The world view of the film is based on a future world where medicine is highly developed, when human beings crack the secrets of aging and death. Advanced medicine makes people completely get rid of aging, every citizen will be "frozen age" when they grow up to twenty-five years old, and the body maintains a stable physiological function and appearance. It sounds like the perfect life every young girl dreams of. But the social problems he brings are also unavoidable and especially serious - the world's population is surging unabated. The authorities' solution is astonishing: use time to outlaw the concept of money - time becomes the universal and only currency that can be exchanged for goods and services, and can also be gifted and looted. However, human time is limited: every newborn baby is implanted with a "clock". After the age of twenty-five, the "clock" that originally stopped at "one year" begins to count down, and the moment the "clock" is cleared, it will cause life. the end of.
The male protagonist Will was born in a slum, where everyone runs around every day to earn time and live on the edge of life and death. Will's clock is always hovering for about a day, living as hard as the people around him, until one day, he accidentally obtained a century of time, and because of this, he was suspected of murder and was chased by the time police. Witnessing his mother's clock reset to zero and dying without being able to save himself, Will decides to break the pattern of the world, reverse the morbid order, and embark on an adventure. Will, who gained a lot of wealth, crossed the "time zone" to the Xingeling area where the rich live, and met the heroine Suvia by chance. and sparked love with it. The two experienced a series of escapes and counterattacks, and gradually transformed into a thief who robbed the rich and helped the poor.
From a creative point of view, the concept of "time is value, time is life" goes beyond ordinary sci-fi movies and rises to the category of philosophical sociology and anthropology discussions. Some people resonate.
In Marx's "Das Kapital", it is proposed that the value of commodities is determined by the socially necessary labor time. In essence, the process of creating value is a process of consuming time. People in the world run around all day to earn value, but it is also to prolong the time of life. Using time as a currency is logical and more direct and profound. The clocks of the people in the slums are always hovering between minutes and seconds, which can also intuitively reflect the bloody reality proposition that "the threat of poverty equals death".
In the virtual future world of the film, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, and the class solidification is extremely serious. The rich manipulate the market, continuously increase the cost of living, squeeze the time of the poor, and indirectly destroy lives, in order to accumulate a lot of time and wealth for their own enjoyment. The wealthy in the Xingeling District have spent millions of years squandering their time, but the slums are devastated, full of despair and darkness. It takes a huge amount of time and wealth to travel across time zones, which the poor cannot afford. The reality of the immobility of classes reproduces the huge social unrest caused by the accumulation of clan wealth before the First World War.
From the plot point of view, there are certain loopholes in the film's narrative and logic. The hero Will's revenge action lacks certain support. The later racing and gunfight scenes exaggerate the protagonist's halo and lack authenticity. A large number of action scenes dilute the philosophical nature of the film, which may be regarded as a compromise of a commercial film to the market.
On the whole, whether it is to explore the social assumption proposed by this film, or simply appreciate Amanda's super high value, you can get a pretty good viewing experience.
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