Player Affinity:
“Looper” envisions a future in which time travel has not been invented, but in 30 years it will be, only it’s used exclusively by the mob to erase any trace of a hit. Young, impressionable guys in need of work like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) have been recruited as Loopers to do this dirty work, but even the Loopers must be kept silent in the future, and so they’re sent back in time to be killed by their younger selves, which is called “closing your loop.” You earn a ton of gold and your freedom for closing your loop, but eventually you’ll be sent back in time to be killed by your younger self, hence the loop analogy.
