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ellestraMondays are not good days at work (even without the whole Monday thing) and today it was also raining since with drizzle alternating with real rain. And, although, the day was pretty warm the cold nights combined with rained made it feel like a real autumn day even though leaves are barely changing colours yet. I knew it was going to be this way so I decided to do the whole birthday thing during the weekend.
On of the things I did was going to the cinema. I've been planning to see a movie for a long time and just postponing it over and over again. But this time I decide I just have to do it. For birthday's sake. So I went to see Looper because I saw so many conflicting reviews I wanted to decide for myself.
When my parents asked me the next day (that I spent skyping with my family) what it was about I told them Bruce Willis travelled in time but then I realised that was 12 Monkeys. This time he was a B plot. This movie was about JGL not travelling in time. And I could nitpick it but then I could also explain it as it made prefect sense in a way but the important part was that it was fun.
I liked the future of loopers that is like the whole world became a bad neighbourhood and the social structures seem to be in complete shamble. I wondered how come in 30 years it rebound so the law can enforce both time travel ban and find every murder victim. It didn't look like police state much - Bruce Willis was still a gangster.
I loved the whole TK promise and the kid going the whole It's a Good Life on whoever angered him. It was cool visually but both made sense in the story and felt like a cheap shot with including superpowers in the mix.
I'm pretty sure Kid Blue was young Abe. I kept thinking that most of their problems would unhappen if they finally killed him. And then it was too late. I'm not even sure he died really.
The hardest part was the understanding how time travel works in this universe. It doesn't nullifies whatever future versions did so far just catches up with them in real time. It doesn't make much sense but it is at least consistent. It's like the future versions became quantum flux of all their possible pasts with the one they lived being most clear until their past selves do something and that past becomes fixed. It took me some time to get and then it took me some time to get why Rainmaker became himself in the world with no Old!Joe coming for him because the end showed a perfect reason for him to hate all loopers and killing them (Young!Joe even tells the story about wanting to kill all the men who wronged him and his mother). But then I read someone explaining that before Young!Joe he didn't accept Sara as his mother and would probably kill her eventually and turn bad. And then I thought that maybe in different versions there were different loopers who tried to kill him. In the end what matters is that Young!Joe decided not to accept the version his future self created and it did matter to Sara and her son.
I liked how Bruce Willis became villain of the story. Killing children just because he wasn't ready to give up his life. He was so bent on having it exactly as he did so unable to give up his happiness, not even to save his wife that he became a monster his younger self despised so much he decided to sacrifices himself even though we saw the same selfishness in him before.
I think that the best part of this story was showing the fallacy of changing the future by travelling to the past. If it is changeable you by default introduce so many uncontrollable variables that what you create won't be what you intended. And this is why the movie was worth watching.
Emily Blunt was awesome. JGL make-up was horrifying - he looked like a botched plastic surgery victim. Bruce Willis was badass. Garret Dillahunt showed us he didn't lose his ability to play creepy kickass. Fun was had.
On of the things I did was going to the cinema. I've been planning to see a movie for a long time and just postponing it over and over again. But this time I decide I just have to do it. For birthday's sake. So I went to see Looper because I saw so many conflicting reviews I wanted to decide for myself.
When my parents asked me the next day (that I spent skyping with my family) what it was about I told them Bruce Willis travelled in time but then I realised that was 12 Monkeys. This time he was a B plot. This movie was about JGL not travelling in time. And I could nitpick it but then I could also explain it as it made prefect sense in a way but the important part was that it was fun.
I loved the whole TK promise and the kid going the whole It's a Good Life on whoever angered him. It was cool visually but both made sense in the story and felt like a cheap shot with including superpowers in the mix.
I'm pretty sure Kid Blue was young Abe. I kept thinking that most of their problems would unhappen if they finally killed him. And then it was too late. I'm not even sure he died really.
The hardest part was the understanding how time travel works in this universe. It doesn't nullifies whatever future versions did so far just catches up with them in real time. It doesn't make much sense but it is at least consistent. It's like the future versions became quantum flux of all their possible pasts with the one they lived being most clear until their past selves do something and that past becomes fixed. It took me some time to get and then it took me some time to get why Rainmaker became himself in the world with no Old!Joe coming for him because the end showed a perfect reason for him to hate all loopers and killing them (Young!Joe even tells the story about wanting to kill all the men who wronged him and his mother). But then I read someone explaining that before Young!Joe he didn't accept Sara as his mother and would probably kill her eventually and turn bad. And then I thought that maybe in different versions there were different loopers who tried to kill him. In the end what matters is that Young!Joe decided not to accept the version his future self created and it did matter to Sara and her son.
I liked how Bruce Willis became villain of the story. Killing children just because he wasn't ready to give up his life. He was so bent on having it exactly as he did so unable to give up his happiness, not even to save his wife that he became a monster his younger self despised so much he decided to sacrifices himself even though we saw the same selfishness in him before.
I think that the best part of this story was showing the fallacy of changing the future by travelling to the past. If it is changeable you by default introduce so many uncontrollable variables that what you create won't be what you intended. And this is why the movie was worth watching.
Emily Blunt was awesome. JGL make-up was horrifying - he looked like a botched plastic surgery victim. Bruce Willis was badass. Garret Dillahunt showed us he didn't lose his ability to play creepy kickass. Fun was had.
