Film Review: In Time By Andrew Niccol

The film entitled In Time was published in 2011 in the United States. It was written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol. The film was categorized as a dystopian, science-fiction, action and thriller film. The director shows the audience about the future life of human that has never been imagined before. In other words, the director wants to emphasize and change the connotative into denotative meaning about time in life. Also, this film includes the social issues that can be related to the present. In Time stars Justin Timberlake as Will Salas (the main character) and Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis.
The beginning of film is referred in the year 2169. Human lives change more sophisticated and developed. In one town called Dayton (the poor
Then, the writer wants to make the interpretation or meaning from the representation in the film. The analysis of some scenes in this film is purposed to find the representation of time, supported by using the language of film and the mise-en-scene. According to (Moura, 2014), mise-en-scene means the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, décor, props, costume. Here are some elements of mise-en-scene; set design, lighting, costume, and location. In this research paper, the writer uses textual-oriented approaches as the methodology to analyse the film. Klarer (1998) states that textual-oriented approach is a methodology which concerned with the analysis of textual or intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of literature text. The external aspect are included the author (biography, complete works), audience (class, gender, age, etc), or context (historical social, political conditions) of the literary work. This methodology is appropriated in this research, because the writer wants to analyse the film by combining the intrinsic and extrinsic
But, there are some similar aspects of theme by other researcher that relates and supports this research paper. According to (Jagan, 2015), in his analysis of two dystopian films; Book of Eli and V for Vendetta, the article focuses on the strong persuasive that filmmaker used or it can be called as propaganda. In films, the filmmaker shows propaganda in the scene as a tool of delivering messages. The journal found that the relation between dystopian, especially dystopian film and propaganda, although the two films have the same purposes, which are to show the future life, but they input propaganda as the theme in film. Related to previous journal, (ENE, n.d) analyses the real background of dystopian imaginary by focusing on social and political issue, this journal is also contains the analysis of manipulation problem that emerged as the system of dystopian discourse. To find the result, the researcher compares between Classical dystopias like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Hunger Games film. From the analysis, most of dystopian literature covered some issues such as war, totalitarian regime, weakness of Democracy, and dream of revolution. In other words, the background of dystopian is categorized as the worst life, power still exists to dominate the weakness society. On the other hand, (Williams, 1988) explores the film Blade Runner by questioning some issues showed in the