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Sat, May 26 2012
In Time
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How often have you found yourself concluding that there simply arenot enough hours in the day? Consider yourself lucky then that you don't live in the dystopia of In Time, a world in which time is more of the essence than is safe for the average working Joe.
Time: the not-too-distant future, but oh, how the economy has changed. Yes, there are still all the same predicaments, like soaring interest rates, slavish treatment of workers and an ugly divide between rich and poor, but currency is no longer measured in dollars or euro. Instead, people pay in minutes, hours, months and years: Time is money. To be exact, as soon as you hit 25 in Andrew Niccol's movie, your body clock starts ticking, one year and counting. If you want to top up the mileage, you've got to work for it. That, or kill for it.
Someone who's appalled by this system is factory worker Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) who is forced to take each day as it comes, quite literally, on the meagre amount of time left on the watch of everyone is now born with, glowing green on their arm. After receiving a generous gift of more than a century from a wealthy man who no longer wants to live, followed by a heart-rending scene in which his mother (Olivia Wilde) "times out," Salas makes it his business to infiltrate the elite district - the aptly named New Greenwich - in order to redistribute the balance between rich and poor, young and old.
Read the full story in The Prague Post.
Time: the not-too-distant future, but oh, how the economy has changed. Yes, there are still all the same predicaments, like soaring interest rates, slavish treatment of workers and an ugly divide between rich and poor, but currency is no longer measured in dollars or euro. Instead, people pay in minutes, hours, months and years: Time is money. To be exact, as soon as you hit 25 in Andrew Niccol's movie, your body clock starts ticking, one year and counting. If you want to top up the mileage, you've got to work for it. That, or kill for it.
Someone who's appalled by this system is factory worker Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) who is forced to take each day as it comes, quite literally, on the meagre amount of time left on the watch of everyone is now born with, glowing green on their arm. After receiving a generous gift of more than a century from a wealthy man who no longer wants to live, followed by a heart-rending scene in which his mother (Olivia Wilde) "times out," Salas makes it his business to infiltrate the elite district - the aptly named New Greenwich - in order to redistribute the balance between rich and poor, young and old.
Read the full story in The Prague Post.
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