So You Created A Time Looper Analysis
So You Created a Time Loop: A Time Traveler's Analysis of Looper
WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS TO COME. If you haven't yet seen Looper, then you shouldn't be here. And, if possible, you should travel back to the start of the weekend and tell your past self to catch the next showing. It lost the box office to Hotel Transylvania. Seriously? Trust us: It'll be worth your, err... time.
DISCLAIMER: We are not here to ruin anyone's movie-going fun. We greatly enjoyed Looper. But we are here to fry your brain like an egg. It's kind of our thing. A detailed analysis of Looper's time travel whys and wherefores is to follow. Just keep in mind that delving into the details is one reason we love time travel movies, so don't take our showcasing of inevitable …show more content…
Because sending someone to the past creates a divergent timeline, the act of sending a looper to the past to "close their loop" actually creates the loop in question.
Additionally, having the loopers kill themselves, and giving them knowledge of when and where that event takes place, compounds issues with the time loop the gangsters are hoping to destroy.
We see throughout the film that the future can be reworked when a person has the right information -- this is the whole premise of Old Joe's actions. In Timeline C, he closes his own loop, gains the knowledge of when that will happen, and uses that knowledge to escape from Young Joe in Timeline D. The question is: Why would you knowingly provide time travelers with the information of their own futures?
Obviously, the mobsters in Looper don't have degrees in theoretical physics, because they would have realized a quick and easy solution to this issue: make the loopers kill one another.
Imagine it's a typical day for Seth. He heads out to his tarp in the canefields. A target appears with a bag on his head. Joe shoots him and collects his pay. The
WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS TO COME. If you haven't yet seen Looper, then you shouldn't be here. And, if possible, you should travel back to the start of the weekend and tell your past self to catch the next showing. It lost the box office to Hotel Transylvania. Seriously? Trust us: It'll be worth your, err... time.
DISCLAIMER: We are not here to ruin anyone's movie-going fun. We greatly enjoyed Looper. But we are here to fry your brain like an egg. It's kind of our thing. A detailed analysis of Looper's time travel whys and wherefores is to follow. Just keep in mind that delving into the details is one reason we love time travel movies, so don't take our showcasing of inevitable …show more content…
Because sending someone to the past creates a divergent timeline, the act of sending a looper to the past to "close their loop" actually creates the loop in question.
Additionally, having the loopers kill themselves, and giving them knowledge of when and where that event takes place, compounds issues with the time loop the gangsters are hoping to destroy.
We see throughout the film that the future can be reworked when a person has the right information -- this is the whole premise of Old Joe's actions. In Timeline C, he closes his own loop, gains the knowledge of when that will happen, and uses that knowledge to escape from Young Joe in Timeline D. The question is: Why would you knowingly provide time travelers with the information of their own futures?
Obviously, the mobsters in Looper don't have degrees in theoretical physics, because they would have realized a quick and easy solution to this issue: make the loopers kill one another.
Imagine it's a typical day for Seth. He heads out to his tarp in the canefields. A target appears with a bag on his head. Joe shoots him and collects his pay. The