IN TIME

Niccol's film deals with how the elite of the world have capitalized on the resource of time and turned it into a commodity they control. The story peals back the curtain to reveal that gang violence (to rob people of time), poverty and unnecessary deaths occur daily as a result of those with the most power/time hoarding it in order to keep those with less in a position of submission to their economic will, which in this case is time and not money, and this reveals they have complete control over the very lives of each person beneath them.