In Time! Drawing Parallels between Future and Fiction

In Time! Drawing Parallels between Future and Fiction

Some of you movie buffs would have heard of the movie - In Time. A 2011 sci-fi movie starring Justin Timberlake (he should stick to singing) and Amanda Seyfried. In Time is set in a distant future with Justin Timberlake playing the protagonist, Will Salas. The story starts in the year 2169 to be precise, where time is money (yes, literally money). The time you have at your disposal keeps you alive and pays for your meals at the same time... You are dead if you run out of it. People born in that movie are genetically engineered to have a ticking digital countdown timer in their forearms.....


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