Looper why close the loop

It makes much more sense than letting people from the past learn that time travel will exist and killing then afterwards Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. SE : In an interview with Slashfilm , the director, Rian Johnson, addresses this: Why is it essential for a looper to close his own loop?

Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Yeah, I think with this film it is best not to bother asking questions as the answers just aren't there. That would seem like a problem — hmmmm. As it's stated it's not really a job for forward thinking people as you can see when each Looper is shown celebrating his loop closing as if it's the biggest promotion possible.

The also know for sure when they are going to die which means they never have to worry about it for at least the next 30 years. For certain individuals Loopers it's sex and drugs and partying non stop until then and that is the best life possible for them.

I mean they commit suicide as they have already killed themselves. KevinHowell Also what difference would it make if somebody say X, killed you at year 0 and then 10 years later you kill X, X would have still killed you at year 0 and everything would be fine — hmmmm. This is a good example of how Looper's premise is shaky in terms of logistics -- too many unanswerable questions, such as: Wouldn't it be better to have the FIRST person each looper kills be the looper's future self?

Shiz Z. Yeah, I got another one. Why bother with all the time travel madness in the first place? Don't tell me anyone could identify old Joe and pursue them if they just put him into a large furnace instead of a time machine right in the future, they didn't have any problem kidnapping him and killing his wife with a good old gunshot anyway.

IIRC the movie establishes either from Abe or from Joe's narration, I forget which that in the future, there's some technology that lets the government know when anyone dies. Young Joe is a Looper. He's had a messed up past, no real parents, and had his lessons on life given to him by a man from the future who handed him a gun and taught him to kill. Needless to say, Joe has issues.

He drops designer drugs in his eyes all day, frequents prostitutes, etc. But Young Joe also has heart, studies French, dreams of traveling to "better, more sophisticated" places than Kansas, and gets all vulnerable about childhood and parenting with his prostitute lady friend Piper Perabo Somewhere in that stoic hitman there's a heart - though often it gets buried beneath the selfish ambition to "get his" in life, no matter what the cost.

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 travel - Old Joe knows how empty it ultimately is until you find love. Real love. Old Joe had it for a brief stint of time until his past came back to haunt him Loopers' deaths are predetermined, remember?

Old Joe is fighting for love - and he too wants to "get his," no matter what the cost. 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.

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.

The way it works is the Looper's future self is sent to the past the present from the movie's perspective and the present looper kills themself. They then go on living their life until 30 years later when they're grabbed and sent back and killed. When a person is sent back they are usually masked, the loopers usually shoot the second they see someone appear. It also seems to be a part of the job to not look at who they just killed.

There's a conversation in the movie about the future bosses closing out the loops. It's never mentioned that Abe actually decides when a loop is closed, or have any say in it at all. It was told that in the future the bad guy the rainmaker took over and started closing loops.

We just see the part where the Rainmaker took over and started closing ALL of the loops. It's not alluded to though that Abe makes any decisions on when a loop is closed, he just manages the loopers to make sure everything goes without a hitch and that they close their own loop.

Like DForck42 already answered on how a Looper contract works, one who chooses the Looper profession also chooses to kill himself somewhere in future and to have a rich life from that moment on for only 30 more years. On your question update, taking the Abe example: in the movie, it is never implied that Abe makes decisions on closing loops.

But suppose he did, then the answer is very simple: he just has to remember to send that Looper back in time. It surely is his own decision; all he needs is a calendar. Sign up to join this community.

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