Andrew Niccol, director of The Truman Show, shows us the world where time really is money.
Justin Timberlake takes the starring role as Will Salas, a factory worker living in an alternative reality, where human beings, for some unexplained reason, cease to age beyond their 25th year.
In Time is the tale of how everyday is a struggle for the poor, whilst the rich hold the world in the hands. Or on their wrists in this case. Everybody dons a digital clock showing the remaining time alive from years, down to their very last second. By working, they can top up the internal body clock, which when reaches zero, causes them to drop dead.
Salas spends his life living day to day with just hours, sometimes minutes remaining on his clock. But his life is turned upside down when he bequethes a century from a suicidal tycoon.
On the run from the police force, aptly named the 'time keepers', Salas decides it's time to bring down the system after being put on the most wanted list for the murder of the initial owner of his new inheriatnce.
Befriending a powerful banker, Phillipe Weis, Salas seizes an opportunity by running off with the bankers rebellious daughter, Sylvia.
The pair embark on a Bonnie and Clyde/Robin Hood-style crime spree, in which they steal time and deliver it to the poorer inhabitants of 'The Ghetto'.
A production which really gives hope to those who 'negotiate for immortality', Im Time is a film that portrays a great idea (although thought of before), and really delivers.
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This is a great review! very nicely written Mr. Scribbler :) x
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