I ve always felt that Looper has sort of its own model as well. Every time someone changes something

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I ve always felt that Looper has sort of its own model as well. Every time someone changes something in the past, that reality is the future for everyone involved. So it s all linear. The past is the future in the sequence of events. Not sure if that makes any sense. It s better explained with diagrams Reply Delete Dana November 6, 2012 4:40 PM
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Thanks for your comments. Giordanisti, I see what you mean. However, the way I personally understand the multiple universe model, you can t remain in the same timeline no matter how careful you try to be. Just being there, in a past where you weren t supposed to exist, is already a change. Changes don t have to be major things like killing a person, they can be as small as just having a presence somewhere that shouldn t be there, therefore triggering the parallel timeline. But perhaps your suggestion is indeed what Cameron and Carruth had in mind. It would be interesting to know. Nick, I believe Looper is a movie that refuses to follow any model, because these sort of rules were not important for Rian Johnson. He essentially distances himself from this way of thinking during the diner scene, when future Joe warns past Joe that making diagrams with straws leads nowhere. As for Lost, I have a very particular opinion about that show, and maybe I will share it in a future article. But that one won t be about time-travel. Reply Delete Add comment Load more...