LOOPER
The sci-fi movie Looper (2012) gives us a perspective on society, the nuclear family and the effects of environment through a futuristic view. The classic nuture versus nature point of view.
Directed and written by Rian Johnson, the movie is set in the future in the year 2044. The mob is now using time travel to eliminate people they find as troublesome. They send people back in time to be murdered finding it more efficient, since DNA cannot be tracked, etc; back to the actual perpetrators. But the reasons why certain people are being eliminated is not quite so clear.
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in the year 2044 has become one of the Loopers. They are assigned to wait for the human being sent back in time, so they can, in effect, murder them in the past as soon as they show up. Hired guns, so to say.
Part of the deal in becoming a Looper is that one day you will murder your future self. Thereby, closing the loop of your life. Then you have 30 years and a huge payoff to live your life until it is time for your life to end.
An older Joe (Bruce Willis) in the year 2074 has decided his life is too good for it to end. He has just started to really live life. So, he highjacks his way back into the past in an attempt to change it all.
As future Joe fights his way to change the past and insure a more promising future, he meets his younger self who isn't quite convinced that the future Joe has it all figured out. The cat and mouse game of future Joe trying to reason with present Joe about how things need to change and how corrupt the system is begins.
As Joe is trying to track down his future self, he meets a mother, Sara (Emily Blunt) and her son, Cid (Pierce Gagnon), who both have special gifts in telepathy. Joe realizes there is a precarious connection with his older self to the son of this woman. Joe then makes it his mission to save her son from his own future self.
The connections of the past and future in this story line are expertly thought out and weaved back together keeping you on the edge of your seat until the very end of the movie. Each detail is brought in just as you are asking, "But I don't understand."
You realizes why Joe is the only one who can understand the big picture, because of his own broken family, addiction filled and abandonment background. Only he can solve the puzzle and make the right choices that may just save society as we know it. Or as the year 2044 knows it.
You will be constantly guessing what is going to happen next. You will also be surprised as each piece of the puzzle in the story comes together. Another great movie plot filled with amazing actors. A must see!
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