"Time is the element in which we exist. We are either borne along with it or drowned in it." — Joyce Carol Oates (Brussat). Time is everything in movie In Time, time is currency to purchase food, pay bills, and also determines how long you live. This is the reality of Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) and Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) playing son and daughter. Not only do they live by this new currency and struggle to survive each and everyday so, does everyone else in their time zone. So the movie begins with telling the viewer that this new system began with the collapse of capitalism and now everyone lives with unlimited time until the age of twenty-five in which they also stop ageing because of new technology that has altered their genes and …show more content…
He then visits New Greenwich alone where he is seen doing everything a little to fast for his taste and with the Time Keepers on his tail for what they think is the murder of Henry. While he is is New Greenwich he meets the Weis family the main controller of all time and also falls in love with Sylvia daughter of Philippe Weis without them knowing that he is from the ghetto or the trouble he brings along. Philippe then explains to him that its just Darwinism Capitalism taking place killing off the weak but, also while Will is here Sylvia teaches him that having all time needed to live forever has made them lazy and unadventurous. From here Sylvia and Will begin to steal time from her father’s banks trying to upset the system into a collapse. Eventually they realize this isn’t enough because they will just steal the time back via inflation. So they decide to steal her fathers one million years in hopes that this is enough. The movie then ends with Sylvia saying, “I told you there was bigger banks” as they walk in the biggest bank yet assuming to steal more time as the once very strong system is crippled and brought to its
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