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When young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is explaining himself to Sara (Emily Blunt), she asks him if he's a looper.

Does she know about loopers? If so, how?

Could it also be that Joe mentioned/explained loopers off screen, or did I just miss a piece of dialogue?

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  • She’s just loopy for Loopers!
    – Paul D. Waite
    Mar 20, 2021 at 10:36

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  • No, you didn't miss it. Loopers, their lifestyles, their specific technology (the blunderbuss) and how they make a living seem to be an urban legend with enough substantiated fact, people simply accept it as a matter of course.
  • Since the Looper phenomemon appears to be limited to a particular part of the city, no one seems to care about its long-term ramifications as long as they get paid to look the other way.
  • When you have as much money moving though the economy as Loopers appeared to, it would be almost impossible NOT to notice them. But since they had a lot of money, paying ATTENTION to them might be bad for your health.
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It was said in the movie that she abandoned her kid at her sister's house and went back to the city to live her life. And since it was apparent in the beginning of the movie that the Loopers loved parties and drugs, it is very possible that some intoxicated Looper at some party told her everything about the industry. Especially since she even knew about closing a Loop.

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I'm going to throw everyone for a "loop" no pun intended. If anyone paid attention, Young Joe slept with a hooker whom had a daughter named: SARAH. "Sarah" was the girl looking after Cid. Considering the hooker knew what Young Joe did, and that Old Joe went after the hookers daughter(Note long hair of the kid the hooker carrys to the room, it's blonde.) as one of the three targets this leads you to one conclusion. The hookers daughter is the Sarah watching the young Rainmaker. She herself looped back to change him from a young age, remember Cid stated that, "Sarah's a liar, she's not my mother. My mother was killed." and Sarah stated she was trying to raise him properly. Boom, now you know how Sarah know's what Looper's are.

I caught it the first round. If I hadn't heard the hooker state her daughter's name was Sarah, I would of never of caught it.

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  • That's a heck of a catch. I'll have to watch again to see it for myself. That puts a totally different spin on things...
    – magzalez
    Nov 2, 2012 at 3:56
  • Not impossible. Sarah might look young for her age. She would be ca 6 years + ca 30 years + some years with cid. That would be past 35.
    – Aifos
    Nov 9, 2012 at 23:56
  • Veritas- I was thinking the same thing but didn't catch that the hooker's daughter was named Sara. However, this would mean that Young Joe committed incest :(
    – user12039
    Jan 19, 2013 at 4:12
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    Is there any reference for Suzie's daughter being named Sarah? IMDb lists the character as "Suzie's daughter", and her name isn't mentioned in the movie.
    – Andres F.
    Jan 19, 2013 at 6:47
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    When old Joe is in the library, looking up kids who could be the Rainmaker, you can see the names of two of the three children. They are "Cid" and "Megan". Cid we know, and the kid old Joe kills is a boy, so he's probably not named Megan. That leads me to believe the hooker's kid is called Megan. When did they say she was called Sarah? And we do find out how Sarah, the adult, knows about Loopers and why Cid thinks she's not her mom, it's cause she gave him up to her sister when he was young and went to live in the city.
    – jono
    Jan 19, 2013 at 11:17
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Yes - I suppose that 'Loopers" were known to exist due to their conspicuity - but I found this detail a little out of place as well.

On a different point -- I was half-hoping that Cid was a still younger version of our protagonist who had been moved 'up line' to be protected and that the mysterious Rainmaker was in front of us all the time although this would take another bit of plot ratcheting to pull off. I even toyed for a moment with the possibility that the writers had pulled a Rob Heinlein on us and we would going to find out the protagonist had sex with his mother and procreated himself! (perhaps she was grabbed somehow by future Cid and moved around in time to make these arrangements). But alas, this was not the case. Would have made for a bizarro and uncomfortable moment.

...I still want to know how Neo took out those machines in the "real world".

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And it looks like Suzie works as a dancer at the club that all them go to (Gat men, looper) so she might have seen something and told her daughter Sarah about the loopers which is why Sarah knows about the loopers

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    Hi, welcome to SF&F. This seems very speculative. Do you have any evidence of the specific facts that (1) Suzie knows about the loopers, (2) Sara is her daughter and (3) she told Sara, as opposed to Sara learning from another source?
    – DavidW
    Mar 19, 2021 at 21:45
  • I have rewatched the movie! Young joe mentions Suzie and her little one can have his silver live their life but i didn't hear no name or a mention of a name. We only foundt out about Suzie kid AFTER old joe tracks them down when he was looking up the names at the library leading him to their place. Yes Suzie did have a girl in her arms but nothing saying the girl name was Sarah. IDK maybe but to my understanding the girl old joe tracks down is Meghan (we could see the names on the computer screen at the library)
    – KaTina Wheeler
    Mar 19, 2021 at 22:38

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