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The Thin Place #24: Looper and the Morality of Time Travel

The Thin Place

English - May 31, 2015 13:53 - 40 minutes - 37 MB
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Ken and Todd look at Rian Johnson’s sci-fi, time-travel hit, Looper. Is changing the future the same as “playing God”? Is there anything theological about the film’s depiction of addictions? What verse in the Book of Genesis makes Ken doubtful that time-travel is ever really possible? Just what exactly is soul annihilation, and why does the way we interpret the film have consequences for the way we conceptualize hell?