Salon.com > In Time http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “In Time”: Justin Timberlake’s OWS sci-fi thriller http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/in_time_justin_timberlakes_ows_sci_fi_thriller/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/in_time_justin_timberlakes_ows_sci_fi_thriller/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10147604 On my way out of the New York preview screening of "In Time," I overheard another moviegoer cheerfully describing what he had just seen as a "Marxist propaganda film." So it wasn't just me. But it says something about our times, I guess, that the phrase would even come up in reference to a motion picture that could just as well be called grade-B dystopian sci-fi, or an attempt to position Justin Timberlake as an action star. New Zealand-born writer-director Andrew Niccol, he of "Gattaca" and "S1m0ne," has been making chilly, satirical, almost-excellent science-fiction movies and thrillers for years; he cannot possibly have known that this particular one -- which advocates nothing short of full-on class warfare -- would land right on top of the Occupy Wall Street moment. I mean, could he?

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