Now everyone being a hyperbole before we get trolls, but wouldn't the average person just keep working and live forever? They make it sound like only the rich can live but in today's world wouldn't the average middle class worker just work forever in their office job instead of retiring and live forever?
I know the movie is a metaphor of rich vs poor but they ignore the middle class all together
Apparently in that world there is the same issue as what we have in the real world: there are more people than there are jobs, so people die every now and then (there are a couple of "random" deaths in the movie).
shareThe people that died in the movie for the most part were the lower class workers who were living paycheck to paycheck (literally).
What I'm talking about is that JT made it sound like an elite few wealthy people got to live forever. But what about all the middle class workers? You know the wife and two kids and a picket fence people. They are far from rich but can have their car break down without having their finances crumble. Wouldn't those people just work forever in their 9-5 cube job and never die?
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the price of everything keeps rising.. just like today's world.. the middle class is slowly getting swept away..
shareCan you imagine the hell it would literally be if some schlub managed to live for a few centuries stuck in the same dead end job? Literally just making enough to stay alive? Might be WORSE than death?
shareSolid point. Henry Hamilton, the man who gave Will Salas a century of time credits, was probably a film critic.
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