Forget Logan’s Run, where the state kills you off at age 30 and you leave a pretty corpse. In the world of In Time, you stop aging at age 25. Not to shabby, right? Unfortunately, you’re dead by 26, unless you’re able to “earn” a longer life. Salaries, interest rates, food and shelter, all are measured out by seconds, minutes, hours…and for the wealthy that can afford it, months and years. (Suddenly my latte addiction seems unimportant. “Caffeine will take years off your life”, indeed.) So the wealthy can live forever, while the poor are reduced to living in ghettos and running everywhere to save what little time they have. And hey, wouldn’t you want to live forever if you looked like Justin Timberlake or Amanda Seyfried?
