In Time

What if the time that you have left to live is measure by the time show in the clock and time has become the ultimate currency for you to buy your way out of it.

Live forever or die trying, In Time is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol.

By the year 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging at twenty five years old and after that a clock implanted in people's forearms is activated with one more year to stay alive. When the clock reaches zero, one die instantly. Time has replaced money as currency and the wealthy that live in specialized town, New Greenwich are immortals while the poor live in ghettos of Dayton are exploited and forced to live with a few hours or days. They need to work, borrow, beg or steal to stay alive and to pay for daily necessities. Thieves steal time and the timekeepers (resident police force) control the society. 

One day, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) saves the rich Henry Hamilton (Matt Borner) from a dangerous time-robbery assault in a bar. Henry tells that he is 105 years old and is tired of living, since there is no need for the deaths in the unfair society. When Will wake up in the next morning, found that Henry has transferred 116 years to him and commits suicide. Will runs to meet his mother Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) to credit time to her but she dies leaping into his arms with her time expires before the transference. Remembering what Henry told him about the inequity of the time system, Will decides to seek revenge and heads to New Greenwich but the timekeeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) believes that he killed Henry to steal his time. 

Will meets Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) who is the spoiled daughter of the millionaire, time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) in a party. When Raymond arrests him, Will kidnaps Sylvia and brings her to the ghetto of Dayton where he lives. Sylvia feels how despicable her father is and together with Will, they steal a large quantity of time to fight against the time system.

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, 

but it’s good too, to check up once in a while 

and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

Time is more valuable than money. 

You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

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The Butterfly Effect

Some people want to forgot about the past and some people want to change it.

The Butterfly Effect is an American science fiction psychological thriller film that was written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (screenwriters for Final Destination 2) released on January 23, 2004. The title was inspired by the short story, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury and refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory which illustrates how relatively minor changes may lead to large changes overtime.

Evan Treborn(Ashton Kutcher) grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends, Kayleigh Miller (Amy Smart), Lenny Kagan (Elden Henson) and Tommy Miller (William Lee Scott). As a kid, he suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else and confused. Since the age of seven, he has detail his life in a journal.

One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he attempts to set things right for himself and his friends. However, there are unintended consequences for all, harming those he cares about and realizes that the main cause of everyone's suffering in all the different timelines is himself.

At the end of the film, Evan purposely travels back in time one final time to the moment of his birth when he was in his mother's womb. Evan decides to kill himself and thus he was never born. Without him ever being born, Kayleigh and her brother Tommy decide to live with their mom going on to have happy lives and Lenny also grows up happy without Tommy's destructive presence. Evan's mother later on had a daughter. Earlier in the film Evan's mother mentioned that she had two stillbirths before him. This suggests that their father's abilities were passed down to each of them and they all made the same decision in the end, to never have been born at all.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 

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Source Code

Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley which released on April 1, 2011.

The story starts when soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man on a commuter train traveling to Chicago. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train and he awakens to find himself strapped inside a small geodesic dome. Through a screen, Air Force Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) explains to him that he is actually Colter Stevens, a decorated army helicopter pilot, now on a mission using Source Code to discover the location of a bomb aboard the train and identify the bomber who detonated it which destroyed a train headed into Chicago.

Stevens has no memory of how he became involved in the Source Code project; his last memory is of flying in a recent mission in Afghanistan while taking on enemy gunfire. In an assignment unlike any of he's ever known, he learns that the train explosion occurred two months after an incident in Afghanistan which reportedly killed him. And his body are in fact on life-support at the Source Code facility while his mind is hooked up to a computer system, the cockpit being a mental projection of his own mind to cope with the experience of a compatible man's life for the last eight minutes within an alternate timeline. Angered to discover this, Stevens requests that his life support be terminated after the mission is completed.

Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again through different people until he manages to foil another attack and in the process unexpectedly falls in love with one of the passengers, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan).

Stevens ask Christina what will she do if she knew she had less than one minute to live and she reply "I'd make those seconds count". Stevens and Christina kiss in the last seconds before the eight-minute mark. In that instant, Goodwin disables his life support per his request and the scene reveals his actual, physical body as severely mutilated and comatose. Time freezes, but to Stevens' surprise, find himself finishing the kiss,  still aboard the train with Christina, saving the rest of the passengers and all remains in the alternate timeline (universe).

Make Every Second Count

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how we choose to live it. 

It's like forever, always changing. 

For any of us our forever could end in an hour or a hundred years from now. 

We can never know for sure, so make every second count. 

What we have to decide is how we want our life to be. 

If our forever was ending tomorrow and how would we have want it to spent. 

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