Looper 's temporal insanity could be another Terminator situation. Terminator 2: Judgement Day' s ending implied that the apocalyptic future filled with killer robots will never come to pass, but years later in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , we learned that Skynet's creation was merely delayed, not stopped. Even though past events were changed, the timeline still found a way of reverting back to its original course.
This could be what happens in the Looper world, and no matter what a time traveler does when Cid is a kid, he'll still grow up to be the Rainmaker. At this point, some of you will wisely point out that the difference between this new timeline and Old Joe's timeline, as well as the vision that Young Joe saw, is that Sara was dead in those.
With her alive, Cid won't be tempted to grab power and seek vengeance against the Loopers. That's a fair point, but it doesn't guarantee that he will grow up to be an upstanding citizen. Even though Sara survived, Cid still witnessed a lot of things not meant for a child's eyes He destroyed Jesse with his mind, he was caught in a car accident and he was struck by a bullet that nearly led to him killing his mother and Old Joe had the former not calmed him down.
These events may have been traumatizing enough that Cid will still grow up to be a bad seed, though maybe not as destructive as he was in the previous reality. Don't forget, this is also a world where things aren't exactly bright and shiny, at least in the United States. Poverty is at an all-time high, the police are controlled by these criminal organizations and it's easier than ever to score drugs. Assuming he ever leaves the farm, Cid will be exposed to the ugliness of modern society at some point, leading him down a bad path.
Sadly, that is something that can't be avoided, and it will be up to Cid himself, not anyone else, to decide how he wants to contribute to society. Looper is one of the more twisted time travel stories, and even after reading this feature, I'm sure many of you will continue puzzling over the movie's ending. That being said, despite all the concerns about timelines possibly repeating themselves, it looks like Cid can finally live his life Rainmaker-free.
As we stated earlier, Sara staying alive was the key. Cid still walked away with a injured jaw and saw more carnage than any person should, but because Young Joe killed himself and erased Old Joe from existence before he could pull the trigger, the boy can live out the rest of his childhood with his loving mother. Does this guarantee that Cid will grow up to be a good person? No, of course not. Hell, he may even still get involved with crime when he's a young man, whether he seeks it out willingly or gets wrapped up in it accidentally.
Still, with Sara's parenting, he stands a better chance of not becoming a telekinetic madman than he would have if he was alone and filled with fury. Plus, keep in mind that with telekinesis as enhanced as his, Rainmaker could conceivably have destroyed the world if he wanted to. And we can prove it. Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. You can renew your subscription or continue to use the site without a subscription. If you have questions about your account, please contact customer service or call us at This message will appear once per week unless you renew or log out.
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TimeShade TyA. Pure Evil Terms. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Evil Evil from the Past Scapegoat. With that in mind, it's time to revisit that final act, what it means, and what questions it raises for the film's fictional universe. This is the ending of Looper , finally explained.
In the world of Looper , time travel is invented in the s Naturally, like so many illegal things, time travel technology then falls under the purview of organized crime, who use it to circumvent the tracking technology of the future to get away with murder. Joe Joseph Gordon-Levitt is part of this murder machine, working in for a Kansas City syndicate as a "looper. The job is simple: Be at the scheduled place and time with your blunderbuss a simple shotgun and shoot the hooded figure that appears.
You take the bars of silver strapped to the target's back, then dump the body and cash in your payment. At some point, the syndicate will send a looper's future self back in time, and they will serve as their own past self's target.
You don't know that you've shot your future self until you see the gold bars strapped to the target's back. At this point, you have "closed your loop," and you cash in your gold and live out the rest of your days as happily as you can. It's all meant to be a clean and closed system, unless someone decides to break the rules.
Joe's life of killing, partying, and saving up his silver for a retirement in France is thrown into chaos when his friend and fellow looper Seth Paul Dano shows up at his house one night in a panic.
Seth was just tasked with closing his loop, but when his future self arrived he convinced Seth to let him go by telling him that the future is plagued by a new mob boss known as the Rainmaker, who's preparing to take total control of the syndicate by overthrowing every other boss and closing every loop.
Naturally, Seth is terrified. Joe hides Seth in his silver safe, but the syndicate's representative from the future, Abe Jeff Daniels brings Joe in and threatens him with the loss of half his saved silver if he doesn't give Seth up. Joe does, and the fleeing future Seth is killed when the syndicate begins carving pieces off of present Seth as punishment. Later, when Joe goes to kill his next target, the target spins and shields himself with the bars on his back.
They're gold. It's Joe's older self Bruce Willis , who knocks him out and flees. Joe was supposed to close his loop, but now his future self is on the run. Then the film shows us exactly why Joe is fleeing: In his future, he met a wonderful woman who saved him from drug addiction, only to watch her be murdered by the Rainmaker's men.
Joe goes back to his apartment, only to find Abe's henchman Kid Blue Noah Segan is pursuing him, so he ultimately sets a meeting with Old Joe at the diner where he used to go after each hit by carving the place into his own arm so it makes a scar for his future self to see. Old Joe explains that he stopped the closing of his own loop because the Rainmaker is wreaking havoc on the future, and that led to the death of his wife.
He received a set of numbers from a friend in the future which reveal the date of birth and hospital code of the Rainmaker, and he plans to use it to kill him as a child, changing the future and saving his wife.
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