But in this film, the idea is more about the planet and the species. Rudolph has created a glitzy, blindingly vibrant, media circus frenzied, hollow and shallow world for Trout and Hoover to inhabit. Make us young again. Make the planet young again. Give us a second chance.
Life is all about the here and now.
Our perspective is skewed. We cannot see the future and the past slips away from us easily. We don't get second chances. What we do today effects tomorrow, whether we can see it today or not. This is the nature of existence.