At some future time, humans genetically stop aging at 25 years and have one year left to live unless they can secure extra time through willing or unwilling exchange of time with other humans. Time has become the only currency which is used for any purchases from a bus ride to...well...whatever. Time millionaires can live forever and the rest have to live in a grey dog eat dog world.
This is the premise of In Time which opens with Justin Timberlake's mother literally running out of time as she dies in her son's arms, or to be precise his fingertips. Timberlake is aged 27 in the movie and his mother has turned 50 but the movie does not explain how she reached that age when she does not appear to be a wealthy woman.
Never mind, this is not a movie for logic or explanations. I kept wondering what genetic principle had lead to humans having a high tech ten digit countdown clock glowing from their arms. Even more so I wondered how genetics 'knew' which person clasping arms with another was the one who was transferring time between them.
There is a lot of running in this film as everyone tries to beat time.
JT was on the French tv evening news recently to hawk the movie. He was quite mild mannered with the Clark Kent glasses to go with it. I wouldn't have recognized him.
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