In Time For Your Future

Versus Movie #121. If you're like me then you were in time for "In Time", a sweet sci-fi movie where time is money, ha, get it?! Time is money people! Literally. The scary thing about time actually being money is you only live as long as the time you have so if you don't have much money you don't live as long. Ironic but life sort of works that way. The main characters in this movie...

Versus Movie #121. If you're like me then you were in time for "In Time", a sweet sci-fi movie where time is money, ha, get it?! Time is money people! Literally. The scary thing about time actually being money is you only live as long as the time you have so if you don't have much money you don't live as long. Ironic but life sort of works that way. The main characters in this movie were a mother and son living in some projects with a job at a mill. That can be a tough life and I've known people like that. They tried so hard to make ends meet, living paycheck to paycheck and that literally meant your life depended on a job. In a world where people only age to the age of 25 and then look the same you have to wonder what the motive would be. Is it really better if we all look as young as we did at 25 forever? Some kind of eternal youth, depending on whether you can afford it. If not, then you only live 25 years. Ouch. What a metaphor for life in a way. So many young people think their lives end at 25 but it doesn't. Society tries to make us feel old and it's all B.S. if you ask me. I would never want to be 25 forever. In the movie it may serve a purpose of population control but what a way to do it. I felt so sorry for the guy when his mom died abruptly racing to him only to die in his arms. Later he meets a girl that lives in a richer area and she feels so lifeless despite her youth. She was stifled by the conformity of her family and her rich father. The girl and guy go on together to rob banks and to give time to poor people. Movie comparisons can be made here. I don't blame her; in a world like that it would be easy to grow up jaded about how you'll never grow up and what this means to you. So many people want to think their "glory days" were when they were in high school and turn out to be lame adults. Life is too short to feel old I say. Too short to conform. Conservative people never take chances and live like cogs in a wheel. I liked how this movie makes you feel like life is precious and we better make it count. If time was money I'd consider robbing banks too. What kind of greed would there be if people could live forever? Some think viruses are population control so it's not too hard to imagine a future like this. Living in a ghetto making ends meet is kind of like not living if you don't save money. The message of how the classes separate each other is well done, and similar in "Land Of The Dead" with the city promising protection if you could afford it. There will always be a way to separate classes. And what if someone gave you more time than you knew what to do with? You could live forever or give it to people. In that type of world I might give it to people too, knowing that others also live like that, hoping they don't die from a weak paycheck. It's all a big metaphor for how life can make us feel trapped. And yet the rich girl felt trapped in her own hell. We may not live forever in this life but money does help. I think the best of us retain our youth better than others while many conform to the aging process set forth by society. It is a good movie to make you think if you let it. I liked the message and the action was just right. Well balanced. Either be wanted or prolong your existence. Keep death away for another month. What pressure is that? What a choice huh? We can all relate to that. The future is a scary place and we like these movies because we'll never live long enough to see such a far future. A fast paced sci-fi tale that exemplifies a real dystopia. I am scared of this future and it makes you appreciate life that much more. He had no choice though, since he was framed. That's fate.
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Guest Commentator BONE COLLECTOR says: "I wasn't in time for 'In Time'. I'll have to abduct the stars and re-enact the movie!"