TAKE 1: One Man’s Opinion
…because
film is largely subjective
by Frederick William Springer
III
Looper
Release Date: 28 September 2012 Runtime: 119 Minutes
Review Date: 25 November 2012 Rating: 4 (of 6)
Looper is
different and interesting.
Make-up on Joseph Gordon-Levitt to make him appear as a
young version of Bruce Willis was well done.
In fact, if I wasn’t familiar with Gordon-Levitt, I would believe he
really looked that way. Sharing very
little screen time, it was also amusing to see that Gordon-Levitt adapted many
of Willis’s facial expressions, many of which weren’t even used by Willis
himself in this film, which makes me imagine Gordon-Levitt sitting and studying
old Willis flicks to get them down pat.
The identity of the ultimate villain, The Rainmaker, is
predictable as is the method The Rainmaker used to employ his success. Not that predictability is necessarily a bad
thing--one does want such things to be realistic within the context of the
story.
There is one fatal flaw that defies common sense, but
corrected would demise the entire storyline:
Knowing your employees might even have the slightest aversion to
eliminating their future selves, why not have someone else carry out the deed? Hypothetically, send future Looper A to present
Looper C to be killed. Then send future
Looper C to present Looper A for him to assassinate. Little to no sentimentality there and no
potential problems.
The logic to the film’s resolution is also off kilter. Present Joe imagines the outcome of the world
Future Joe came from as having been a result of things they are both currently
experiencing. That is nonfactual, as
we’ve seen a flashback/flashforward of how Present Joe originally became Future
Joe and nothing in that timeline was due to the course they are both on now. As such, Present Joe’s sentiment and
resulting solution are misguided and I imagine do not have the effect he
intended, though that is left up for the individual viewer to contemplate.
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