Imagine a world where time is very precious that besides having to spend time queuing for your coffee, you also need to pay for it using your time, literally.
The movie stars Justine Timberlake as Willa Salas, a guy who lives in poverty therefore has literally little time left on him and Amanda Seyfried (Sylvia Weis) who came from a rich family of time lenders.
In their world, time is everything. You pay for everything using your time like your shelter, food, transportation etc. People are paid for their work with time. Time is transferred to or from a person through a box like device where they point their wrists at and it either sucks the time when payment is charged from the person or it transfers time to the person like when earning wages.
The amount of time a person has is shown on their wrists through a neon like colored light. When two persons would like to share or give one or the other time, they just hold hands making sure their wrists are in contact with each other.
The timer starts once a person reaches 25 years of age. Once you hit 25, your body will retain its physical appearance until you die. In Time's world does not allow dying due to old age, once your time on your arm runs out, your life ends there.
The movie stars Justine Timberlake as Willa Salas, a guy who lives in poverty therefore has literally little time left on him and Amanda Seyfried (Sylvia Weis) who came from a rich family of time lenders.
In their world, time is everything. You pay for everything using your time like your shelter, food, transportation etc. People are paid for their work with time. Time is transferred to or from a person through a box like device where they point their wrists at and it either sucks the time when payment is charged from the person or it transfers time to the person like when earning wages.
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| You either get paid or pay using this gadget. |
The timer starts once a person reaches 25 years of age. Once you hit 25, your body will retain its physical appearance until you die. In Time's world does not allow dying due to old age, once your time on your arm runs out, your life ends there.
| The grandmother, mother and daughter. |
Since time is the currency in their world, robbers steal time and in our world where you kill the person to steal his belongings, killing in their world will mean losing that person's time. The robber would either scare or force you to give them you time or maybe tie your hands down so they can steal it from you until you run out of time and die.
In the movie, since Will Salas is a poor guy, he would usually run to save time when going to work. At the start of the movie, I got confused why Will's mother looked so young and it was because she stopped ageing at the age of 25 as I have explained earlier.
Will meets a wealthy guy, with a century in his arm, being robbed at a bar and being a good guy that he is, saved the rich man from the robbers. The rich guy explained to him that he would have given his time to the robbers because he have lived too long and wanted to die already. As they sleep, the rich guy gave all his time to Will leaving just 5 minutes for himself to go to the bridge and die there. Will was too late to save the man and his presence was caught by a CCTV camera starting a chase with the police.
Will goes to a different sector and meets Sylvia, the daughter of the owner of the Time Weis, a time lending company. Will plays poker with the owner and wins 1000 years after betting all his time except for 30 seconds. Will was then invited by the daughter Sylvia to their party and he meets Sylvia's grandmother and mother who like them look really young since they too have stopped ageing at 25 years of age.
Will gets caught by the Time Keepers who are like the police but keeps track of the people's time. Only 2 hours was left for him since the Time Keepers took all his time. Fortunately for him he was able to escape and kidnaps Sylvia to take her as a hostage. They escape and gets into a car chase.
The story continues with Sylvia's time getting stolen by the Minute Men gang, the same gang who wanted to rob the rich guy from the bar. Will tries to get ransom from Sylvia's father but they were unlucky. The two get to know each other and Sylvia realizes how hard it was to live with a limited amount of time. The couple soon acted like Robin Hood stealing time from Sylvia's father's time banks. All of the time that they steal from each bank they give to the people thinking that it would solve their problem with time but the prices of the commodity only increases as the Time Keepers found out what they were doing.
The story ends when the two were about to cross the border onto the next time zone or sector and the lead Time Keeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) caught them unfortunately for him, he forgot to replenish his time and died on the spot as he was about to arrest them. Having too little time left, Will decides to give all of his time to Sylvia which is enough to let her cross the time zone which will give her more time to live. Sylvia of course did not want Will to die for her. As they were arguing on who will get the time, Will remembered that Time Keepers will always bring extra time with them and so Will ran to the dead Time Keeper's car and replenished his time along with Sylvia's. The last scene shows the couple preparing to rob yet another bank.
Review:
Time itself is already precious and the movie shows how it can be even more important to a human. In the movie the rich have so much time that they enjoy going to parties enjoying without thinking about going to work while the poor rush in the morning so they won't be late for their work and have no time to enjoy life because they do not have enough time for themselves. In our real world, the same thing happens.
Time and money are very well connected since we earn money by spending time taking care of ourselves to make sure we have time to go to work and do our job. Having not enough time to go to work and earn money means no time for leisure as well.
In the movie they have the privilege to become immortal and to stay young as long as they have time but no chance of dying the natural way except for getting killed or by running out of time which will stop your heart from beating. In our real world, we grow old and can die a natural death. Both world has its pros and cons but both cannot turn back time and change whatever happens in the past.
With our planet slowly dying, it's not too soon that time will become more precious than ever because time will become shorter for everyone. There would be so little time to do all the things that you would want to do in your lifetime.
Whether we live in the movie's fictional dystopian world or in our real world, time will always be and will be even more precious for living beings such as us humans.
Review:
Time itself is already precious and the movie shows how it can be even more important to a human. In the movie the rich have so much time that they enjoy going to parties enjoying without thinking about going to work while the poor rush in the morning so they won't be late for their work and have no time to enjoy life because they do not have enough time for themselves. In our real world, the same thing happens.
Time and money are very well connected since we earn money by spending time taking care of ourselves to make sure we have time to go to work and do our job. Having not enough time to go to work and earn money means no time for leisure as well.
In the movie they have the privilege to become immortal and to stay young as long as they have time but no chance of dying the natural way except for getting killed or by running out of time which will stop your heart from beating. In our real world, we grow old and can die a natural death. Both world has its pros and cons but both cannot turn back time and change whatever happens in the past.
With our planet slowly dying, it's not too soon that time will become more precious than ever because time will become shorter for everyone. There would be so little time to do all the things that you would want to do in your lifetime.
Whether we live in the movie's fictional dystopian world or in our real world, time will always be and will be even more precious for living beings such as us humans.
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