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rms said:
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You asked about a different film on the previous page, and I thought perhaps you were re-posting your question.

I liked the premise, narrative, acting, and effects of Looper. I thought it was pretty good all around; I'm a fan of Rian Johnson's work. Also, the time-travel sequences were very well-done, probably because Shane Carruth worked on them.
 
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The whole new level of stupidity. Some dialogue and scenes are just astounding, magnificent!
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That's some AK you got there, buddy



"IRA voice." "IRA VOICE??? They're terrorists Faysal!"

Good enough acting. Well put together movie.
 
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Einherjar86 said:
Nope. You mean the Stephen King novel, right?
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Yeah, kind of felt the movie stole from that plot..pretty similar in a way, family on the run with a child with incredible telekinetic powers..but Looper, the ending sort of ruined the entire time travel for me, wouldn't you agree?


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Seemed kind of rational, or at least movie-believable until then, but once he killed himself, wouldn't that erase any future version of him coming back, and then the entire storyline would have changed since he never would have met, future him?
 
There's an interview somewhere with Shane Carruth (the writer/director of the movie Primer, who also consulted on the time travel sequences in Looper) where he admits that time travel results in logical paradoxes that cannot be effectively rendered in traditional narrative format. In Primer we have characters miraculously appearing and going into catatonic states; Carruth explains these as the only way he can think of to try and grasp the paradoxical effects of time travel on a human subject. Essentially, people's minds stop working the way they're "supposed to."

I think that with Looper we have to concede a bit to the narrative's attempt at representation; the way I personally see it is that if we understand our place (as an audience) as being contemporaneous with the actual characters and events happening within the movie's diegetic frame (i.e. setting, but more specific - the time, place, environment, specifics of what is represented), then we might say that after the film concludes, logically the protagonist no longer exists, making it impossible to conceive of the film's narrative "loop"; but if that character was actually caught in a kind of loop, repeating the same events over and over, then we might admit that we simply watched the final revolution of the chain. I agree that it logically runs into some problems; but in my opinion, that's what makes it so much fun.
 
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