(4) : In Time (2011)

Film Review (4) : In Time (2011)

This is the Sci-fi movie starred by Justin Timberlake as Will Salas 

and Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis.

It is basically about the people live in the world that they use time as a currency. 

They do not get old after they turned the age of 25,
but they live minute by minute under the timekeepers' control.

People buy stuffs by deposing certain amount of time they have.

But if they lack of enough time, they die immediately as time turns 00:00

 There's this saying "Time is money" and this shows exactly how they work. 

This motif was very refreshing and totally new experience to me.

 

Will Salas has gained lots of time that he is actually not affordable at all.

So he decided to move to the Greenwich to live with the rich people. 

There, he met Sylvia, the daughter of the wealthiest man in the country. 

She is a person who does not know how the life of ghetto seems to be.

Due to Will's help, she experienced the real life of ghetto and faced how poor people live.

  Later on, she ran away with Will. They wanted to redistribute the wealth.

This movie precisely shows about the huge economical gap between the rich and poor.

Rich people become richer and poor people become poorer. 

The people in ghetto lives minute by minute under timekeeper's control whereas the rich people they save huge amount of time in their safe and often party, of course, they do not get any control from the timekeeper. 

Watching this part, reminded me of the Wall St. demonstration, which happened in the United States. People were demonstrating that rich people gets richer when the poor people gets poorer. Also, not long ago, life in Korea was similar to this. People working in KIA, were demonstrating because of their wages and benefits provided. Rich people are getting richer and poor people remain the same or even worse.

Sylvia went to Greenwich to free the time which were kept in her father's bank, to the people in ghetto.

I think the economical gap between rich and poor are the unsolved homework for the politicians president, and also for the multinational companies, everywhere in the world.

The candidates of the election promises for the better economy. But it is uneasy to be. And according to the movie, it seemed that rich people tend to have the benefits themselves only.

I think it would make a better economy if they could pay the tax at the right amount and share or donate.