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‘Looper’ is emerging director Rian Johnson’s third feature directorial effort after ‘Brick’ and ‘The
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Brothers Bloom’. His new film depicts America in the near future.
The year is 2044. America is in ruins from an economic collapse and social decay is rampant, with
organised crime particularly common. Time travel hasn’t been invented yet. But it will be in 30
years. It will be made illegal almost immediately, only harnessed by criminals to dump someone
they want killed into the past for specialised assassins known as Loopers to kill and dispose of.
The Looper is then paid with silver bars that are attached to the victim. The technology is so illegal
that the client usually wants to disassociate themselves from the Looper as much as possible and
will eventually send the Looper’s older self back in time to be killed. This is called, ‘closing the
loop’.
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sent back into time to be killed by present day Joe. Young Joe loses Future Joe and has to avoid
being hunted down by the very mafia he works for while trying to set things right with his future self.
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