Truthful, but understated

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2012)

The movie was done rather well, even though it could've been longer and more thought out, especially towards the end. The premise is set sometime in the future, but obviously portrays a world that is similar to our reality. Ie: The rich control too much of the wealth (time/life/money) while the poor starve and suffer thanks to the immoral social rationality and misguided idealism this/that world chooses to poison itself with. Will Salas (J. Timberlake) is a normal young man from a very poverty stricken part of the world who happens upon a fortune (great amount of time) by saving a stranger's life. A man seeking to end his time on Earth (simply because he is tired of living) gives his remaining time to Will, seeing that he will put it to better use than he can. This sets off a chain of events where Will meets the Weis family (most notably Sylvia- the female lead) and then begins to understand, firsthand, the ways in which the rich flaunt and hoard the wealth that could so easily save millions (ie: the ways the rich rationalize their situation/s to ease their conscience so as to block out the atrocities they indirectly cause). The rest of the movie is somewhat underwhelming with a good love story and a great moral message. The main point the directors try to convey (speaking directly to the world we live in), is that while money is infinite, wealth is finite. At a certain point if you have to much of it, you are stealing, albeit indirectly, from the rest of the population. Who, by the way, have just as much right to exist as anyone else, including the rich (most of whom were born into it). No matter what your last name is, who your parents are, how smart you are, where you were born, what color you are, etc.... if you are born of good circumstance, it is a position of responsibility and not of power. Therefore, taking advantage of it is, in fact, immoral. Honestly, the movie was bland and the acting so-so. But, the message of this movie is vastly understated. It is one that this world should heed before it's own greed suffocates the very freedom our ancestors fought to preserve: That those who were born with everything have an innate responsibility to share with those who were born with nothing. That, in our current system, all of us no longer have a right to life, liberty, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.