Photo Galleries. About Us. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. See our other FREE newsletters. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Select free newsletters: The Weekender. Today's Highlights. Christian Science Perspective. This is seen as a perfect kill system because: Law Enforcement in has no corpse to pin on the mob. No corpse, no crime. The looper, whose only kernel of knowledge is that he briefly killed strangers for a future mob, ultimately offs the only person in to witness these killings himself , leaving NO ONE who can tie the future mob to a crime no body, no killer, no crime.
You've read of free articles. Subscribe to continue. Mark Sappenfield. Our work isn't possible without your support. Digital subscription includes: Unlimited access to CSMonitor. The Monitor Daily email. No advertising. Cancel anytime. This old Joe played by Bruce Willis attacks young Joe and escapes. The two eventually meet, and old Joe tells young Joe about a future mob kingpin called the Rainmaker. Young Joe and old Joe tussle, and young Joe ends up with the map which he eventually uses to find his way to a farmhouse, where he meets Sara and her young son Cid.
Sara reveals that Cid has extremely strong telekinetic powers, and young Joe deduces that he will one day ultimately become the Rainmaker. Meanwhile, old Joe is captured by the mob but breaks free and meets young Joe at the farm. In the climactic finale, old Joe confronts Sara and the young Cid, meaning to kill the boy.
Sara stands in his way as young Joe watches from afar. Young Joe realizes that if old Joe kills Cid, it will put the steps into place for Cid to become the Rainmaker, so he decides to shoot himself as a way to stop old Joe. But the question remains: what does the Looper film ending actually mean? And how can the Looper ending be explained? He received a set of numbers from a friend in the future which reveal the date of birth and hospital code of the Rainmaker, and he plans to use it to kill him as a child, changing the future and saving his wife.
Abe's henchmen arrive and both versions of Joe escape, but not before Joe steals a piece of Old Joe's map to the Rainmaker. Joe realizes that Old Joe is killing all three children born on the same date in the same hospital, which means he'll eventually come for Cid. He decides to stay at the farm and protect Sara and Cid, but one of Abe's henchmen also eventually shows up to look for him. That's when Joe discovers a secret Sara's been keeping about Cid.
Cid panics and falls down the stairs, triggering a telekinetic episode Sara also has minor "TK" powers, but Cid's are deadly in which he explodes both Jesse and much of the farmhouse. It's then that Joe realizes Cid is the future Rainmaker — and because it's now in his memory, Old Joe realizes it at the same time, but is waylaid when Kid Blue captures him. Old Joe manages to break loose and slaughters everyone at Abe's headquarters, then heads to the farm to kill Cid, setting up a showdown with his past self.
Old Joe arrives at the farmhouse and fires a shot at Cid, who is struck on the cheek. Before he can explode his TK powers again, Sara calms him down and sends him running into the sugar cane fields while Old Joe continues firing at them. Joe realizes he's part of a cycle of violence, a loop with greater consequences, and decides to end it. He turns his blunderbuss on himself and fires into his heart, erasing Old Joe and saving Sara, Cid, Old Joe's wife, and the future.
The segment of the film right after Old Joe arrives in the past gives us a clear, if brief, picture of what happened to him: He moved to Shanghai instead of France taking Abe's advice that he should go to China , spent all the money he saved on drugs and then took up life as a hitman again not a looper to fund his habit.
All that changed when he met his wife Summer Qing , who cleaned him up and showed him the only real happiness he'd ever known. With Joe's decision to turn his gun on himself, that's all over.
The future Old Joe knew never happens in any form in the main timeline of the film, because Joe will never age into that version of himself and travel to Shanghai. Perhaps in some alternate timeline Old Joe and his wife are able to live happily ever after in the absence of the Rainmaker, but Joe made a choice to sacrifice himself and his potential future to save others.
At the time of Looper 's present, Joe is told by people who've been there that the future is a world in which Old Joe murdered Sara, sending Cid into the rage that would ultimately make him the Rainmaker and creating chaos within the realms of organized crime. With Old Joe's death, that is no longer the case, and while the film never shows us a glimpse of their future, we do now know that their present is one filled with possibility.
In the film's climactic moments, we see that in a moment of crisis Sara is able to have a calming effect on Cid's TK abilities, and he is finally able to embrace her more and call her "Mom" he previously called her Sara since she allowed someone else to raise him during her partying days. Their relationship is stronger than ever in the wake of Joe's death, and the car that Old Joe drove out to the farm is full of silver bars, making them financially secure.
With that in mind, and their combined TK abilities, it's possible that Cid will grow up to be a person of great influence, but in a positive way, helping the world rather than breaking it with his gifts and his resources. Seth tells Joe that the Rainmaker's future ambitions include closing all loops and taking over all mob operations from other bosses, consolidating power in a way that would break the current system.
Because Cid no longer becomes the Rainmaker, that won't happen, which means the old system of several bosses is likely still in place in the future that exists after Joe's death. Johnson surmises that he was going to be late both time lines regardless because of the death of his wife. Plus, "though we don't see it, he fought back against the guys but they overpowered him" the first time.
His winning the second time means he's actually back a few seconds later in the film itself. How does murder work in the future?
Why can't the mobsters kill there and what happens when Joe's wife is killed? The film mentions briefly mentions that, in the future, tracking technology stops murders from happening.
But we explicitly see Joe's wife murdered in the future. Johnson said this was one of several things he worked out in his head but didn't put in the movie because it felt superfluous to the story. He instead explained it to us. So they can't kill people in the future. But if they send them back, that is not triggered. Knowing a looper killed his mother, is the Rainmaker closing all these loops for revenge? It's a good question. This is another one of those questions Johnson had answered in his head but didn't put in the movie.
In fact, he even conceived a scene with Abe addressing it but never shot it.
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