Marxist criticism
The 2011 motion picture, In Time, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, strongly conveys elements of Marx’s social theory. The film is about a world in which currency equals years a person has to live after 25. The people there either die when their time runs out or find a way to earn more time, just like what the elites or the bourgeoisie in Marxist context did. The concept of Marx’s theory conveyed in this film is the idea of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and capitalism. The poor or proletariat have only days, hours, or minutes they tend to work harder and move faster just to survive while the rich or the bourgeoisie have decades so they tend to do things much slower. The main character Will …show more content…
The bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Marxist Theory exist in our present society. Oftentimes, when we see a low-wage worker, we see the struggle that they endure trying to make a living day to day. On the other hand, we see the bourgeoisie, taking full advantage of their ownership of the means of production. That is what exactly happens in the film that shows the concept of capitalism and one of the proofs is when that Philippe Weis said “ Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day?” it justifies that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. My favorite part of the movie was on the last part when they both fight the greedy elites and stole the millions that belongs to Philippe Weis which they do believed was stolen from the poor and they just gave it back to them. People then emigrate out of their zone and cross into the rich zone, thus collapsing the system and which then shows one of the concept of Karl Marx’s theory that Proletariats would “one day develop the class consciousness needed to rise up in violent revolution against their oppressors and create a classless
The 2011 motion picture, In Time, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, strongly conveys elements of Marx’s social theory. The film is about a world in which currency equals years a person has to live after 25. The people there either die when their time runs out or find a way to earn more time, just like what the elites or the bourgeoisie in Marxist context did. The concept of Marx’s theory conveyed in this film is the idea of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and capitalism. The poor or proletariat have only days, hours, or minutes they tend to work harder and move faster just to survive while the rich or the bourgeoisie have decades so they tend to do things much slower. The main character Will …show more content…
The bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Marxist Theory exist in our present society. Oftentimes, when we see a low-wage worker, we see the struggle that they endure trying to make a living day to day. On the other hand, we see the bourgeoisie, taking full advantage of their ownership of the means of production. That is what exactly happens in the film that shows the concept of capitalism and one of the proofs is when that Philippe Weis said “ Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day?” it justifies that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. My favorite part of the movie was on the last part when they both fight the greedy elites and stole the millions that belongs to Philippe Weis which they do believed was stolen from the poor and they just gave it back to them. People then emigrate out of their zone and cross into the rich zone, thus collapsing the system and which then shows one of the concept of Karl Marx’s theory that Proletariats would “one day develop the class consciousness needed to rise up in violent revolution against their oppressors and create a classless