The Overthinkers tackle Looper, written and directed by Rian Johnson, Starring Joseph “Gordonian Knot” Levitt and Bruce Willis.

Episode 222: Portrait of The Artist as An Old Man Coming to Visit Himself as A Young Man originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee, David Shechner, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink Looper, Directed by Rian Johnson, starring Joseph “Gordonian Knot” Levitt and Bruce Willis.


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Further Reading

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Looper

Wallace Stevens


I

Among twenty snowy mountains,

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the looper.


II

I was of three minds,

Like a tree

In which there are three loopers.


III

The looper whirled in the autumn winds.

It was a small part of the pantomime.


IV

A man and a woman

Are one.

A man and a woman and a looper

Are one.


V

I do not know which to prefer,

The beauty of inflections

Or the beauty of innuendoes,

The looper whistling

Or just after.


VI

Icicles filled the long window

With barbaric glass.

The shadow of the looper

Crossed it, to and fro.

The mood

Traced in the shadow

An indecipherable cause.


VII

O thin men of Haddam,

Why do you imagine golden birds?

Do you not see how the looper

Walks around the feet

Of the women about you?


VIII

I know noble accents

And lucid, inescapable rhythms;

But I know, too,

That the looper is involved

In what I know.


IX

When the looper flew out of sight,

It marked the edge

Of one of many circles.


X

At the sight of loopers

Flying in a green light,

Even the bawds of euphony

Would cry out sharply.


XI

He rode over Connecticut

In a glass coach.

Once, a fear pierced him,

In that he mistook

The shadow of his equipage

For loopers.


XII

The river is moving.

The looper must be flying.


XIII

It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing

And it was going to snow.

The looper sat

In the cedar-limbs.

Episode 222: Portrait of The Artist as An Old Man Coming to Visit Himself as A Young Man originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]