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. Left with no other choice, Young Joe shot himself with his blunderbuss, thereby wiping Old Joe from existence and saving both Sara and Cid. Since all the members of Abe's played by Jeff Daniels gang were also eliminated by Old Joe, that means that the mother and her son will get to live their lives in peace without any fear of retribution. The key to Young Joe's success is keeping Sara alive.
When Old Joe and Young Joe were chatting at the diner, the former spouts off some rumors he's heard about the Rainmaker, one of them being that the criminal powerhouse watched his mother get shot. This was presumably the inciting event that led him to the dark side. Remember, even with Sara's parenting, there were times when Cid lost control of his power. Without her love and education giving him stability, he would have nothing reining him in, and he would become that feared criminal in the future.
Fortunately, Young Joe made the ultimate sacrifice, which, as he put it, broke the cycle, That, along with Old Joe gunning down Abe's gang, means ideally, Sara and Cid will live out their lives in peace. Sara can continue taking care of Cid, making sure he keeps his telekinetic powers under control. It won't be easy. Cid will probably still have the occasional tantrum, requiring Sara to hide in her closet vault until he calms down. Fortunately, Sara is determined to make sure he has a better childhood than she did, and now she has extra incentive to keep this up since she knows what will happen 30 years from now if he doesn't have the proper guidance.
Oh, and he'll also keep learning about math, literature, science and all the skills that a well-functioning adult should have at least a basic grasp on. It's the telekinesis control that's the priority, though. The problem with understanding Looper 's time travel is that the movie doesn't delve deeply into the rules.
This is to spare us from getting a headache, or as Abe put it, "fry your brain like an egg. Here's the problem. In Old Joe's timeline, he never went back in time. Young Joe is a Looper. Needless to say, Joe has issues. He drops designer drugs in his eyes all day, frequents prostitutes, etc. When Old Joe Bruce Willis arrives, Young Joe is confronted by a possible version of himself that understands the world much differently; Old Joe as seen in montage has been down the path Young Joe is fighting so fiercely to go down — Old Joe knows how empty it ultimately is, until you find love.
Real love. To Old Joe, the person responsible for taking what was his is someone named the Rainmaker, who is basically the all-powerful telekinetic Hitler of , controlling everything in society from the government to the citizenry to the mobs and their operations. Only, Old Joe has three names on a list flimsy intel — three children — who could be telekinetic Hitler, and therefore he must kill all three. Even when Cid inadvertently blows up a gatman Garrett Dillahunt , and Young Joe knows this kid is telekinetic Hitler, the compassion he sees Sara showing her son, and the effect it has, marks for Young Joe the difference between becoming men like him and baby-killing future him , and possibly becoming what Young Joe secretly always wanted to be: a better kind of man.
However, murder-spree Old Joe is too far gone to turn back. Looper , unfortunately, suffers this problem as well. The biggest issue, as always, is the multiverse factor: if a guy from the future comes to the past and starts mucking with history, it either A creates a separate timeline that runs parallel to the original one allowing for two versions of history , or B The actions in the past forever alter the flow of a single timeline, allowing for just one version of events.
Looper plays fast and loose with this time travel mechanic, at times relying on both single timeline and multiverse timeline approaches to push the story forward. For example: Old Joe still existing after he meets and affects Young Joe shows that multiple timelines are possible — but tricks like Young Joe carving messages in his arm that show up on Old Joe as scars would have us assume that there is one timeline that wherein the fate of one Joe is directly tied to the other.
Or is he open to remember several versions of history? Old Joe then jumps back to the past to change this course of events, and the movie we witness is therefore the alternate timeline where Old Joe escapes his execution. A version of history wherein Old Joe kills Sara and creates the Rainmaker is also a paradox. Old Joe cannot be the origin of the Rainmaker as we are told he is. In a climatic moment, Young Joe via voiceover describes seeing an unending cycle of time travel violence that creates monsters like the Rainmaker and Old Joe — and the only way to break it is suicide.
This tangential subplot to the film actually raises quite a few paradoxal issues. Young Joe realizes that if old Joe kills Cid, it will put the steps into place for Cid to become the Rainmaker, so he decides to shoot himself as a way to stop old Joe. But the question remains: what does the Looper film ending actually mean? And how can the Looper ending be explained?
In past sci-fi movies, the concept of time travel has usually been pretty loose with the logic and details. Take Back to the Future for example, where numerous paradoxes are exposed and ignored as multiple characters time travel with little to no repercussions. Instead, Looper presents a pretty straightforward time travel mechanism that really only allows for one main timeline… with the possibility of another one in the end or maybe more.
Basically, Looper ends with young Joe making an unselfish decision to take his own life as a means to save another. He has developed a love and fondness for Sara and Cid, despite realizing that Cid is most likely going to grow up to be the Rainmaker. Credit: This is Barry. We know that Cid already possesses power and anger, and there are hints that it's spurred by the loss of his actual mother.
Old Joe's intel flimsy as it is states that it was the Rainmaker who called for the retired loopers to start having their loops closed wholesale - and therefore was responsible for shattering Old Joe's happiness.
Old Joe's plan, then, is to infiltrate the past, locate the Rainmaker based on hospital records when he is a young boy, kill him, spare himself and, you know, maybe the world a lot of darkness and heartache.
Only, Old Joe has three names on a list flimsy intel - three children - who could be telekinetic Hitler, and therefore he must kill all three. Old Joe's ambition for personal satisfaction is exponentially worse than Young Joe's - as Young Joe eventually comes to see.
Young Joe has that vulnerable side and heart opened up by the hard-luck story of Cid and Sara - especially Cid, whose story of violence and loss at a young age is so much like Young Joe's own story. Even when Cid inadvertently blows up a gatman Garrett Dillahunt , and Young Joe knows this kid is telekinetic Hitler, the compassion he sees Sara showing her son, and the effect it has, marks for Young Joe the difference between becoming men like him and baby-killing future him , and possibly becoming what Young Joe secretly always wanted to be: a better kind of man.
However, murder-spree Old Joe is too far gone to turn back. When he finally tracks Young Joe to Sara's farm, it becomes clear that Old Joe's selfish ambition is the exact incident that ironically enough creates The Rainmaker; in Old Joe's timeline more on that later , rumor has it that as a boy, the Rainmaker saw his mother murdered by a looper and had part of his jaw shot off: horrific acts Old Joe nearly commits. But Old Joe's alteration of time means that there's a possibility for more than one path - so when Young Joe finds himself in a moment where his violent ways can't save the day, he makes a choice to not be like Old Joe and actually give up his all-important ambition to hold on to "what's his.
Kofi Outlaw former Editor-in-Chief, - has a B.
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