Saturday, October 29, 2011

"In Time" A new way of life.




You might be 50, or 105, but you look 25, always. "In Time" is a new movie showing us a new way of living through lives of the people that actually live in that time. In the future, humans will be genetically engineered to live up to 25 years old. The wealthiest citizens, the ones who either "come from time," the way people used to come from money, or who have over came in this futuristic version of Darwinian capitalism — can re-up on their time clock, while others expire and die once they time clock reaches 00:00:00:00. In this future, time is the new currency, spent and borrowed like money. Each person's forearm is digitally stamped with a glowing green countdown clock, displaying the time they have left. Woman A can gift Man B 30 minutes, or a day, by a simple forearm handclasp.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                    How can we come to the point were in the future the meaning of life is simply based on how much time you can afford to live. It gets to the point where the meaning of life is being based on how wealthy you are, because the more money you have the more time you can afford to buy for your self to live longer in the years to come. In the movie there's a man who shortly committing suicide before he gave the gift of a century to one man. Literally ONE HUNDRED YEARS! Just imagine if all of us in the world have a century of time to live and to do what we will to do, knowing that we are guaranteed those 100 years no matter what. 

Would we be greedy and try to steal other people's time, so that we would be able to live longer our selves and prosper from what we knowingly stole? I believe some of us would do that we live in a serious time of greed and will to take whats not ours so that it can benefit us, instead of the person whom it belongs to truly.

You live your life from start to finish with the time on your forearm, as a baby you are given 25 years to begin with. and thats all you get unless your are given time by others or if you are wealthy enough to buy your time or if your sneaky and greedy enough to steal and kill for more time which can be one of the biggest problems that happen to a society thats living like this, living by how much time you have. If we go on and make our life the way the people in this movie make there's then our future is looking like a dystopian society.


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