Hey, it's Occupy Wall Street the movie

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2011)

With just a little sf concept — time is money, becomes money is time — this movie highlights income inequality and global disparity between the haves and have-nots in different zones.
Perfect timing, this film hits the zeitgeist.
It's also time to rewatch writer, director Andrew Niccol's other high concept sf film "Gattaca" with Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
"In Time," is notable for casting and costuming and an sf film that focuses on faces and film angles over special effects.
Vincent Kartheiser plays an intriguing Philippe Weis, an 85-year-old, 25-year-old time millionaire who expects to remain immortal. Kartheiser nails this with perfect stillness, those "from time" do everything slow, and an eerie, older than his appearance, demeanor.
Don't get what the Occupy protests are about? Philippe Weis could spare his first million to ransom his daughter. "It's nothing to us," his wife says. But Weis refuses. It would break the system that holds him in a bubble at the top.
Speaking of bubbles, Amanda Seyfried could be cast in the film version of Scott Westerfeld's "Pretties" — no CGI required. Funniest line: "We make a cute couple," Sylvia Weis says upon seeing her wanted poster. True! Pairs well with these reads: Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" (intrigued or confused by Cillian Murphy's dedicated timekeeper character? Look for Javier the fanatic police inspector in "Les Misérables".), Marta Randall's "Islands" (which also explores how humanity would be effected by immortality), and Harlan Ellison's short story anthology "Paingod and Other Delusions" (Ellison said "In Time" was too similar to his short story "Repent, Harlequin! said the Ticktockman" — the time as money idea is unique, but "In Time" is a much more linear take — still, its a good excuse to read the story and also "Wanted in Surgery" from Ellison's collection).
Aside from the sf conceit that places clocks on our arms, "In Time," captures the harshness of institutionalized, systematic income inequality. The most fictional element of the film: how Sylvia Weis ran in those shoes.