Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.
Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.
I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.
I remember after I left the movie as a teenager with my parents two older dudes were bickering about whether poor people in our actual world are able to escape poverty or not if they work hard.
Yeah it also has a rather large plot hole, right at the climax, and kind of terrible CGI, the car crash scene is hilariously bad. But yeah it’s quite a good film from a story point of view.
Wouldn’t surprise me that it’s a rehashed comic book idea. It has all the markings of one. I found this which was apparently published in a playboy magazine of all places, not sure if it’s a retelling of the comic book or another rehash of the same idea, but it definitely seems like something that inspired the film.
Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.
Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.
I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.
I think it’s a clever metaphor for the disparity in living standards and the real value of human life in a corrupt marketplace.
But the actual implementation of the story was a bit clumsy and heavy handed.
I remember after I left the movie as a teenager with my parents two older dudes were bickering about whether poor people in our actual world are able to escape poverty or not if they work hard.
You can escape poverty if you work hard in the same way that you can escape Earth’s orbit if you work hard
In Time is definitely one of my favorite movies. It has some great world building around this concept.
We’re literally living that life and we’ve always lived it since the dawn of currency, fiat.
How long you’re going to survive after you reach zero wealth left to your own devices, homeless on the streets? Until the first rough winter?
Depends on how resourceful you are. You don’t automatically die once you run out of money. Also, no amount of money grants immortality.
Yeah it also has a rather large plot hole, right at the climax, and kind of terrible CGI, the car crash scene is hilariously bad. But yeah it’s quite a good film from a story point of view.
I read that comics (Mandrake) when I was a kid, like in the seventies. Alien came and stole for 40.000 years of gold. Recycle ftw eh.
Wouldn’t surprise me that it’s a rehashed comic book idea. It has all the markings of one. I found this which was apparently published in a playboy magazine of all places, not sure if it’s a retelling of the comic book or another rehash of the same idea, but it definitely seems like something that inspired the film.
Good one!
Lol found it but I don’t know the language: