Looper (film)

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Movie
German title Looper
Original title Looper
Country of production United States , People's Republic of China
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Rian Johnson
script Rian Johnson
production Ram Bergman ,
James D. Stern
music Nathan Johnson
camera Steve Yedlin
cut Bob Ducsay
occupation
synchronization

Looper is an American science fiction film directed by Rian Johnson from the year 2012 . It's about a current hit man hired by criminal syndicates from the future to kill people who send them back through time. One day he meets his older future self. The film premiered on September 6, 2012 at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany, the film was released on October 3, 2012.

action

After the United States of America was overtaken economically by China, social differences and tensions have intensified; In 2044, extreme poverty and violence are largely the order of the day. Another difference to the present is that around 10% of the population have acquired weak telekinetic abilities through a mutation .

Joe lives in Kansas City and earns his living as a so-called "looper". Looper are contract killers and work for a syndicate that will exist around the year 2074 in the future and that secretly uses a strictly forbidden time travel technology to murder unpleasant people, as this will no longer be done in the future because of the advanced person tracking is possible. The victims - tied up and with a sack over their heads - are sent back to the past, where they are expected by the loopers, shot and disposed of. In order to deprive the loopers of the possibility of betraying their clients to the authorities in the future, they too are sent back to their younger self after 30 years and eliminated by this, which brings the younger looper a considerable additional payment in gold. This final “suicide” is called a “closed loop”. The Looper will be run in 2044 by Abe, a middleman who has also been sent back in time by the Syndicate and who resides in a nightclub that serves as a meeting place for the Looper.

Joe's friend Seth also works as a looper. When he is supposed to kill his 30 years older self, however, he hesitates, whereupon the older Seth escapes. Abe sends his henchman Kid Blue to pursue the younger Seth, who seeks refuge in Joe's apartment. After some hesitation, Joe allows him to hide in his secret hiding place under the floor. Through Seth, Joe learns about a mysterious Rainmaker , an unknown but powerful gangster from the future who controls all criminal syndicates there and immediately after taking power he started to close one loop after the other. When Joe reveals the hiding place under pressure, Abe's men grab young Seth and cut him in the arm with a request to appear at a certain meeting point. The older Seth notices the scars on his arm, thinks it is a message from his younger self and sets off. In the meantime, Abe's men gradually begin to mutilate Seth, which (explained by the time travel logic dealt with in the film) immediately happens to Seth, who is 30 years older than him, until his remnant body is killed by Abe's people on schedule at the meeting point.

A little later, Joe is also assigned to close his loop: he shoots his future self and emigrates to Shanghai with his considerable savings . There he lives in luxury and spends his life with parties and drugs. In the process, he meets a woman who manages to dissuade him from drugs and his excessive lifestyle. At the end of the 30 years she is shot by the rainmaker's henchmen in front of his house when he is picked up to be sent back to his execution. Shortly before entering the time machine, he overpowers his kidnappers and travels back to the past unfettered, where his younger self is already waiting for him. In this timeline, however, he can overpower the waiting Joe and sets out to track down the young rainmaker , who at that time already has to live in the area as a boy. He wants to kill him in order to prevent his wife from being murdered 30 years later.

Since the execution order for Joe has failed, the younger Joe must fear for his life. He makes an appointment with his older self in a diner restaurant based on a message cut into his own arm. The time traveler shows the younger one a map on which the three possible whereabouts of the rainmaker in the present are recorded. Kid Blue and his gang surprise them at the diner, but both manage to escape after a shootout. On his flight from Abe's killers, young Joe finds refuge with the farmer Sara, whose property is one of the rainmaker's possible whereabouts . Joe realizes that Sara's son Cid is gifted. When he experiences how fearful Cid tears one of Abe's henchmen to pieces with his powerful telekinetic abilities, he realizes that the boy must be the "rainmaker".

After the elder Joe kills the first possible Rainmaker child and realizes it was the wrong one, he is captured by Kid Blue in his search for the second child and taken to Abe's nightclub. The younger Joe's realization of who the future rainmaker really is is instantly a memory for his older self, so that he now knows the identity and whereabouts of Cid. He kills Abe and his men and makes his way to Sara's farm. There he is confronted not only with the "rainmaker", but also with Sara and his younger self.

While Cid flees from the older Joe, Sara stands in front of her child to protect them from the deadly bullet. At this moment the young Joe recognizes the ominous time loop: The older Joe will shoot Sara, which will traumatize Cid so much that he will take revenge on the loops as a rainmaker in the future with the help of his enormous telekinetic skills . To break this fateful cycle, young Joe shoots himself, whereupon his older self disappears. Sara finds Joe's fortune and can now raise her son Cid as a "normal" boy.

synchronization

The German synchronization of the film took over the Film & TV sync GmBH in Berlin for a dialogue book of Tobias Neumann under the dialogue director of Frank Schaff .

role actor Voice actor
Joseph Simmons Joseph Gordon-Levitt Robin Kahnmeyer
Joseph Simmons (old) Bruce Willis Manfred Lehmann
Sara Emily Blunt Bianca Krahl
Seth Paul Dano Timmo Niesner
Kid Blue Noah Segan Leonhard Mahlich
Suzie Piper Perabo Anna Carlsson
Abe Jeff Daniels Wolfgang Condrus
Beatrix Tracie Thoms Kaya Marie Möller
Jesse Garret Dillahunt Olaf Reichmann

reception

German and international reviews were mostly positive. The Metascore service Rotten Tomatoes determined 93% positive ratings from the specialist audience and 87% from the regular viewers (as of March 2013).

"Atmospherically dense science fiction film that uses the time travel motif and the scenario of a not-too-distant future for an exciting speculation about the value given to human life."

"With his masterful time travel thriller" Looper ", director Rian Johnson succeeds in creating an exciting and intelligent lesson on complex moral issues and turns his science fiction film in neo-noir guise into a universal and timeless character drama."

“An excellently cast science fiction that simultaneously thinks about tyrannicide and raising children, entertains and makes you think. "Looper" is worth going to the cinema for several loops with content, form and added value. "

- Günter H. Jekubzik, film tabs

Danny Gronmaier from critic.de saw the film more critically:

“The film seems too undecided for the entire duration of almost two hours, and the individual parts are only developed in a diluted manner. This is also due to the no-frills (anti) drama of Willis and Gordon-Levitt, which cannot condense the inner conflict of the protagonists and thus rather undermines the ambition to ground time travel science fiction in the characters. "

- Critic.de

Awards

price Nominee result
National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Film Emily Blunt Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in an Action Film Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Action Film Looper Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for best science fiction / horror film Looper Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Emily Blunt Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Online Film Critics Society Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Original Utah Film Critics Association Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation , Long Form Rian Johnson Nominated
Saturn Award for best science fiction film Looper Nominated
Saturn Award for best director Rian Johnson Nominated
Saturn Award for best actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nominated
Saturn Award for the best cut Bob Ducsay Nominated
Young Artist Award for the best performance by a young supporting actor (younger than eleven) Pierce Gagnon Nominated

Web links

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