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Made of awesome, loved so much about it I can't even start, will probably go see it again. Plotty, interesting, character driven. See it with a friend so you can talk about it after.
IMDB says: "In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self."
...which is all true but hey, so much more to enjoy including Joseph Gordon-Levitt weirdly made up to look more like Bruce Willis.
Things I am not cool with.
Fails the Bechdel/Wallace test. Seriously, Rian Johnson can only imagine a world where women are either sex workers or hot-young-mother-protectors who trigger empathy? How hard would it have been to cast a few of the other loopers as women, or even any of the other characters? Of course having actual women in the cast would have undermined the impact of Joe's missing-mother issues, a fundamental plot point hinged on a women performing a magical service for a man by virtue of her her-ness.
I judge you Johnson. This is the difference between me buying your other stuff and seeing it, this is the difference between me seeking out your next work despite the otherwise excellence of Looper.
IMDB says: "In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self."
...which is all true but hey, so much more to enjoy including Joseph Gordon-Levitt weirdly made up to look more like Bruce Willis.
Things I am not cool with.
Fails the Bechdel/Wallace test. Seriously, Rian Johnson can only imagine a world where women are either sex workers or hot-young-mother-protectors who trigger empathy? How hard would it have been to cast a few of the other loopers as women, or even any of the other characters? Of course having actual women in the cast would have undermined the impact of Joe's missing-mother issues, a fundamental plot point hinged on a women performing a magical service for a man by virtue of her her-ness.
I judge you Johnson. This is the difference between me buying your other stuff and seeing it, this is the difference between me seeking out your next work despite the otherwise excellence of Looper.
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