Dystopian hint.

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2012)

Being a student in school, i have created a opinion based on what i learn and what i view about the outside world. In our English course we have been discussing several topics which include Utopian society and dystopian society. This review is to describe how 'In Time' is relative to a dystopian society and how it portrays some realistic elements of the future. If you think about how the movie world relates to actual life, you will find similar aspects about how people choose to live their lives. In todays world there is about one percent of the population that run almost all the businesses and cash flow and about 60 percent live on or below the poverty line. This was exaggerated in the film by removing the involvement of money and replacing it with a given amount of time to live. i believe this movie is a very close comparison to what will happen in the future if the world is going down the same that it is today. We as people are so destructive by nature that eventually things are going to have to be controlled by a higher authority. The problem is that usually when people gain higher authority it becomes more about greed and less about what people as a whole want. I give this movie credit for being so realistic in the sense that this could very well happen in lets say 50-100 years. The use of technology in the actual world tends to put the progression of the human brain on hold and puts forth more energy to the advancement and replacement of new and improved technology. As my English teacher has said before, technology and the iphone might just be the end of the world as we know it. The quote "many must die, for few to be immortal," is said throughout the movie to re-ensure that Justin Timberlake understands that nothing will change. The only thing that will ever remain constant is change itself. This reminds me of Brave New World because the future is already planned, with everyone dedicated to a certain class. It is very hard to break out of the classes you are born into but something must change for the world to continue. I think every Utopian society has undeniable flaws that make it simply a dystopian reality.