In time Reflection Paper - Reflective Summary, Essays (high school) of Philosophy

Download In time Reflection Paper - Reflective Summary and more Essays (high school) Philosophy in PDF only on Docsity! In Time (2011) Directed by: Andrew Niccol Sci-Fi, Action Movie review written by: Diosette Polinne Fabularum In Time (2011) Directed by: Andrew Niccol Sci-Fi, Action Tick, tock. Time is running out, especially to those of low social classes. To prevent the disruption of the system and to stop the people from turning into the desire-driven horde, it is the clock that keeps things stable. You can choose to simply go about your life, or maybe prolong it or even become an immortal? Set in a futuristic dystopian theme, “In Time” is a movie where time is an essential part of people’s lives. People are grouped depending on their social classes by different districts and time zones. The protagonist, Will Salas (played by Justin Timberlake) is a 28-year-old whose clock started, just like everyone else in the film, when he turned 25. He and his mom, Rachel (played by Olivia Wilde) live in the ghettos of Dayton, an industrial-looking time zone where people are having a hard time scraping off time. He has managed to collect a few years at his age, however, the cost of living in the ghetto only went up day by day. While Salas was out drinking with his friend, there he met Henry Hamilton, a wealthy man who purposely flashed his eye-catching time in the bar. Local time thugs suddenly appeared and wanted the wealthy man’s time for themselves. Rather than retreating like his friend Borel told him to do, he waited for an opportunity to save the rich stranger. However, saving the life of the man was all for naught since he was planning to die after living for so many years already. The stranger decides to give all of his time to Will while allowing some remaining time on him to run out while sitting on a bridge. The protagonist then heads to the wealthiest time zone, The “New Greenwich”. After winning a thousand worth of time in the casino he then meets Sylvia (played by Amanda Seyfried), the daughter of Philippe Weis, an extremely wealthy and powerful personality in the district who has been manipulating the poor by imposing high-interest time loans with each passing day. Mr. Weis was a believer of “Darwinian capitalism” (or much commonly known as “Social Darwinism”, a theory which also supports the concept of capitalism. It is all about competition, adaptation, variation, overproduction, and speciation.), he has millions of years stored, enough to make him immortal. However, his daughter Sylvia does not like the thought of living in the same setting for a long time. She thinks that there is more to life than the favored existence she knows. She is interested in Salas’ wild ideas of changing the unfair system which only favors the wealthy over the poor and allows a lot of people to die just to achieve “immortality”. After taking Sylvia as a hostage when the timekeeper was close to restraining him, it did not take too long when Sylvia agreed to Will’s propositions and it slowly turned into their mutual crusade. They start robbing banks and providing the stolen time to the poor that began to cripple the system and the down-and-out.