IN TIME -> Just A Sec - Movie Review

'I am Time, the all destroyer !'

                                   - God Vishnu in Bhagvada Geeta.

' We do him in the hospital ! '

                        - A Seattle Police Woman over the phone.

PROLOGUE 

This is a movie about a factor in our lives,  the demand for which increases exponentially as one grows up in a technology heavy world. This factor is called TIME because everything is due yesterday and we are always 'behind' in our projects. Weekends, nights, months and years pass you by. You grow old and wrinkled working , working , working.....or looking for work!

The only direct measure of time you have spent in the workplace is your bank balance - but the villains in your lives have an eye on that too ! They are waiting to STEAL your TIME by hook or by crook ! And if you do not have enough money in your bank, you will be nearer to death because you might not have money to pay the hospital bills and you might not have a place to live. You might find peace on the 'bed' in the morgue !! You see, you have run out of TIME.

SYNOPSIS

Which brings us to this movie. In the future 'world' of this movie, the characters each have a digital clock embedded inside and the time remaining in their lives is displayed on their left arm. The factory workers get paid in hours and not cash - each day they work they get a few hours added to their lives. Each purchase deducts a few minutes from their lives. So you see many people lying dead on the streets even at a young age because they have spent all their time. The hero (Justin Timberlake) schedules a dinner with his mom but as she gets delayed due to traffic she runs to her son's arm and dies as the clock on her arm shows 'zero' and the display on her arm becomes blank !!

There are bullies and hooligans who steal time from innocent people by forcibly holding their right arm at gun point as the time gets transferred into their own bodies. The heroine's dad is the main villain - he own a bank that has vast amounts of time inside small devices  which the poor can purchase on loan !! The rich, you see, live forever. The heroine's  dad and mom look as young as her. They do not age. And they keep the poor working by withholding 'Time' !

There is a young gentleman, whom our hero saves from an encounter in a bar. This gentleman is 105 years old and is tired of life. He transfers a millennium worth of time into the hero's body and dies....

So the movie shows us, by discussing various scenarios, what would happen in a world where Time is  the currency!! Which also makes me wonder, are there people even now who think like the rich in the movie.