Would you imagine a world were when you reached 25 you would stop ageing and you would only have the chance to live one more year?
This new film In Time presents the idea of immortality and the laws of nature where the strongest succeeds and survives. The people in this world fight and work for time and it becomes their currency and their most precious asset. Everything is controlled by a system that helps those who are rich and they are able to live hundreds of years and become almost immortal. But will Will Salas, a young man, with only a day of life, be able to break the system and bring equality to the world?
I truly recommend this film as it questions many of Darwin’s theories and it is also related to the theme of new technologies. The theme may be similar to other films but what make this one different is the comparison between time and money, both limited in our world.
Do you agree that we live in an unfair world ruled by those who have more money? Should we make a change and stop wasting time?
Mi first impression about this theme is that living forever is too dangerous; people must die, as it is a part of the living cycle. Otherwise, in a couple of centuries we will not fit in the earth, too much people will be living and there will not be enough space. Furthermore, living forever would end up being a boring and repetitive live.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is living forever and other very different thing is being young forever, if you just live forever, as time goes by, people will be weaker and will have no strength to continue living, but they will do. On the other hand, if we are young forever like in the film, this will actually be great, as we will not have age problems such as diseases or weakness and we could have very long lives.
Anyway, there is no enough space in the earth for all of us. Advanced research of living in other planets will be needed so that we all can fit in the universe, but this would cost lots and lots of money and it is not easy to start a brand new world. In addition, I don’t that a lot of people will want to go and live to a new planet and leave the earth.
DAVID VILALTA
I personally think this film is a great film because it has a message which the viewer should reflect on. The message consists in the great differences that our world has between their economical statuses. This message uses time as being one of greatest difference between poor and rich people. I don’t think we will never have this problem because our death may have something in common with our economical status but will never be directly influenced by this.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, all humans should die whenever there time is over because if everybody lived forever the thing we would learn about dead people and the fact of sorting our natural recollections of food and water, our lives would have a clear decrease in our wealth, which would make lives even worse than now.
I saw this film the other day and i actually enjoyed it a lot, and it made me think about the message it wants to give to the viewers. At first I thought it was just showing the idea of a future with another unit of currency but later on I realised it was also criticizing our economic system, capitalism.
ReplyDeleteWhat made me think this? well, i could perfectly see how it shows the differences between the social classes in our world, where the rich have everything they want while the poor starve and have to work hard to survive, having to work every day to get time to live until the next day, and so on.
There is a quote which i remember from the movie because it made an impact on me, which is : “for a few to be immortal many must die”. This made me think, and i realised that it is totally true, and so it is in our world. If a person has lots of money, it means that lots of people have lost their money and this person owns it now, so the more rich people there is, there is much more poor people, which leads to a totally unfair society.
Furthermore, I also think that in some way it foresee what is going to happen, as in the real world, which is a revolution of the poor people who take money from the rich by means of violence. I first thought this was impossible but looking back through history, we can see how in every stage in where there was a very rich class and a very poor class, the change to a different society which is more equal and fair has been made the way shown in the film.
Moreover, I think the purpose of the director is to make people and governments reconsider the economic system we live in and how it is ruled because if things continue like this and get worse, poor people will not see their lives passing by, instead, they will join all together and fight against the powerful.
DAVID VILALTA
After having watched this film, I would totally agree with what Palop and Vilalta stated to be the message of the film.
ReplyDeleteThis film definitely criticizes the way wealth is distributed through out the world, and how while some can benefit from it others have to suffer its consequences.
In the world seen in In Time poor people's time is limited and you have to fight for every second of it.
In contrast, in the rich world time is so unlimited that the rich people can't even think of how to spend it.
Referring to what Palop said “our death may have something in common with our economical status but will never be directly influenced by this.” I think that the whole purpose of the film is to bring down an argument like that one because even if we don't work with time, we can still see children in undeveloped countries dying of hunger and disease every minute while we only have to worry about what to do in our free time.
In my opinion, this film is trying to open our eyes to what is happening in the world as it happens to the girl that realizes how the world she lives in is ruled and decides to make a change by risking her own life in multiple occasions.
From where I sit, it is an incredible film worth watching for everyone at any age.
I have recently seen this film and I consider that the overall idea behind it, is great as it revolves around people surviving with time instead of with money. Relating this film with our real life I think that it would be horrible to just live till the age of 25 physically but mentally getting older as in my opinion these two aspects have to grow up together. If I where to live eternally I'm sure I would get exhausted due to living for so long time, as in my forecast I think that after 100 years of living, there is not much things to do as you have already felt and seen everything or not?
ReplyDeleteGetting to the point, I totally agree that we live in an unfair world ruled by rich people because they are the ones who control the society. Moreover, although we should make a change and think about making an utopia it’s impossible as you can’t make perfection.
On the other hand, what we can do is use our time instead of wasting it. This statement is the overall message that the film In Time is trying to give us, which makes us appreciate even more each second of our life.
I totally agree with the idea that time is running and we must not let it go. Our world is dying and we all sense it is the beginning of the end. We are being lead by politicians to a dead future. Will their selfishness win this battle?
ReplyDeleteIn our world we can't gain or exchange time, therefore we must use it well. Society has to face the fact that we are living our last-healthy-earth years. Someone will sometime look back and say 'Wish we would have changed'. No one will discover or create no time machine,there will be no Daddy to asume responsabilities and no rescue-me-planet.
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Georgina Bastida
I think that we live in a very unfair world where money is the key to freedom. One of the reasons why I most like this film is because it's a real example of nowadays, where money plays an important role in our life’s. This film plays with this idea by using time instead of money as a currency, so when you run out of time you eventually die. I personally think that this is really unfair because it means that for having rich people with millions of unnecessary years to live, others have to die, and in my opinion nobody has to die to make other people rich. However, moving to real life we should consider the idea of being ruled by the most powerful people, in other words, by money.
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David, Georgina (and all), your entries are chilling and thought-provoking. Well done.
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