Blog session 4:My favorite movie

There are many movies that I like, but I've decided that my favorite is one that I had to watch a few weeks ago to do a homework for a specialization elective. The name of the movie is In Time. This is an American science fiction action and suspense film from 2011 which is set in 2161 where people do not age after they have turned twenty-five, but if they do not get time after a year, they die instantly. Time can be earned by working as if it were money. Each person has a clock in their arm and each time someone gains time, the clock has more hours, minutes or seconds. The richest people can have a century on their clock, but poor people have only minutes and a few hours.

Will Salas is a young factory worker who is accused of murder after the police found a rich man named Henry Hamilton dead. Will was not guilty; Hamilton gave him his time before committing suicide. Will goes to the richest place in the city where he meets a businessman called Philippe Weis and his daughter Sylvia. Will and Sylvia try to end the system that makes poor people die young.

The movie was directed by Andrew Niccol and the actors are Justin Timberlake as Will Salas, Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis, Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton, Vincent Kartheiser as Philippe Weis, among others.

I like this movie because it has a striking aesthetic, a good plot and because it makes us think about how we spend our time.