Looper

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2014)

Directed by Rian Johnson and with stars like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt the movie Looper is a sci-fi creative movie, that uses the time-traveling as premise to a crime movie. In the year 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone they send it back in time where the loopers (hired guns) will be expecting them. It was a very "creative" idea the mobsters in the future had (also creative in the perspective of the writer, of course), to send a man back in time, with his hands tied and a hood covering their faces, and in the past a hired gun expecting with what looked like a shotgun to kill and get his reward. Eventually the loop has to be closed and when it's time for Joe (Gordon- Levitt) to kill his self future he hesitates because he was without the usual hood (it would have prevented him seeing it was him).
Old Joe had once a wife, but she was killed by someone named The Rainmaker. Young Joe meets a women, Sara and her son Cid. They slowly grow close, but Cid in the future may be a different and evil person, and events in the past obviously can affect the future...
One of the most thought provoking scenes is when the two Joes are talking to each other in a dinner. Imagine all the possibilities and questions you could ask your older self!
In a movie like this it's easy to fail at some points in the time- traveling, because it's a complex theme that needs to be well thought before filming because otherwise in the end the impossibilities may be a little to much. I think the movie didn't fail at it but you have to assume some things don't need explanation, like the fact that it was impossible to kill someone in the future, or that the loop has to be closed sometime. The film lives up to his rules of time-travel and confronts the many implications of time travel in a way that makes you think what would be like if time traveling really existed.