In Time (previously titled Now and I'm.mortal)[3] is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action film starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, and Vincent Kartheiser. The film, written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol, was released on October 28, 2011. The film was met with mixed reviews from critics but became a box office success.
Plot
By 2161, genetic alteration has allowed humanity to stop aging at 25
but people are required to earn more time after turning 25 or die within
a year. 'Living time', which can be transferred among individuals, has
replaced money and its availability is displayed on an implant on
people's lower arm. When that clock reaches zero, one dies instantly.
Society is divided by social class living in specialized towns called
'Time Zones'. The poor live in the ghettos of Dayton, where youth
predominates, and must work each day to earn a few more hours of life,
which they must also use to pay for everyday necessities. The rich live
in the luxurious city-like town called New Greenwich, in which the middle-aged and elderly
predominate, though they looked young because they have stopped aging
at 25 years old. They drive fast electric cars, and can live for
centuries.
28-year-old factory worker Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives with his mother Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) in the ghettos. One day, Will saves rich 105-year-old Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer)
from suffering a time-robbery assault in a bar where he flaunts his
time around buying people drinks. Hamilton is attacked by Fortis (Alex Pettyfer), the elderly British
mobster boss of a middle-aged gang called the Minutemen. Will leads
Hamilton to safety, where Hamilton says to Will, "For few to be
immortal, many must die", as there is essentially enough time for
everyone to live a full life, but it is stockpiled for the rich to
become immortal. An upset Will argues that no one should die before
their time naturally ends so that others may live, upon which Hamilton
describes how he no longer even desires life, in saying "your mind is
worn out, even though your body may not be. We want, we need, to die."
Later that night, Hamilton transfers 116 years to the sleeping Will,
keeping only five minutes for himself, which he uses to go and sit on a
ledge on a bridge. As his time expires, Hamilton falls into the river
below. Will arrives too late to save him, realizes he has been filmed by
a nearby surveillance camera, and flees the area. Resident police
force, the Timekeepers, have various theories as to his death. A young
timekeeper, Timekeeper Jaeger (Collins Pennie), correctly assumes Hamilton had "timed out", a.k.a. killed himself, but a middle-aged veteran Timekeeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy), is convinced he was murdered by a Dayton resident.
Will waits for his mother at a bus station, only to discover that she
didn't have enough time to pay for her usual bus ride after the price
suddenly increased. He rushes down the street to find her. They
encounter each other on foot, and as she runs and leaps into his arms,
her time expires before her son can help her and she dies in his arms.
Remembering what Hamilton told him about the inequity of the time
system, Will decides to seek revenge, and leaves for New Greenwich, with
over a century on his clock. Upon arrival, he enters a casino, where he
meets an old millionaire, time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) and his daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried).
Sylvia becomes interested in Will after a tense gambling table showdown
where Will beats her father in poker with only one second to spare on
his clock, winning 1,100 years in the process. She invites Will to a
party at her father's mansion.
At the mansion, Will is apprehended by Leon, who confiscates all of
his time, spare two hours. Will then escapes taking Sylvia hostage.
Returning to the ghetto with her, he drives into an ambush of Fortis,
who, in disappointment to find that the unconscious Will was in
possession of Hamilton's time but lost it, steals most of Sylvia's, only
failing to take the last half hour as the approach of the Timekeepers
forces him to leave the scene. Will returns to consciousness and gives
Sylvia some of his remaining time so they can return to his old
neighborhood. They first visit Borel to retrieve some time Will gave him
earlier, only to find out from Borel's grief-stricken wife, Greta (Yaya DaCosta),
that he drank himself to death with 9 years on his clock. Sylvia pawns
her jewelry for the meager price of 2 days. Finding themselves a
shelter, Will calls Weis demanding a 1,000 years' ransom for Sylvia, to
be distributed to the people of the ghetto. Leon traces Will's location
from his phone call, and heads to Dayton in pursuit.
The following day, as Will prepares to release Sylvia, he discovers
that Weis did not pay the ransom, but Will decides to let Sylvia go
regardless. Leon appears and almost kills Will, but is shot in the
shoulder by Sylvia. Will then transfers four hours of time to the
disarmed Leon so that he is able to walk out of Dayton before he "times
out". Will and Sylvia escape in Leon's car. Later, Will tells her that
she still has a chance to walk away from the situation, but she decides
to remain by his side, saying there is no purpose to the life she once
had in New Greenwich. They begin a series of Time Bank robberies,
stealing the Time Capsules which store time equivalents and distributing
them to the poor, getting a bounty of 10 years on their heads. Fortis
eventually tracks down Will and Sylvia a second time, and challenges
Will to a Time Fight. Will dominates the fight by using the technique he
learned from his late father, then shoots the remaining Minutemen while
Fortis dies in the time fight, his time transferred to Will.
