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Telling stories of human nature with sci-fi gimmicks
Aubree 2022-04-22 07:01:02
I watched "Ring Messenger" today, and I didn't think it was as difficult to understand as everyone said. Maybe at the beginning, I really didn't know what to say, and I couldn't even understand what "looper" was doing and what kind of story it had even after reading the subtitles. However, when the male protagonist himself falls into the pursuit of his future self and looks for the "Rain Caller", it is actually understandable. In fact, you can completely ignore the time travel emphasized in the plot. Personally, I think that it is completely the sweat medicine given by the screenwriter to the audience. Only the hero said at the end, "I saw a mother who would rather die for her child, and a man can kill for his lover." Then the hero committed suicide. To put it bluntly, it is a story about using high technology to tell human nature.
Extended Reading
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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.
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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.