In Time

The time is ticking. Or more precisely, our life is ticking away.

This is an fascinating and creepy idea to begin with. Time is the currency of the world. You have a glowing digital watch countdown your time left on your arm. Watching human arms being ATM and life literally vanish by seconds made me feel uneasy.

It is an dark world, with only flickering candle light. You woke up with less an a day more to live. You had to spend that day working to earn one more day. Price of good keep rising but your salary goes the opposite way. There seem no way to get out of this vicious cycle. Time spent on earning more(or precisely less) time but you need it for survival. I guess no one can discuss the meaning of living when all your strength is used to fight for another breath of air. But despite all love thrives especially among those poor deprived folks.  The only light in eternal darkness.

I couldn't help to relate it to our world. The equation is time=money.

For a few to be immortal, many must die.

Will Salas said: "if one has to die, then no one should be immortal" 

Translated to our language,

For a few to be rich. many must stay poor.

So true. 

Ever heard of the joke that if Bill Gates drop 10 dollars on the floor, he should not pick it up because  it is not worth it. He earns more in those few seconds. Yes, this world is outrageously unfair. Just as there are people with billion years on their arm and clueless on how to spend it, there are people that run out their life because they can't afford an hour ride. Same scene happen here.   

So is there anything wrong with our side? It doesn't sound so wrong when you say for few to be rich, many must stay poor. At least no one die. And those people earn their money with their own efforts legally and some were just unlucky to be born in a famine-stroke country in Africa. But there is problem when people manipulating the system for their own advantage. Just like those people in the movie are pushed into the corner by soaring good prices and ever-rising interest rate. Ever wonder where the money goes?  

In a world that overwrote so many rules, it is intriguing to see people that still uphold Darwinian natural selection theory. So the strong survive proves to be the ultimate theorem. I just feel lucky that we have the chance to be strong, unlike those who are forced into the vicious cycle and never had the chance to reach higher. Opportunity to be educated and climb up the social ladder 

. You might say we face so many unfairness on this land but still we have a fair ground to start and obstacles just mean we have to bounce higher. Train our muscle more so we could be the STRONGEST.

The ending is just too much of a fairy tale.  They did not crunch the system instead became another version of Bonnie and Clyde. Maybe it fits Hollywood romance sentiments more or it simply show that the system is indestructible? Giving money away doesn't solve the problem. Sometimes money need to be in the right hand and those with money in hand need to have the ability to protect themselves as well.

I don't wish for unreachable fantasy like let everyone be rich. But I do have a tiny hope that it could be a bit fairer, just a little.
At least we should have an equal chance to fight for our own good.