Will and Sylvia realize their previous efforts were futile, as the
rich have the power to simply increase the cost of living in the ghettos
to maintain the status quo. They succeed in stealing a million
years from Weis' private headquarters in a Time Capsule, escaping all
resistance on their way out and reaching Dayton. Upon arrival, Leon
crashes his car into Will's, but Will is able to hand the Time Capsule
to a young girl who then distributes the time among the people. Leon
eventually catches up with Will and Sylvia outside the city, holding
them at gunpoint. Will jokingly asks Leon to return some of the time he
previously loaned him so that they can survive 'til their executions,
but Leon realizes that he had neglected to replenish his own time before
going after them, and dies. Will and Sylvia are left with seconds to
live. Will runs to Leon's car and takes his allotted time. In a scene
mirroring his mother's death, Will transfers the time to Sylvia seconds
before she is about to die.
Will and Sylvia continue robbing banks as part of their efforts to
crash the system, now with a bounty of 100 years on their heads, while
the rich attempt to cope with the sudden surge of people who now have
enough time to change zones arriving from the ghettos. A news broadcast
shows the factories, in which Will once worked, are no longer in action.
Factory workers, now rich with Time, cross Time Zones while the Time
Keepers become observers instead of enforcers.
The last scene reveals that Will and Sylvia are going to rob an obscenely huge Time Bank in order to keep disrupting the system.
Cast
- Justin Timberlake as Will Salas
- Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis
- Cillian Murphy as Timekeeper Raymond León
- Shyloh Oostwald as Maya
- Olivia Wilde as Rachel Salas
- Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton
- Christiann Castellanos as Jasmine
- Alex Pettyfer as Fortis
- La Monde Byrd as Minuteman Rado
- Paul David Story as Minuteman Roth
- Johnny Galecki as Borel
- Vincent Kartheiser as Philippe Weis
- Rachel Roberts as Carrera
- Ethan Peck as Constantine
- Yaya DaCosta as Greta
- August Emerson as Levi, The Priest
- Sasha Pivovarova as Clammy
- Bella Heathcote as Michele Weis
- Toby Hemingway as Timekeeper Kors
- Jessica Parker Kennedy as Edouarda
- Collins Pennie as Timekeeper Jaeger
- Christoph Sanders as Nixon
- Faye Kingslee as Timekeeper Jean
- Jeff Staron as Oris
Production
On July 12, 2010, it was reported that Amanda Seyfried had been offered a lead role.[4] On July 27, 2010, it was confirmed that Justin Timberlake had been offered a lead role.[5] On August 9, 2010, Cillian Murphy was confirmed to have joined the cast.[6]
The first photos from the set were revealed on October 28, 2010.[7] 20th Century Fox and New Regency distributed the film, and Marc Abraham and Eric Newman's Strike Entertainment produced it.[8]
In an interview with Kristopher Tapley of InContention.com Roger Deakins
stated that he would be shooting the film in digital, which makes this
the first film to be shot in digital by the veteran cinematographer.[9]
The Dayton scenes were filmed primarily in the Skid Row and Boyle Heights neighborhoods of Los Angeles, while the New Greenwich scenes were filmed primarily in Century City, Bel Air, and Malibu.
Plagiarism suit
On September 15, 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a suit was filed by attorneys on behalf of speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison that the plot of the movie was based on his award-winning 1965 short-story, ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman".
The suit, naming New Regency and director Andrew Niccol as well as a
number of anonymous John Does, appears to base its claim on the
similarity that both the completed film along with Ellison's story
concern a dystopian future in which people have a set amount of time to
live which can be revoked, given certain pertaining circumstances by a
recognized authority known as a Timekeeper. Initially, the suit demanded
an injunction against the film's release;[10] however, Ellison later altered his suit to instead ask for screen credit[11] before ultimately dropping the suit, with both sides releasing the following joint statement: "After seeing the film In Time,
Harlan Ellison decided to voluntarily dismiss the Action. No payment or
screen credit was promised or given to Harlan Ellison. The parties wish
each other well, and have no further comment on the matter."[12]
Reception
The film opened in third place, behind Puss in Boots and Paranormal Activity 3, with $12 million.[13] The movie has made over $160 million worldwide ($37.5 million domestically).[2]
The film received mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
reports that 37% of 150 critics gave the movie a positive review, with a
rating average of 5.2 out of 10. The website's consensus reads, "In Time's intriguing premise and appealing cast are easily overpowered by the blunt, heavy-handed storytelling." [14] Metacritic,
which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from
mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 53 based on 36 reviews.[15] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "B-minus" on an A+ to F scale.[13]
Not all reviews were mixed: Roger Ebert
gave the film 3 stars out of 4, noting that the "premise is damnably
intriguing", but "a great deal of this film has been assembled from
standard elements".[16]
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