Open loop closed loop

Clovis 2022-04-22 07:01:02

First of all, from the point of view that Joe's feelings can act on the old Joe, it is not a parallel space. But old Joe enjoyed it for 30 years after closing the ring. If it wasn't for the parallel space, it wouldn't make sense. He should have encountered the same thing at the time.
The initial setting was that people could not kill people casually in the future, which led to the work of the ring messenger, and there was a reason for the continuous transmission of time and space. But when the killer went to catch old Joe, he blindly shot and killed Xu Qing just because the figure outside the window flickered. Could it be that the killer's thinking also came back at this time.
Old Joe came back to check the birth date and found three babies. The birth rate in the United States is really low. If thousands or hundreds of them are found, it is estimated that he needs to be busy.
Old Joe's love for Xu Qing made the closing ring that he should have faced calmly turned into a lost ring. The purpose of his return is very clear, to find the rain caller and get rid of it, so as to avoid Xu Qing from being killed. So he doesn't care about his own safety, which is why he did it despite struggling to kill the dance girl. But Joe is obviously not. After he lost the ring, he always wanted to kill old Joe so that he would not die. So the incomprehensible thing about Joe, who finally saw through the ending, shot and committed suicide is that he didn't want to save people, so why would he want to stop the Raincaller from growing up. Xu Qing had never met him, and old Joe was what he always wanted to kill, so whether the Raincaller was dead or alive had nothing to do with him. A man who has been working hard for his own life, finally committed suicide with a gun. The only reason can only be that he has feelings for Sara and Cid. So if the killer has feelings, he is already dead.
Cid has an Orphan Grudge version of maturity from the first conversation with Joe. This mature temperament makes people shudder. The acting of the child is quite remarkable.
In addition, the first time Joe used silver ingots for money was RMB. This is in America. Is the renminbi in circulation as an underground currency?

Trivia:
1. The director originally planned Joe to live in Paris in his old age, which is why Joe can learn French. But it turned out that they couldn't afford to shoot in Paris, and if they insisted, they would have to shoot the Paris scenes in New Orleans. So the location was changed to Shanghai, because Chinese investors were willing to cover their expenses in Shanghai.
2. Emily Blunt agreed to the filming invitation halfway through the script, and she didn't even know what her role was.

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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.