A gangster film with a quantum-mechanical space-time view

Maiya 2022-04-20 09:01:05

The space-time view in this is more difficult to understand. The usual space-time view holds that the past and the future cannot be changed, so time travel will create paradoxes.

The space-time view in the movie believes that the past and the future are intertwined, the present can affect the future, and the future can also affect the present. No matter where and when you come from, you can choose. Of course, the parallel world can also make sense. Anyway, the current theoretical physics is similar to nonsense.

The rest is the plot of the gangster movie, which is nothing more than saying that impulse is the devil, murder is wrong, and when is the time for retribution, only love and self-redemption (sacrifice?) are the way out.

If you understand this concept of time and space, you will find that its logic is precise and memorable.

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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.