Line #40 Fridge/Looper


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3	* A meta example -- on the Blu Ray edition, the menu has multiple inter-cut shots from the movie. If you watch it long enough for it to [[MythologyGag loop]], however, you'll probably notice [[ShownTheirWork it matches the movie's storyline]]. It starts with Young Joe's timeline (primarily focusing on collecting silver bars, executing targets, seeing Sara stroke Cid's foot, etc.), but watching until it returns to the start has it swapped out for Old Joe's timeline (focusing on finding the gold bars, the retirement montage, having his wife stroke his foot, etc.).
4	* You would think Old Joe would be able to shoot a mother and child running across a clear field, especially after the scene where he guns down an entire organization of criminals. However, this could be attributed to Old Joe's mental state being a storm of conflicting emotions; the love of Cid and Sarah of his past self vs the rapidly vanishing memory of his future self's wife.
5	* Abe says he took in Joe after the kid was found trying to rob a mob-controlled watch shop. Joe's always carrying a fob watch, even in the future. Where do you think he got it?
6	* The instant Young Joe meets Sara, Old Joe's memory starts getting incredibly foggy, to the point that he has to actively think very hard for several seconds to even recall the first time he saw his wife. What was it he said to Joe in the diner? "The less likely that future becomes, the foggier [his] memory gets"? So the instant Joe meets Sara, the future's pretty much changed irrevocably.
7	* This story isn't just a time loop about Young/Old Joe. It's also a time loop about the Rainmaker's StartOfDarkness. It starts when Old Joe kills his mom. He holds a grudge against the Loopers for 30 years. He takes over the crime world, including the Loopers. Then he closes all the loops. Not just for revenge, but also to make it so his mom wouldn't have died. The Rainmaker had the exact same motivations with his mom as Old Joe had with his wife.
8	* Sid is a super-powered child who is being raised on a Kansas farm by a parent who believes that if he's raised correctly, he won't be corrupted by his powers and will instead benefit mankind. This is the same origin story as Superman.
9	* The criminal organization from the future keeps using the gold and silver paid to the Loopers over and over again. Think about it. They take the silver and gold from the future off the bodies of the people they just killed, give it to Abe, who pays them fair market value for it. Abe then just hangs on to it while it takes the slow path back to the future to be re-used again, or he regularly jumps up to the future, drops off all the gold and silver, gets his marching orders, and jumps back to the present day. Gold and silver is most likely going to be of much greater value in the future, no one is getting ripped off since the Loopers are paid whatever the current spot price is, and it explains how Abe knew Joe was hoarding half his silver, since he knows exactly how much Joe is getting paid. It's also why he didn't care, since as he stated there was no law or rule against it, he knew Joe was eventually going to have to bring it to him to cash out, and they'd get it all back one way or the other anyway.
10	* As someone brought up on the Headscratchers page, at first glance Joe is presented as a cold bastard, selling out Seth in order to keep his silver, but on a second watch you'll realise that instead of a SadisticChoice Abe (whether by chance or deliberately, depending on whether he'd guessed where Joe hid Seth) doesn't really give him a choice at all. If Joe chose to give up half of his silver, Abe's henchmen would either go with him to retrieve it or go by themselves, they'd find Seth regardless, and Joe would be punished as well.
11	** This could also explain why so many other Loopers don't save up their earnings for retirement but instead blow it all as quickly as possible; it prevents situations like this, where Abe might hold them hostage by demanding some of their stash.
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15	* It's mentioned that, while nobody knows what the Rainmaker really looks like, there's a rumor that he has a prosthetic jaw. After shooting Joe with rock salt, Sara mentions that it's easy for wounds in their parts to get infected and warrant amputation. Which would mean that, after Cid's injury from Old Joe, his entire jaw was either eaten away completely or to the point where it had to be removed. And this is a ''little kid'' we're talking about.

Context Fridge / Looper