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Oct 28, 2011 · In Time: Directed by Andrew Niccol. With Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki. In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth.
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- Andrew Niccol
- 2011-10-28
In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live.
Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it.
Nov 12, 2011 · In Time shows a world where time is currency. The film explains that on a person's 25th birthday, their clock "starts ticking", with one year on it. From that point forward, they can buy and sell things by exchanging time with other people. And when a person's clock runs out, they die instantly.
- As far as I know it's not explained. Moreover, it does not need to be explained - since the movie is a Marxist parable. And in that worldview, t...
- You can't have everyone living for ever unless reproduction was greatly curtailed which would result in additional problems itself. So everyone die...
- First, I think we should address the mechanism by which this life-timer is enforced. Clearly we're dealing with the concept of post-humans that...
- This was explained in the movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time#Plot There were a number of Time Zones where people lived. Each Time Zone was...
- The central difference between money in the real world and Time in the film is that Time constantly runs out. Money is not (in the usual course of...
- Since the "time" can be transferred to/from an electronic storage system, and apparently transferred by radio, it is presumably just a cryptocurren...
- There was a line in the movie that mentioned "Is there any new time in circulation?" or something like that. I think it could be assumed when they...
- Some good answers here, but missing some critical points, so I'll add my own answer. First of all, when you think about an economy and a currency,...
- In order to understand this you need to understand the mechanics of the devices they are fitted with. When you set your countdown timer on your pho...
Oct 28, 2011 · In a future where time is money and the wealthy can live forever, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is a poor man who rarely has more than a day's worth of life on his time clock.
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- Andrew Niccol
- PG-13
- Justin Timberlake
Your life becomes currency and you work to earn time. In that way, society has divided into people who live day to day and people who are basically immortal. Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives day to day in the ghetto. Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) is his mother.
Oct 26, 2011 · The movie I suppose is an allegory in which time is money in a brutally direct way. For some of these people, time burns a hole in their pockets. For me, the most suspenseful scene involves a high-stakes poker game.
