Anyway, let's talk about the movie first. This is the first Xiaojian movie I've watched. I had a slight impression of what he looked like before, but because I'm relatively face-blind, I didn't see any difference. Compared with everyone complaining that the makeup of this movie made him look out of shape, I think it's actually quite handsome. The subtitle version plus my poor comprehension ability, I didn't understand a lot of doubts. I recently downloaded the subtitle and translation, and finally I fully understand it.
Talk about a few stalks that came out of the second brush. The first is little Joe's background. When someone came to emily's house to arrest him, he hid in the tunnel with the children, and explained his past to the children. Mom was not by his side when little Joe was very young. He became confused on the way to escape, and an outsider gave him a looper gun, which gave him the power to "pursue the life he wanted", and then He has embarked on a road that is bound to be an endless cycle.
Little Joe's rotten life has been fully shown in the first half of the film. He is a rich but unconscionable illegal occupation, hanging around in nightclubs, living a life of no future with his friends, taking drugs, driving after drinking, With an empty expression in his eyes, he was lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling. Apart from bang~ killing people, it seemed that he could no longer find the meaning of life.
There are also some positive details, such as learning French seriously, practicing with the girl in the restaurant, secretly saving half of the income, and wanting to keep the ring for the future, so I took this money to France to live happily for 30 years. The dancer who is close to him has children, and he still wants to leave the money for her to take care of the children - once again, it shows that he still does not want his tragedy to happen to others in his heart, and it also alludes to the original intention of suicide at the end.
Old Joe is a realistic person. He betrayed his friends when he was young, and he also sealed the ring. He took money to Shanghai and squandered it. After a few years of squandering, he squandered it all. Relying on his good skills, he continued to work as a gangster. , Burning, killing and looting everywhere, the days are still rotten, and the radiant little Joe has become a bald old Joe in a blink of an eye.
Until one day when he was making trouble in a nightclub, he was punched a few times, and when he raised his eyes, he suddenly caught sight of Xu Qing. He laughed so lewdly that the girl gave him a middle finger, but he didn't run away, and finally got it. . Different from the dancer who was lying on her body and helping herself with eye drops and drugs, this Chinese wife helped her detox, chatting and reading books with her, and the two moved from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai to a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, where they lived in a bamboo and wooden house by the lake. Have a small day.
Old Joe knew that one day he would be sent back, but the new, beautiful life, a warmer and more practical life than before, made him addicted, and he began to regret why he chose this so easily in the first place A profession that will definitely be sealed. When the killer surrounded his house and killed his innocent wife, old Joe decided to give it a go to change his destiny. If the rainmaker didn't exist, he wouldn't have been sent back to seal the ring early, and he would still be the same. If I have the opportunity to live again, I will save myself and my wife.
With this thought in mind, he went back with all his might, brought down little Joe, ran away, confronted little Joe, and told him, "Your life is a piece of shit, and someone will enter your life in the future, Make your life more meaningful, for her, do you understand?" The inexplicable little Joe told him, this is my life, not yours, why should I marry that person, what do you do when you come back, and be killed by me Isn't everyone happy, I can still live my happy life in the future? Of course, little Joe wouldn't know, because his life may have been looped tens of thousands of times. From the day he picked up the gun, he no longer had the right to "live a meaningful life and live a peaceful life".
Until the old Joe forced the little Joe to kill the children, he still hoped to kill the old Joe so as to win back "his own life". Then he met emily, and his terrible son, after several conversations and the first time the little friend yelled "liar", he knew that emily was a good mother, she raised the little boy, and hoped that he would grow up in a healthy heart.
At the same time, old Joe was killing the other two children. When he killed the second child, he realized that it was the child of a dancing girl. I was abandoned like myself back then. But old Joe finally chose to kill other people's children for his own life, and at that moment he could no longer compare his heart.
The relationship between little Joe and emily was going very strangely. Emily told him after the smoke that he was tired of living in the city, tired of those people with empty eyes, remembering the mistakes he had made, and finally returned to the country Take good care of her son, because she doesn't want her own child to become such a hollow person in the future - this is also insinuating the little Joe beside him, I believe that when he heard these words, he wished he had such a good mother too .
