{"id":11588,"date":"2012-10-06T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:56:32","slug":"loopers-a-time-travel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=11588","title":{"rendered":"Loopers, a Time Travel Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOOPER - Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iQuhsmtfHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a sucker for time travel stories. Ever since I read Jack Finney\u2019s <em>Time and Again,<\/em> I\u2019ve been hooked.\u00a0 So when I read that a time travel movie called <em>Loopers <\/em>would be out at the end of September, I marked it on my calendar as a must see.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the premise: It\u2019s the middle of the twenty-first century. Time travel hasn\u2019t been invented yet. But thirty years in the future, it hasn\u2019t only been invented, it\u2019s illegal and only the mob has use of it.\u00a0 So when they want to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun waits to perform the execution and get rid of the body. The victim usually has a supply of silver bars strapped to his back, payment for the kill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0330687\/bio\">Joseph Gordon Levitt<\/a>\u00a0 plays the younger Bruce Willis, Joe, one of these executioners. I remember him from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1375666\/\"><em>Inception<\/em><\/a>, another movie that appealed to my enjoyment of the weird and the strange.\u00a0 Bruce Willis, of course, needs no introduction and he\u2019s terrific in the role as Old Joe.<\/p>\n<p>The paradox that most time travel pundits tell you can\u2019t happen in a story happens here and is brilliantly executed: Old Self (Bruce) meets Young Self (Joseph). The initial confrontation is one of the most riveting scenes in the movie and takes place in what looks like an updated version of the old hamburger joint down the road. Old Self remembers what happens and has happened on various time lines to Young Self. But as he explains, when certain choices are made, those memories for him either become foggy or shockingly clear, depending on what the choice is.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the first half of the movie, there are subtle references to TK mutants \u2013 telekinetic individuals whose talents don\u2019t seem to extend much beyond levitating coins. (But hey, I\u2019d like to be able to levitate a spot of dust!) Then a woman enters the picture, a young woman and her son who live on a farm. I won\u2019t give any spoilers here, but this part of the movie feels like another movie altogether until the dots are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are plot flaws in the movie. But they don\u2019t occur to you until you\u2019ve left the theater, \u00a0and they are similar to the flaws in <em>Inception.<\/em> In any story that involves travel through dreams (<em>Inception<\/em>) or travel through time (<em>Loopers<\/em>), or in any story for that matter, that involves something other than consensus reality, the <em>rules <\/em>have to be established. The writer has to spell out what can and can\u2019t be done within a particular reality or world.<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron does this superbly in <em>Avatar<\/em>; Ridley Scott excels at this \u00a0in <em>Blade Runner <\/em>and<em> Alien; Spielberg <\/em>pegs it in E.T. The flaw with <em>Loopers, <\/em>\u00a0I think, is that the script tries to explain too much about how different choices create different timelines, different probabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, this is what happens when you go to a psychic for a reading. Assuming the person actually has psi abilities, there\u2019s an element of interpretation for the psychic in that he or she must be able to translate images, impressions, visions, for the client, in a way that makes sense. In the context of life, these interps can be perplexing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this very thing that intrigues me about <em>Loopers<\/em>. Interpretation. What the writer\/director did with this movie is very much in line with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seth-Speaks-Eternal-Validity-Soul\/dp\/1878424076 \"> Seth <\/a>books, similar in some ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120148\/\"><em>Sliding Doors<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>We exercise our free will, we make choices, and those choices have very real repercussions in terms of what we experience, of who we are and who we become.\u00a0 And based on that, our decisions are often moments of epiphany.\u00a0 And the ultimate decision in this movie is a shocker I didn\u2019t see coming. This movie will be one I watch again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019m a sucker for time travel stories. 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