In , the Rian Johnson-helmed Looper set up that situation when a retired assassin named Joe played by Bruce Willis traveled back 30 years to kill a child who would eventually grow up to be a ruthless criminal boss known only as the Rainmaker. This mission, unsurprisingly, complicates his younger self's played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt life, leading to a lot of shooting, cursing and explosions.
By the time Looper ended, it looked like Young Joe was successful in preventing the Rainmaker's rise to power. However, time travel is a complicated subject. In some tales, going back in time and changing certain events is an easy feat. In other cases, changing the past doesn't always mean that the future is significantly altered. So what's the deal with Looper?
Is the future brighter because the Rainmaker will never be "born," or will the young boy played by Pierce Gagnon still grow up to be a telekinetic monster? That's what this features aims to determine.
To start, let's recap what happened in the movie As young Seth played by Paul Dano learned from his older self, 30 years into the Looper world's future, the Rainmaker has seized power away from the five major bosses. This makes him the most powerful criminal in the county if not the entire country , both in terms of his telekinetic abilities and stature.
However, that isn't enough for the Rainmaker, as he's also closing out all the loops, i. Unfortunately for Old Joe, that resulted in his wife being gunned down when he was taken. Granted, he expected to be killed eventually because his loop closed, but he didn't think his wife would be lost in the process.
Desperate to prevent the only person he ever loved from meeting her cruel fate, he overpowered his kidnappers and went back 30 years to kill the Rainmaker as a child, time travel repercussions be damned. Old Joe successfully arrived back in the present time period, and after doing his best to make sure his younger self wouldn't interfere, he set out to kill all the children in that city with the Rainmaker's birthday to cover his bases.
Meanwhile, young Joe, having seized a portion of Old Joe's map, traveled to the farm where Cid, the young Rainmaker, was being raised by his mother, Sara played by Emily Blunt. This explains how he's able to wipe out all his competition in the future; he just tears them apart with his mind. Eventually Old Joe made his way to the farm, and Young Joe and Sara did their best to protect Cid, whose jaw is grazed by a bullet during the attack.
This struggle culminates with Sara willing to sacrifice herself so her son can escape and Young Joe desperately trying to stop his older self, but unable to get close enough due to his injured leg. He also saw in his mind that Sara dying would set Cid on a path of angriness and loneliness.
The Rainmaker's path, a circle going round and round. It revolves around "present-day" contract killers called "loopers" hired by criminal syndicates from the future to terminate victims whom they send back through time. We see in the movie that not just "Loopers" and people sent to disappear are sent to the past. We saw that Abe was sent back from the future to hire Loopers and keep an eye on that end of things. In the end Sara convinces Cid that she is his mother and it was her "sister" who was killed accidentally by his tantrum.
With a few simple steps you can change your Netflix region to a country like Australia and start watching Australian Netflix, which includes Looper. Eye drops are used as drugs and the city's run by a mobster from the future Jeff Daniels. Once loopers hit 30 years past the date they began their first job, they are sent back into the past and are killed by their younger selves. The movie takes place in and , both of which look like plausible variations of the American present, and then there are a few scenes set in a futuristic Shanghai.
Looper's full name is Looper Windley. Looper runs a shop of art supplies in Ember. He lived from to? It is assumed that he went to school and at the age of twelve picked an unknown job from the bag. At the height of his career, Bruce Willis was one of the highest-earning actors on the planet. For those of you who have seen Looper or just don't care about spoilers, enjoy!
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Community Connect. People Making a Difference. Points of Progress. A Christian Science Perspective. He believes his mother is dead. Through his experience with young Joe, Cid learns Sara is his actual mother.
Who wrote Looper? Rian Johnson. Why do loopers have to close the loop? So when a loop is being closed, the looper has to kill his own future-self.
So when a contract with a looper comes to an end, the present looper kills his future self in present which is sent from future.
When did Looper come out? October 3, Germany. How is this end? Rosenthal and written by Brooks McLaren. The film was released on July 13, , by Netflix.
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