Looper: Why You Don't Listen To Your Parent's Advice

I'm going to continue in the past and cover another time-travel movie.

My favorite thing about Looper is this concept: coming back from the future to give yourself advice, to realise you never listened to advice, which is why you've learnt the hard lessons that are prompting your great advice.

A concept to make any parent smile. Or any young guy like me even, who knows they often don't follow what could be viewed in hindsight as good advice. 

But here's the real heart of it. You're not living your parent's life - or in this case, your own previously-lived life - you're living your life, as directed by your choices. Plus in the character of the young boy it goes deeper still, considering how you live with those terrible occurrences that were not your choice, but for which you may still feel somehow responsible.

It's deep stuff, but tied into a brilliant screenplay about time-travel it hits you harder, as it's not expected. Looper is Sci-Fi at its most meaningful and personal. 

Sci-Fi writers too often use humanity-ending scenarios (plus one typical "rouse the troops" monologue) to create emotion, with minimal success. Despite being futuristic Looper has people and situations we can relate to - and that is powerful film making.

My Rating 94/100