Some of my understanding

Toney 2022-03-21 09:01:07

1. Every time I crossed back, I reopened a process, parallel universe worldview,
so Xiao Qiao said, "That's your life, not my life."
Xiao Qiao loves to call the rain teacher his mother and
kills the future when he was young. I have been looking for Xu Qing for 20 years

. 2. Two people in the same process can communicate with each other through self-harm. Little Seth wanted old Seth to go to the killer’s base to rescue him, but Seth was tortured to death. Old Seth was pitiful and half naked just to be conquered (the bloody stuff lying on the bed in the scene is Little Seth)

3. Every time a traveler travels from time-space A to time-space A-30, it is equivalent to cleaning the body of time-space A and copying it in time-space A-30. This copy has already bid farewell to that world. It removes trouble for the organization, but if this replica does not die, it may cause trouble to the organization in A-30 time and space, so it must be killed immediately in this world.

4. The purpose of the killer to kill himself with a closed loop is to let the killer know that if you solve yourself by yourself, your life is a perfect closed loop. People who believe in fatalism tend to be better controlled by the organization, which is much like a ritual. So, if you are not shooting yourself, you will not have this sense of ritual. In other words, the ring killer thinks he exists in the ring world. In the real world, a tree-like branch is added every time it crosses. Old Qiao stubbornly wanted to kill the rainmaker because he didn't have the consciousness of parallel universes. In addition, due to the phenomenon of "2", if you don't solve yourself, others can solve your other self by killing you. In order to save your life, let's shoot the boy.

5. The same past but a different future has caused the psychological and memory problems of the ring killer. The most serious thing is that the two have the same breath, not only physically, but also in memory. Therefore, it is better to have a closed-loop policy, and there will be no worries in the future.

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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.