The footage of little Joe playing with the children made me cry. He had a serious conversation with the children and laughed so happily. At that time, he didn't know that this was a dangerous child, but he didn't want the crazy old Joe to find him. Come to the door and kill the child. Little Joe, who has lived rotten for N years, still has hope for a better life in his heart.
Old Joe once again tried his best to get out of the looper's nest. When he was killing people with a machine gun, his eyes became very confused. I think he was hesitating whether he was doing the right thing. He believes that he is now Doing something meaningful, but what does that mean? Killing the rainmaker can be sure that little Joe will live on the same footsteps as before? ——Even if it is the same person, the mentality at different times is completely different, so after all, there are still two people, can you ask others to live according to their own ideas?
Old Joe came back to kill the children. For the sake of his own life, he could kill the people in the past world and remove any factors that might cause trouble in his future life. Old Joe thought that would be clean. At this time, little Joe, who witnessed everything, gave his own answer: if things go on, there will be another me. Another child without a mother, with confusion and hatred for the world, picked up a gun, lived a terrifying life with a bright surface and a corrupt inside, and had no end, completely lost track, and eventually turned to evil.
He knows that emily will love this child well, and tell the child mom loves you, calm down, it's gonna be okay when he is about to lose control. Little Joe thinks that with such a mother, the child will not become bad in the future. Instead of being desperate to control his own life, he wanted to open it, so he gave the little friend and the good mother a chance, he shot himself, and cleared himself and old Joe from this world, rainmaker No one else knows the secret. A good boy will grow up, and there is one less tragedy in this world.
Finally I can't help but think, huh, what does this mean? The healthy growth of a child will not affect other children who will become people like Joe. Maybe other people are not so lucky to meet Xu Qing in their lives, so they spend their lives aimlessly with empty eyes. Or enter this infinite loop.
Joe's era in the movie is the 2040s, not far from us, but none of us can be sure what the future will be like. Joe's world is full of indiscriminate killing of innocents, and there are not a few people who live a luxurious life like him. Superpowers take humans to the evil side, and the truth in life is getting less and less.
At this time, I was envious of Joe when he just went to the beach by himself. There is a scene where he was watching the scenery on the Bund and playing football with children in the lane. It was really a beautiful scene. It's a pity that people who are not enlightened are not enlightened, how to fool around and how to fool around.
Just pray that we all meet the person in our lives who "wake up" us. But bear in mind, no matter what kind of life, we strive for ourselves, but should not be built on the pain of others. Feel the mood of the people around you when you are doing things, and be a little more attentive when you are making important decisions. Although each of us is inevitably selfish and planning for ourselves, it's better to have such a string stretched than totally lost your mind.
Little Joe and old Joe are not perfect, but they both have their own backgrounds, their reasons for being this way, and they all have something we can learn from them. So overall, this movie feels good to me, not only because I think Xiaojian is handsome, but also because of what it reminds me of. Because I can't sacrifice myself to prevent possible tragedies, I admire those who can truly "heart to heart".
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Finally, I would like to praise Xiaojong's various efforts to shoot the looper. emily blunt said that Xiaojong spent a lot of time watching Laobu's films, and Xiaojong himself said that he downloaded Laobu's works as audios and listened to them repeatedly on his iPod, imitating Laobu's emphasis on speaking, because he had to make up like Laobu's, Xiaojong's face is covered with various membranes, and it takes three hours every morning to apply makeup before filming, which is really a lot of effort.
And in the interview, Xiaojong has always emphasized that this is the life of Lao Bu, and I am just a younger version, and I have to follow his appearance, characteristics and behavior. In fact, as a veteran + big-name old cloth, it should be respected by the younger generation. But after all, this is also a play of Xiao Jong, there is no need to express it in the style of Lao Bo, however, he is not neglected at all, and he does his job well, such a Jong is really too cute! All kinds of compliments!
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