Ever see Looper?

I used to like this movie...

Ever see Looper? Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, the ugly preacher from There Will be Blood… It was such a cool movie when it came out - the look, the characters, sci-fi dystopian storyline. What’s not to like? Taken at face value, it’s an entertaining movie. After putting on my subversion detector glasses though, I can see a lot of programming taking place all throughout this flick.

“I’m from the future, you should go to CHINA!” Need I say more? OK, I will. The fact that this line is delivered by a character who actually traveled back to that time from a future where China is the superpower makes it so much more believable to us, the viewers. It’s almost as if it already happened. They are cultivating their craft all the time.

Emily Blunt plays a single mom living on a farm while taking care of her son, who has a mental abnormality that gives him psychic superpowers. Could be a metaphor for autism, as the little boy is seen taking apart and fixing electronic toys. Where is the boy’s father? Why is this idea of kids not needing a father being pushed so hard? I’m a grown man and I wish I still had my father. Good men are being given such a bad name while criminal men are being portrayed as do-gooder alpha males. It’s nonsense to me, but for a young girl who has no idea, it’s extremely subversive. This kind of thing has been going on for years - the noble savage, hip-hop music videos, etc. All bullshit nonsense. I remember my young, pretty white cousin sweating black guys because of MTV. I didn’t understand it then - it’s done on purpose as they have this miscegenation fetish. They are hoping it will lead to the creation of a new slave human who is racially homeless. That way, they can pledge themselves to the state. Muhammad Ali said it best I think: “Blue birds fly with blue birds, black birds fly with black birds, etc.”

See how easy it is to fly off topic? Looper depicts Joe, a killer of the future’s criminal trash, is his action-packed futuristic bachelor life. He uses future eyedrop drugs, drives his classic Miata, and goes to the burlesque club in town where he’s a regular for Susie, a cute little brunette with her own daughter. He’s cool if you are a young viewer, but an older guy would know what he’s doing is wasting time. The depiction of the American man and woman in the future was pretty accurate for the time - women in prostitution and men unfocused and lost, doing morally questionable things to survive. Sound familiar? Onlyfans and the opiate crisis, to name a couple? “You wanna give me your money? Money has strings…” She’d rather work as a prostitute and live in a dump than raise her daughter correctly with her father or a father figure at least… What is happening? Do we not see the result of single motherhood? Look at black communities (I get it, insert thought about poverty here… but I don’t see that level of violence in poor white communities. Yes, they exist.) today. 25% of black women are married today, same percentage of kids have father in the house.

Then there’s the ending - where the protagonist sees the light aaaand… kills himself. (Sarcastic voice) That’s right, white American male audience!! Kill yourself and make the future a better place - a place where single mothers can ruin their accidental kids on their own. Boys ooobviously get their bad, tyrannical nature from the ‘lost’ men that move transiently through their mothers’ lives, DUHHH. (enough sarcasm)

Why is there a constant deterrent of functional, happy families in recent media? Has someone decided that there are too many humans? How do they decide who is ‘undesirable’? Why does the future always have to be dystopian? Technology has made things easier, but is robbing us of the meaning in our lives - which usually comes from the hardships in it.

Just a bitta brain barf.

Fred