Reflection Of The Movie In Time

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Criteria A The movie In Time was Directed and written by Andrew Niccol in 2011. The movie 's main premise is that in the future humans are now engineered to stop aging at 25 years and given one more year to live. In this universe time has now a double value as it is used economically to make exchanges but it also represents the time till your death. As a result, society have been divided groups, some live with minimum wages which puts them every day on the brink of death, but also a small group of people who get to live forever and live in the highest of luxuries. Which makes it a question, how is the movie In Time, a reflection of the life’s of American citizens in respect to their socioeconomic status of the United States between 2010-2016?. …show more content…

“I don’t have time, I don’t have time to care how it came to be this way is just how things are, and I just wish that I had more time than hours in a day 's.” The rich stay a life and everyone else has to work to earn some more or die, as time now is both life and currency. Will lives in the ghetto most of its population lives day to day, as shown by Will’s clock if he doesn 't earn time today he’ll die. The story continues with Will heads off to work, on his way he find his friend Borel making line to get their morning 's coffee, just as they reach the front of the line, the coffee increases in price from three minutes to four minutes, although it may not seem as much we have to remember Will only has almost a day worth of time and any expense put him closer to that deadly zero seconds …show more content…

Each Time Zone concentrates people of similar income together, and offers products, services and jobs according to the usual income they have. Dayton houses mostly factory workers that work long shifts and get minimal pay just over a day which ensures they aren’t going anywhere, as they lack the time to pursue anything else. On the other hand the people of New Greenwich are mostly having college education position, lawyers, businessmen, engineers, doctors, and so on. They have years of surplus on their clocks and will hardly if ever been in the position of running out of time as long as they manage themselves. “Why do something now? What you could do it in a century,” Being one of their more popular phrases. In a similar manner U.S. housing divides zones by income building houses with similar price ranges together, this in turn causes people of whiting a close income range to live together. As consequence of this rich, middle-income and poor neighborhoods are created, as is the case of Harlem and Upper East Side in New York City. While this mostly causes no mayor issues it does create spaces of concentrated poverty and in turn ghettos. This places act in a similar fashion both on movie and the U.S., Ghettos promote

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