...Takes Away the Life.

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2011)

I thought "In Time" had a subliminal capitalism theme.
Most people in the USA are born into the capitalistic market.
Most people, at least in the USA, will, at some age, enter the capitalistic market seeking to sustain their life: where else is there to go? Years ago, man had his land. He could provide for himself and his family. Sons would inherit their father's land and have to provide for themselves and their families. Somewhere, man left his land. Maybe the promise of an easier way to make a living with promises of good wages, benefits, and pensions lured them to sell their own means of making a livelihood. Sons no longer had their fathers land, they now entered in and began their lives on another man's land.
Some may say, "Where is the promise?" "Where is my good wage, my benefits, my pension, and early retirement?" Some may be living the promise; others may be living the promise only to find the promise not as promising as they thought it would be. And others find the promise only for the promise to break its promise.
The market system can be like playing "Monopoly." You start off with $200.00 (at least when we played, newer versions may start you off with more). Every time you pass go, you get $200.00. Right off the bat, you may have to pay taxes. You might have to pay doctor's fees, or you may get assessed a certain amount for repairs. If you're lucky, you might receive money: a stock dividend pays out, you get an income tax refund, or some miscellaneous money is given to you.
Most people play with the aim to buy property, put houses on them, trade the houses up and put hotels on the property - and make money!!! I tried playing "Monopoly" without buying up all the land and putting hotels on them. I received my wage, I bought some land, I put a house on it, then, I just wanted to get around the board. It got difficult. It was becoming extremely difficult to get around the board without landing on properties that had hotels that charged me extremely much for landing on their property. Favor helped at times, I received the "pot" in the middle, or I received from a "community chest." Going to jail seemed to be a blessing; at least I didn't have to land on someone's property.
In the movie, there was a quote, something like, "The poor die, and the rich don't live." In our game of "Monopoly," those who bought all the land and were putting hotels on them and trying to make money and win, also, had to avoid each others land. They were sweating it. They were counting their money and trying to determine where the roll of the die would put them. They were gaining money, and losing money, and trying to make deals to get themselves ahead - and even at times, looking at my little piece of land and wanting it so they could add it to there's and make more money.
Friendships can be made, not only the poor looking to the rich, but the rich looking to the poor. "If you sell me your property, and you land on my property, I won't make you pay." That sounds like a deal, that sounds like I get to stay alive. I would have to give up my property, they now can establish a monopoly, but they promise I don't have to pay if I land on anything that belongs to them.
I played till I died.
The market does not within itself have to be evil. It's not the market, it's man. Ezekiel 7:11 says, "Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness." The word violence translates into "unjust gain." Proverbs 1:19 says, "So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof." Greed takes away the life. Unjust gain is violent.
I saw at the market the other day, a bag of potatoes costing over $7.00. Someone making minimum wage will have to work one hour for one bag of potatoes.
There was another quote in the movie, something like, "Many have to die, so a few can live forever." Greed takes way the life.
In "In Time," people lived, died, timed-out, expired, killed, loved, gave and stole seeking to sustain their life.
Revelation 13:16-18 says, "...And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." "In Time" and "End Time" reveal to what and whom man belongs.