“I don’t have time, I don’t have time to worry about how it happened. It is what it is. We genetically engineered to stop aging at twenty-five. The trouble is we live one more year unless we can get more time. Time is not a currency. We earn it and spend it. The rich can live forever. The rest of us, I just wanna wake up with more time on my hand and hours in the day.” With these words of the main character the movie begins. This foreword gives us a clue of the plot of the film that is timely nowadays. The film is about the main general value in our live – time. It is “must watch” in the modern society, where people forget that time is priceless and just waste it. The action happens in 2169, where people are born with a digital clock on their forearm. At …show more content…
There are different “time-zones” based on the wealth of the population. The main character Will Salas is from the poor area where people have twenty-four or even less hours left. He is an ordinary manufactory worker who lives in a small apartment with his mother. Once Will with his friend were in the local bar and met a rich guy who paid for everybody’s drinks that night. Will warned him that there were lots of robberies, but the guy did not listen to him. When local gangs “Minutemen” came, Will saved this rich guy and led him to a secret place. This guy, whose name was Hamilton, said important words: “The truth is there is more time than enough. No one has to die before the time.” He explained that people from the rich area “New Greenwich” increased prices in poor areas for purpose to hoard more time for them. These people can live forever when others from poor “time-zones” keep dying. Hamilton gave all his one hundred and five years to Will when he was sleeping and left a note on a window not to waste this time. With only five minutes on the clock Hamilton left this place. By the time Will woke up, this guy was already on the nearest bridge. Will was too late to stop Hamilton