sold by his mother to change drugs when he was a child, staying on the street, and being raised by a black boss. His background is shown in three or four places in different ways: When his boss pressed his friend where he was hiding, he saw the reaction of the orphan on the street. He wanted to give his dancing girlfriend/selling girl half the money to raise a daughter, and finally give it to Sarah. Tell his mother's story, and of course his last choice.
——His mother abandoned him, which is the direct reason why he made a living as a killer. In addition to killing, spending, and saving money, little Joe is his entire life. After he betrayed his friend for money, there was a crisis, that is, he wanted to give the dancer half of the money to let her raise a daughter. From the dancing girl's refusal to accept his money, it can be seen how distrustful and respected he is in her heart.
In the original "Kill Old Joe" loop, in the first few years after retirement, he lived a life of drunkenness and gold, and New Shanghai is a good place to spend money. In the sixth year, his suitcase full of money (Grandpa Mao!) was running out, so he went to work as a killer to make quick money. In the version I watched, except that he recognized the Chinese beauty and told the old Joe that she "saved him", it didn't show how to "save him".
In short, Joe is quite incorrigible.
——Then Sarah is the mother. In her story, she abandoned her son and went back to the city to live a stray life, so the son didn't recognize her at all. So she is the same person as Joe's mother. It's just that she is a repentant mother. But although she looked back, it is not clear whether her son is saved. Little Joe saw a glimmer of hope in her, and also saw the possibility of a maternal life he dreamed of.
The movie does not promise that the little devil will grow up to be a good person. But there is a person who cares about him, at least he may not grow into a big devil. This is a basic principle of social continuity: parents cannot be responsible for the future of their children, but at least the parents have worked hard. So there is some hope in the future.
——So, although this is a science fiction movie, transcendence, and TK, these imaginary things, fundamentally, make people think: how much responsibility we are for the future. In modern American society, the proportion of black families with fathers is very low. If the whole society is like this, looper's world will not be far away.
A society that does not care for children is a society that is going to the end.
——The North American version is different from the domestic version: Although the North American version of Shanghai is prosperous, there is a drug-trading criminal underworld just like other places.
The North American version is different from the domestic version of old Joe: the North American version of old Joe basically continues the lifestyle of little Joe. Except for a good girlfriend who retired and lived an easy life in his later years, he was basically a bastard all his life.
The North American version of Joe is different from the domestic version: the North American version of Joe’s nightclub buys laughter dancers. They are very poisonous and a junkie. When I was on the farm, I vomited because of addiction. The North American version explained in detail his childhood being sold and adopted by gangs in the dialogue.
The domestic version basically deleted the character of the dancing girl. Her daughter is one of three children. (Because little Joe wants to give her money to raise a child, it’s not clear whether the child is Joe’s.)
So although the story is basically the same in these two versions, the characters’ coming and going and the explanation of their psychological motives are quite different.
——I am talking about deleting mostly dialogues. For example, Joe said that his mother's business was in a conversation with Sarah. (Sarah first talked about the reasons for her and Cid, and then little Joe talked about him.) Maybe it was deleted because I was afraid that the domestic audience would feel bored after watching the long conversation. Maybe the Chinese requested it to be cut into an action movie. Now that it lacks the plot background but is more like an action movie, don’t some people still say that it’s bored? So in addition to the reason for harmony, it may also be based on market tastes.
The background details of these characters in the North American version are all low-key and lightly conveyed, without sensationalism or rendering. I'm impatient and don't watch feature films often, and they don't necessarily pay attention to them. So I don't like the domestic version. If you have more dialogues than the North American version, you may not like it.
Okay, let's talk about Looper's worldview.
In the 2044 story, there are only two kinds of people, one is the poor and the other is the gang. The former went to work in nightclubs to make a living, while the latter became a Looper killer. There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The former drives a broken car, the latter can drive a turbo engine car.
No banknotes have appeared in the whole piece, so I don't know if they are all used as ghost coins. Only gold bars and silver bars have appeared. In the future, the world will suffer severe inflation, so Chun Ge is untrustworthy? And gold is finite on the earth. It can maintain its value for a long time, and a single piece of gold is enough for an adult to escape for his life.
Killing an ordinary person has two silvers, and killing oneself thirty years later has N golds.
Of course, the film does not involve Jincha, the government, and other power aristocrats. It is not a good thing to believe that the film deals with too many relationships between different groups.
TK ability? In the movie, this is a kind of mutation, a kind of mutation. Suddenly there is a children's version of Magneto and I am not used to it.
I won’t say much about the makeup of Xiaojiao and Laobu. But Xiao囧 imitated his tone and voice in the first half of his speech, imitating his expressions and movements-this is so cute. Xiao囧, how many times have you watched Die Hard? I can't help thinking that Shawn Yue also imitated Tony Leung's facial expressions.
I've seen Blunt's "Planning Bureau" before, in which she starred as the slim ballerina. Now she is a sturdy red and black farm girl. I can't help but sigh, I have to sacrifice when I make a movie. Where is that British accent?
By the way, she and Xiao囧 did it out of sexual desire, and had nothing to do with the plot. (She was touching her inner thigh beforehand).
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