Well, it was a movie which my dear wanted to watch and as usual, after she read about how the story went. Even so, I quite like the thought-provoking concepts lying implicitly within the scenes, though I would rate the movie higher if there were more development of the characters. Then again, budget constraints may have resulted in that.
Anyway, the show had this concept about time being an asset and that one has to work in order to earn time to live beyond 25 years old. In a way, it is sort of a replacement for cash in our world. It started with the male lead living happily (sort of?) with his mum. But the show proceeded, showing in bits and pieces how inflation reduces the value of work with the amount of time earned by each person becoming lesser and the payment for items becoming more expensive. This so-called inflation resulted in the death of his mum as the male lead is unable to pass some time back to his mum.
Then the male lead managed to rescue another man from another time zone (social class in our context) from being robbed of his time. However, with a strong intent to die after living so long, he transferred his time to the male lead and committed suicide. This enabled the male lead to cross time zones and wanting to experience life with that much of a time. This also triggered the search for him by the time-keepers (law enforcers in our context) as he was linked to the death of the 'rich' man.
Well, in the process, the male lead caught the eye of the female lead as she found him unique in her own time zone. And by stroke of luck (and also the hand of the director), the male lead got to know the female lead much better after gambling with her dad. But like in any movie, it cannot be all that rosy and smooth-sailing and thus came in the timekeepers to arrest the male lead for possessing too much time and in the process his excess time was confiscated. To escape, he kidnapped the female lead and it soon turned into a car getaway with them escaping successfully.
The male lead then showed the female lead more of his life and later on, the female lead was heartbroken because the dad did not want to sacrifice his time for the ransom to save her. In retaliation, the male and female lead decided to rob the dad's company and distribute the wealth to the people of the lower social class. Well, in the end, both male and female lead continued their 'crimes' by robbing other companies of their 'time'.
In the movie, it was mentioned that many people had to die, so that a few others can live forever. In a way, it was like a mockery of our world, where most people are poor so that a few others are rich and it was sad that in such a system with inflation, the poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer. Another concept that was brought out was that time is relative, if time was spent wisely and happily, one day will be enough; whereas if time was spent in other ways, no amount of time will be enough and one will never be happy.
Well, in all, it was a nice serious sci-fi movie which we both enjoyed.
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