In the picture “Time”(2011) tells of a future in which humanity has found the opportunity to live forever. Now people are genetically born such that the aging of their body ceases after 25 years.
In this reality, time has become the only currency that everyone is trying to get at all costs in order not to die.
Each person has a concept of the time at his disposal thanks to a special watch implanted on his left hand, counting the minutes in the opposite direction.
The rich and poor differ from each other only in a reserve of precious time. And strangely enough, even finding a peculiar way to defeat death, people could not overcome insidiousness, cruelty and social injustice.
For lovers of science fiction films, which are talking about the dystopian future, we have compiled a selection of ten paintings similar to “Time”.
10. The Rippers (2009)
In 2025, people learned how to make biomechanical human organs. Union Corporation is engaged in their sale in cash or on credit, while the latter option is much more profitable for it from the commercial side.
However, if the debtor is allowed to delay, then the authority will need to be returned to the owner company.
For the body comes ripper, which can easily extract it, even if such manipulation will inevitably lead to death of the carrier ...
9. Immortality Corporation (1992)
Racer Alex Furlong crashes on the track in front of his girlfriend Julie. But he does not die - in a time machine he is transferred to the future. He lands in 2009.
In this reality, a method has already been found with which you can transfer the brain of an aging person to another "young" body.
However, if the procedure is repeated many times, a person will receive something similar to immortality, while the personality of the “human donor” will disappear forever.
But no one can be used as a donor so that his disappearance is not suspicious, nor can a donor be taken from the past, since his disappearance in due time will cause damage to the chain of events and inevitable changes in the future.
Therefore, “donors” are found in the past from those who die “by themselves,” and will do so in such a way that his body will not be found (strong fire, explosion, etc.).
Time machine from Immortality Corporation delivers a potential donor to the future a moment before death ...
8. Island (2005)
The film takes place in 2019. Lincoln-Six-Eco lives in a society in which the surviving people are cared for as much as possible: they are in a special complex, eat on schedule and perform these physical exercises.
The main dream of every inhabitant of the complex is to be in the most beautiful place on the planet - surviving after the explosion the islandwhere everything is as it was before.
Lincoln Six Eco is among the lucky ones who have been given this honor. But in reality, everything is not so joyful. Lincoln's whole life is not true.
The people who surround him are just clones, and the island is not a dream resort at all, but a world of living people who needed organs to replace.
7. Gattaka (1997)
In the future, people around the world have learned to create people without flaws, both physiological and mental.
Discussions on the topic of morality faded into the background: now society is clearly divided into “fit” and “unfit” by an unconditional criterion.
To give birth to a “fit” child, parents just need to go to the doctor, who will choose the perfect combination of genes for mom and dad. “Unprofitable” children are born in the old fashion, therefore, they have many natural defects.
Vincent Freeman just refers to those whom the ideal society ranks among the representatives of the "second grade": he has poor eyesight, a sick heart and a short lifespan.
But, contrary to everything, he dreams of making a space flight.
Managing to mislead the security service Gattaki, Vincent was able to become an astronaut and now he has to prove by deed that he may be among the first.
6. Equilibrium (2002)
Action movie Equilibrium unfolds in the future: the inhabitants of the Earth are strictly forbidden to feel any emotions in order to avoid a war. Under the ban books, paintings, music, which by chance can provoke strong feelings.
To maintain the established order, the violent use of a special tool called “prozium” is used, which makes a person absolutely insensitive.
John Preston is a government agent whose responsibility is to look for all violations. However, such serious and disciplined officials are characterized by weaknesses: one day he forgets to take the next dose of the prosium, which leads to his emotions.
The accidental mental transformation of a law-abiding citizen leads him into real confusion ...
5. The Beginning (2010)
Cobb House is a lucky thief. He is one of the best in the dangerous craft of extraction: he steals valuable secrets from the depths of the human subconscious during sleep, when the mind is less protected.
Cobb's unique talent made him a sought-after player in the world of industrial espionage, which is familiar with the dirty intrigues, but they turned him into an eternal fugitive and took away from him everything that he once loved.
And now Cobb has the opportunity to fix it. His last assignment can bring everything back, but in order to carry it out it is necessary to accomplish an incredibly difficult task - to return to Start, initiate.
Instead of stealing successfully, Cobb and his partners will have to do the opposite. Now their goal is not to steal the idea, but to implement it. If everything ends well, this will be the perfect crime.
But no calculations or professionalism can prepare a team for a meeting with a dangerous enemy, which, apparently, foresees every step ...
4. Parallel Worlds (2011)
This almost magical universe contains two large planets., two parallel to the worldwhose residents are not allowed to communicate with each other.
It so happened that one of the planets is the personification of the upper world, the elite, parasitizing on the representatives of the working class - poor people from the lower and dirty planet.
All contacts are closely monitored by special forces of the border police, which eliminates violators of the established order on the spot.
But these two were destined to forever change the current way of life. Adam and Eden met on a high mountain when they were still children. A guy from a poor family and a rich girl from the Upper World, it would seem that they can have in common?
However, in spite of everything, they managed to make their friendship, and then great love, a secret from everyone, in order to destroy the existing world order as a result.
3. Surrogates (2009)
In the future, people no longer need to leave their safe homes. They do not go to work, to institutions and do not meet with friends. All these things make real copies of them - surrogates.
At the request of customers, a copy can be forever young and healthy. Surrogates convey to the owners all the sensations that they themselves receive. They are better than people, because they do not get sick, do not age and have an ideal appearance.
A world without flaws, but this is only at first glance, because there are those who do not like this arrangement. Among such dissatisfied and policeman Tom Greer. He does not like such changes in society, because of which the world fell under power robots ...
2. The loop of time (2012)
The plot focuses on moving time loops. Absolutely every person can be destroyed only because it accidentally interferes with someone from the future, or simply because he was wrong in the past.
The era came when the leaps in time became commonplace. However, along with this kind of progress, it becomes a habit to eliminate unnecessary and uncomfortable people in a very original way - sending them to the past.
1. Changing Reality (2011)
By chance, Congressman David Norris became aware that the planet is moving according to a pre-designed plan, the exact implementation of which is overseen by employees in the Bureau of Adjustments in hats, endowed with superhuman abilities.
But, it’s a shame that the plan does not provide for further meetings with the ballerina Eliza, the congressman’s lover.
David enters the support of one of the Bureau’s employees and engages in an unequal battle with others, changing realitydefending the right to own choice and personal happiness ...