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In Time (2011)

★ 7.0 · 12,102 ratings on TMDB

Live forever or die trying.

In Time poster★ 7.0

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

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In Time keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing inequality, class, power, exploitation, mortality.

zero-distanceUSinequalityclasspowerexploitationmortality
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10timetime functions as a universal fiat currency; each person carries a countdown that ends their life when it reaches zero, and time can be transferred, stored, or hoarded (social · universal)