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. He killed his older self and lived the next decades of his life as a criminal and junkie until he met his wife and cleaned up.
It was only after she died that he went back in time to try to change the past. Let's now fast-forward to near the end of the movie, where Joe realized that if Old Joe killed Sara, the Rainmaker would be created.
Don't forget, Cid's jaw was injured near the end of the story, and the Rainmaker having a prosthetic jaw was another rumor that Old Joe heard back in his era. In case you missed it, we now have two separate realities where the end result is the Rainmaker's creation.
In one timeline, Joe had nothing to do with the Rainmaker, meaning that someone else murdered Sara and hurt Cid's jaw. In another timeline that never came to pass, Old Joe is directly responsible for Cid becoming evil.
So even though the odds are likelier that Cid won't become the Rainmaker since Sara is still taking care of him, it's not guaranteed. This also begs the question of who killed Sara in Old Joe's timeline. Was it a common criminal or did another Looper travel back to the past just like Old Joe? That might explain why Rainmaker was wiping out all the Loopers. On the surface, it looked like he was just taking care of loose ends, but maybe he also used this as an excuse to exact revenge against people like the person who murdered his mother and left him an orphan.
Looper 's temporal insanity could be another Terminator situation. Terminator 2: Judgement Day' s ending implied that the apocalyptic future filled with killer robots will never come to pass, but years later in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , we learned that Skynet's creation was merely delayed, not stopped.
Even though past events were changed, the timeline still found a way of reverting back to its original course. This could be what happens in the Looper world, and no matter what a time traveler does when Cid is a kid, he'll still grow up to be the Rainmaker.
At this point, some of you will wisely point out that the difference between this new timeline and Old Joe's timeline, as well as the vision that Young Joe saw, is that Sara was dead in those.
With her alive, Cid won't be tempted to grab power and seek vengeance against the Loopers. That's a fair point, but it doesn't guarantee that he will grow up to be an upstanding citizen. But you have to admit that the man knows how to weave a cinematic tale. And while Johnson dabbled in documentary and television with a few stints behind the camera with shows like Terriers and Breaking Bad , Johnson might have actually been at his very best with the often-forgotten, but quite successful science-fiction thriller Looper.
The film, which blends action thriller beats with some high-concept sci-fi worldbuilding, was met with rave reviews, a strong box office pull, and inclusion on several best-of-the-year lists. However, even almost 10 years later, much of its plot, meaning, and even ending remains a mystery to many. That being said, to say that Looper is any sort of straightforward narrative would be a lie. As its title suggests, the film is filled with many time-traveling loops that require a lot of attention and thinking to keep up with all the moving variables.
So… consider yourself warned! As a looper, he primarily disposes of victims who have been sent back in time by the same crime syndicate from Joe is very good at his job and has built up quite a stockpile of silver bars which he spends on women and drugs.
This old Joe played by Bruce Willis attacks young Joe and escapes. The two eventually meet, and old Joe tells young Joe about a future mob kingpin called the Rainmaker. Young Joe and old Joe tussle, and young Joe ends up with the map which he eventually uses to find his way to a farmhouse, where he meets Sara and her young son Cid.
Sara reveals that Cid has extremely strong telekinetic powers, and young Joe deduces that he will one day ultimately become the Rainmaker. A Christian Science Perspective. Monitor Movie Guide. Monitor Daily. Photo Galleries. About Us. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. See our other FREE newsletters. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Select free newsletters: The Weekender.
Today's Highlights. Christian Science Perspective. This is seen as a perfect kill system because: Law Enforcement in has no corpse to pin on the mob. No corpse, no crime. The looper, whose only kernel of knowledge is that he briefly killed strangers for a future mob, ultimately offs the only person in to witness these killings himself , leaving NO ONE who can tie the future mob to a crime no body, no killer, no crime.
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