Review: In Time

For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past few months, the country has recently seen the rise of a new protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street (seriously, if you haven’t heard of this yet you need to put down that Xbox controller right now and go outside for a few minutes).  This movement takes the stance that the top %1 of the country controls well above 90% of the wealth and political influence in the country.

As someone who is concerned with all things geek, it is rare that I find myself in the world of politics (in my writing, at least).  I certainly didn’t expect to find myself there when I ventured to my local theater tonight to see In Time, the new dystopian sci-fi film starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. But there I was, as this movie could just has easily have been titled Occupy Dystopian Future, or something similar. Read more