Timely tale
Ageless agitators fight the power
Photos courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Did you know
Justin Timberlake was a child star in the TV show, The New Mickey Mouse Club.
In the new science fiction thriller In Time, an ordinary young man battles against corruption and intrigue in a dystopian future.
In a future where time literally is money, scientists have made it so that people stop aging at 25. However, each person has stamped on their arm a clock showing exactly how long they will live. The only way to stay alive longer is to earn, steal or inherit more time.
Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives minute-by-minute, until a windfall of time gives him access to the world of the wealthy, where he teams up with a beautiful young heiress named Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried). Working together, they aim to destroy the system that controls society.
Will soon finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the Timekeepers, as well as from a hoodlum-like mob called the Minutemen, led by 75-year-old senior citizen Fortis (Alex Pettyfer).
Catch the action and suspense when In Time hits cinemas on October 27.
Vocabulary
intrigue (n): an atmosphere of interest and excitement that surrounds something secret and important
dystopian (adj): describing a society in a repressive and controlled state, such as a police state where the police have unlimited power over the citizens
inherit (v): to receive money, property, etc, from somebody when they die
windfall (n): an amount of money that somebody wins or receives unexpectedly
hoodlum (n): a violent criminal, especially one who is part of a gang
