“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
Hamilton also detected the smuggling that was going on and he decided to put an end to it as it would have
The meaning of life in Ikiru (1952) is expressed by the title of the film, which is translated to mean “to live.” Deceptively simple, complexity arises in how one is to live meaningfully, and this question is at the heart (or stomach) of Kanji Watanabe’s story. Introduced to the audience as a bored, superficially busy bureaucrat, Watanabe merely exists. The omniscient narrator presents Watanabe as one who hardly does that and has, in fact, been dead for the past twenty-five years. Only when forced to face his imminent death does Watanabe stir himself out of the comfort of passive existence and into a pursuit for meaning.
At this moment, the main character realizes that not everybody who has plenty of money is
The speaker has no answers of how to get back the time lost, but rather how to use it. This epiphany strikes the speaker and reader in unison, showing how time causes people to realize their lost potential stating not to waste the little time
Even the richest man in the world can be unsatisfied because they are missing that love from their family or they might not even have a family in the first. However, ¨A Summer Night¨ The Millionaire suicide is about a rich man tending to buy that missing puzzle piece in their heart with money. Most people don't know that rich people are depressed because they don't have that capacity of understanding that life isn't always going to be about money. That's why¨A
The central theme of the film Run Lola Run aims to portray the interrelation of action, ‘The Butterfly Effect’ while also treating life as a playable a game of chance. Run Lola Run opens with two quotes;
What is life? Is it a fantastic journey filled with twists and happy endings, or is it a cynical, pointless existence led by mere clusters of atoms with no more meaning than a grain of sand? The 2003 film, Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton, addresses these questions by contrasting a pessimistic view of the world with an optimistic vision filled with wonder and fantasy. It tells its audience that life can be seen from different perspectives that are open to those willing to look for them. Big Fish uses comprehensive narrative elements and thought-provoking symbolism to express that the world can be viewed in vastly different ways which are subject to change.
Imagine your life as an “eternal Hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again” . Philosopher Nietzsche explained on the idea and viewed life as a reoccurrence. He had a theory that all events in your lifetime will reoccur again and again. The film Groundhog Day as a similar event happened to the main character Phil where he is reliving the same day over and over. In my essay I will explain the similar and differences from Nietzsche eternal return and the film Groundhog Day .
There are so many books being read in school that don’t tell young people what is going on in this world, people need to be educated and not have their time wasted. This text is perfect for that purpose, not only is it intriguing but good practical knowledge. Few things in life will be repeated for generations, make what is passed on
Believing the relationship between the temporality and narrativity is reciprocal, Paul Ricouer coins the term, narrative time, to challenge the ordinary representation of time. He believes it is individuals’ concern that determines the narrative time in different degrees of temporal organization, and forms individual, as well as collective identity. F. S. Fitzgerald’s “the Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, stands out to be an appropriate text, showing the impact of time on narrative and identity. On one hand, it, as a magical realistic story whose protagonist owns chronological time exactly in reverse of the cosmological time, directly dismantles the traditional fashion of time, and reinforces the identity of Baltimore upper class; and on the
The film starts out with an African American man walking in the suburbs. He sees a car and is frightened. A person in a hood strangles him from behind and kidnaps him. This illustrates the fear African Americans have in a white society. The movie then fasts forwards to New York City and turns the focus on Chris who is a successful young photographer.
Instead of depicting the story development gradually like most modern films do, it only captures the most essential plots, making the pace much faster and more intense, thus successfully catches the spectators’ attention and arouses their emotions. Additionally, this film applied innovative techniques including on-site shooting and frequent camera movements, rather than fixed position shooting, thus breaking the traditional stage drama restrictions. The style of the whole film style is compact, and montage editing techniques also contribute to the construction of atmosphere. This film is a great success in the cinematic history and an great example explaining the concept of “cinema of
In the movie ‘In time’ directed by Andrew Niccol, Niccol aims to to show and represent the instincts and flaws of human nature. The main character Will Salas, loses his mother to the system his society runs on. The system is made up of the death of poor people so that the wealthy can live forever. During the scene of Will and Sylvia Running to the next time zone and Leon chasing them, Niccol’s aim is shown through the use of camera angles such as- tracking, wide and mid shot etc. Gestures and facial expressions, lighting and colour, Music and sound.
The protagonist in the movie finds comfort in an image of a woman’s face from his past which, when faced with a trip to his future, makes him reluctant to leave this past image. Also, throughout
In other words, the good life means to me when life looks like a blessing than a burden. This essay aims to provide more than one answers about what makes people live a good life mean. Human beings, since their apparition is often misleading, what it is really mean a good life. We have been seen on the television or magazines that having a good life means being rich or famous when many of them, in reality, are miserable by a problem that wouldn’t affect ordinary people. Personally, I believe that there are many factors that should be considered when it comes to a good life.