how did people under 25 buy stuff?
If their clock turned on at age 25 how did they buy stuff before that? If they had no one to give them things before age 25 would they just starve and die?
shareHow do children survive now?
shareI guess you are implying their parents pay for them. If their parents pay for everything until they hit 25, it means a 24 year old man couldn't buy a cup of coffee or take the bus without one of his parents there to pay for it. A better explanation is that people under 25 use those metallic devises to store and spend time until their arm activates. I guess you just wanted to insult the OP with your post though, so whatever. Sweet burn dude, that'll teach him. He should know better than to watch movies and then ask questions about those movies.
shareI agree .. massive plot hole. Unless there was some kind of government alotment for them. But in that case you would imagine some would have a LOT of children and pretty much starve them for time. But children seemed rare (and the rich probably wanted it that way) so maybe having a child took a very special kind of dedication.. and you have to wonder what his mom did all those years to support him and to survive an extra 25 years.
sharePer your comment:
You mean like some (not all, but definitely: Some) foster parents? Don't think for a moment that what motivates people today (especially vis: government "funding") won't motivate in our increasingly government-driven economy.
This is one form for the multitude of questions/philosophies/imperatives at the heart of "In Life."
The movie asks huge, profound, vital questions. But it then tries to answer them in the span of the common attention span of a theater audience.
BTW, in answer to your question "What his mom did all those years to support him and to survive an extra 25 years?" She bartered years of her own life for the resources she needed. That's a mother's imperative. That's why Will is so appreciative of his mother. That is what makes "In Time" worth watching; clumsy, ham-handed and badly-edited as it is, "In Time" tells this story: The future is worth creating.
I don't think under 25'ers had any type of time receptacle device or any means of spending their own time because the alchoholic-friends-wife looked at her infant child clock and said something along the lines of "look at all that time and he can't spend it until 25 I wish we could now" [or whatever]. It also tells us; at least some poor/middle-class people where still having babies.
I think its strange this movie, which is pretty good, made it through without ever addressing this question.
There is this sequence in which Will gives five minutes to that little girl. That time is not paid into her arm clock, but into one of these containers that are used to "encapsulate" (that word is mentioned by one of the timekeepers) time. This sequence clearly shows that children can conduct time transactions, just not on their own clock.
shareGood spot! Forgot about how Will gave those minutes to the girl.
Just watched the film and was wondering how young 'uns under 25 (that is young) could pay for anything. Would be a bit of a hassle when you're 24 and need one of your parents along to a bar to buy a beer for your mates :-)