Keep your time

We spent the night at the cinema in Lake Tahoe. We saw "In Time" directed by Unknown and starring a lot of young actors. And this is part of the problem with the film. But just part.
The concept is interesting but the makers of the film has not been able to explain  or solve several everyday events. Maybe they where to obsessed with trying to make their own Matrix? Instead they use speed to just avoid all the questions raised and mystically alluding to a "father" and painting a very sketchy messiah.
The bearing idea is not really bearing even though it is interesting. But it just leaves you with to many questions such as how did it all start and how was it implemented? It needs more work, just as the acting, that is substandard. I credit this to all the young actors. Not much to say about it except it seems like it was all done in a rush.
The sets look like they have been borrowed either from the Batman TV-series or any of the 10 different Matrix copies we have seen through the last decade.
So what was good with the movie? The idea is interesting and it also provokes some thoughts about families in the future. But still with the old view of the nucleus family. And the old boring roles: the father as the provider and the females as spenders, the mother as the caring and so on… strangely crazy-christian actually.
The film also seemed to critique Darwinism in a blunt and stupid way. I do not know where that came from but maybe some weed-head at the film studio took money from some ID-fairy-tale-lobbyist, what do I know?
All in all the film was not very well made: lacking in acting, story, sets and props. But more so it lacked a good script and some visions for the future. The ending was just such a cop-out. We had a good time though discussing how to fill all the holes… but we did not manage; there where just to many of them and to few of us.
I recommend the film to anyone who is a Sci-Fi scholar specializing in dystopias with to much time on their hands, not because you will like it but because you need to see it.