- courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
It’s the year 2044 and America is in shambles. Economic collapse has led to social breakdown. Cities teem with desperate refugees, gangs of vicious vagrants roam the countryside, and organized crime has asserted itself as the law of the land.
Street transactions require precious metals and Chinese currency. The cops and the criminal czars work together openly. Drugs are cheap, powerful and ingested through the eyeball. On the bright side, about 10 percent of the population is now telekinetic.
These are the spooky dystopian details we get, in glimpses and flashes, throughout the excellent sci-fi thriller Looper, new this week to DVD and Blu-ray. While the main storyline is good, pulpy fun — a time traveling gangster squares off against his younger self — it’s the stuff in the corner of the frame that intrigues. As it ambles along, Looper casually tosses off enough gonzo sci-fi notions to power a dozen other films.
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