It sounds like a fantasy, but maybe it's something that is likely to happen in this world, but we haven't lived in that world yet, and don't care about that world for the time being. In fact, this idea and idea is what most people think, seeing the trees but not the forest, that led writer-director Rian Johnson to write and direct this movie, at least that's what I think.
Looper's seemingly time-travelling film has many professional film critics puzzled, because they feel that the film faces a large number of paradoxes (including the famous grandmother's paradox), and they try to figure out this time-travel. What kind of theory is it, through the efforts to change the past to create the fatalism of the existing future, such as "The Terminator", or change the past, the future will also change, such as "Back to the Future" parallel space-time theory .
In fact, the wonderfulness of this movie has gone beyond the so-called sci-fi category. It tells the inner world of a young killer Joe - the awakening of conscience and humanity through the theme story. JOE is an outcast who is taken in by a gangster killer and becomes a professional Looper. The 25-year-old has become numb to the daily killing life, and the days of drunken life and dreams make him tired. Therefore, he hopes to realize his dream as soon as possible, that is, to save enough money to travel and live in France one day. However, when the day finally came when he could retire by killing the old version of himself from the future, everything changed. It's not that he doesn't want to kill the old self, but the old self has no purpose in returning to thirty years ago (in order to save the Chinese wife who was killed by the gang, a woman he fell in love with in Shanghai who changed his fate for the rest of his life) . Therefore, the young Joe lost his chance against the old Joe and he was chased by other loopers himself. JOE thinks that he has to kill his old self before he can live a real dream retirement travel life, until he knows from his old self that all the loopers in the future world will be replaced by a man called the rainmaker. ), and he himself will not exist. And this guy called the Rainmaker was just a 10-year-old in their world today 30 years ago.
At the end of the movie, when Joe faced his old age and had to kill the 10-year-old rainmaker in order to save his wife, he had to make a final decision of conscience, that is, to change this vicious circle of retribution and sacrifice himself. Only in this way can he ensure that the 10-year-old rainmaker will not run on the track of revenge for losing his father and mother, and grow up to become a villain who kills without blinking an eye.
As JOE said at the end of the movie, when you see a mother who can sacrifice herself for the sake of her child, and a husband who can take risks to save his wife's life, if he can sacrifice himself, he can change everything in the future, including social humanity, He would rather do it. From Joe's self-reflection to sacrifice, the cycle is like a short but great life.
In fact, what the movie wants to tell us is that life is a cycle. In this cycle from birth to death, how a person will act, how to find the inner conscience and moral yardstick, is the hope of mankind. Looper, the ring messenger, tells the story of the vicious cycle of life after life, the cycle of retribution and karma, through Buddhist classics. Such a film is just a technology film, under the brand of time travel, and influences A drama film about the viewer's conscience of life. If a movie can move people's hearts through special effects, through theory, and through stories, it will be the most successful.
The part that touched me the most was when the young mother said to Joe that when the young self left her children behind and lived in the midst of a drunken life and men, all she saw was in the eyes of men This kind of loss prompted her to return to the child's side, and use all her mother's love to make her child no longer lose when he grows up. Her words brought tears to my eyes. What a mother can change is a man's emotional world and his future, and this man is likely to have different reactions and influences on society. Although most people know the greatness of mother's love, few people think of the penetrating power and life-long influence of mother's love on men. Asian mothers should pay more attention to their emotional world and spiritual growth instead of paying more attention to their children's studies, because their studies may change their lives, but their spiritual and emotional maturity can change them. destiny and future.
Rather than saying that this movie is the best sci-fi film about the paradox of time this year, it is better to say that the story of this movie is actually very moving. If compared to other similar time travel movies like "Twelve Monkeys", "Terminator", "Back to the Future", etc., it is not to play with technical special effects, but to make these time travel special effects as storytelling For audiences who don't like sci-fi movies, this is a movie that may make them fall in love.
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