Looper (film)

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson and starring Bruce Willis, Joseph GordonLevitt, and Emily Blunt. In the film, time travel is invented by the year 2074 although it is immediately outlawed and is used by criminal organizations to send those they want killed into the past where they are killed by loopers assassins paid with silver bars strapped to their targets. Joe, a looper, encounters himself when his older self is sent back in time to be killed.

In 2044, 25yearold Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as a looper. Since technology in the future has made it almost impossible to successfully dispose of murdered bodies, the syndicates use time travel which was invented in 2074 and subsequently outlawed. Managed by a man sent from the future named Abe, loopers kill and dispose of victims sent back in time whose faces are hidden by a bag. They are paid with bars of silver strapped to the target. To prevent connections to the use of illegal time travel, when a looper is retired, his future self is sent back to 2044 as a target for his younger self, but with gold bars as a payment. This event is referred to as closing the loop and signals the end of a loopers contract. Failing to close the loop is punishable by execution.Joes best friend Seth, part of a minority that has manifested lowlevel telekinetic abilities, confides that he failed to close his own loop, and that his future self warned him of a mysterious lawless person called the Rainmaker who, in the future, will overthrow the five major crime bosses and end all the loopers contracts. Joe reluctantly hides Seth in his apartments secret floor safe, but the place is searched and Joe is taken to Abe by Kid Blue, one of Abes elite gangsters known as Gat Men. Given the choice of revealing Seths hiding place or forfeiting half of the silver he has hoarded, Joe betrays Seth. Abes men cut an address into Seths arm, then begin severing parts of his body, causing his older selfs body parts to disappear one by one and compelling him to go to the address, where he is then killed. Feeling guilty, Joe offers Suzie, a prostitute with whom he is friendly, half of his silver. ........

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