Re-constructing "In Time"
Re-constructing "In Time" You remember the Justin Timberlake starrer movie “In time”? The concept of the movie caught my attention at once. In Time Picture Courtesy: www.imdb.com Let me refresh a little about the plot of the movie that moves around the “time-is-currency system”, which is established as a means of population control. But with advances in anti-aging processes, people were still surviving. Inflation and lower ‘wages’ were designed to keep the population in control. A person can stop ageing at 25, but after that one is genetically engineered to live only one year extra. Time is the medium of exchange to buy things and get paid at work. Once your time runs out, you are dead. The poor live in ghettos struggling for their daily share of time, while the rich in the New Greenwich zone are almost immortal with huge stock of time in their accounts. Though she was born in the richest family, Sylvia (lead actress of the movie) never got the chance to live her li