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* [[Anvilicious]]: This film is not at all subtle with its messages about class warfare.

* [[Artistic License Economics]]: Perhaps deliberately invoked. If the system operated on any kind of supply/demand process, then it would require a constant stream of new births to prevent deflation. If it was meant to prevent overpopulation, the cost of living would be based on population concentration. Instead wages are decreased and prices are increased by fiat(especially once Will and Sylvia begin their time theft spree), meaning the purpose of the system is to ''[[Kill the Poor|Work The Poor To Death]]'' at a controllable rate.

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: The system meant to prevent overpopulation would actually cause it to happen ''faster''. The worse off people are, the more kids they have, sooner. Even with the most conservative estimates, population would double every twenty years. "Population control" is [[Blatant Lies|propaganda]] to justify [[Crapsack World|systemic slavery]].

* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: The system meant to prevent overpopulation would actually cause it to happen ''faster''. The worse off people are, the more kids they have, sooner. Even with the most conservative estimates, population would double every twenty years. "Population control" is [[Blatant Lies|propaganda]] to justify [[Crapsack World|systemic slavery]].

** Maybe. To get the 1 year off a new baby, you have to take care of it for at least some of the 25 years before it's clock starts ticking.

*** The extra hour is irrelevant. Lots of kids in tough times is an instinctual survival strategy. Poor nations everywhere overshoot the replacement rate while the rich ones routinely undershoot. If the system was made for sustainability it would be geared toward financially security, not day-to-day survival. But if it was geared to produce hordes of people willing to work more and more for less and less...

*** On top of which, remember that a person can actually work before turning twenty-five. In a place like Dayton, where law enforcement only comes at all if they suspect someone there is stealing time from someone from a wealthier district, child-labor laws are going to be pretty meaningless. So what you'd get would be couples having many children and putting them to work at the youngest age possible, so as to get them bringing time into the household. They would also try to get their daughters married off at the youngest practicable age, so that they could start having children of their own before their clocks start ticking. So what you'd get would be a society with a birthrate like that of a pre-modern agrarian society, which is to say very high.

*** Hey! You have three minutes left on your clock! I'll take those diamond earrings for a day ''each.'' Or you could come back tomorrow... ''(sucker...)''

** On a different but related subject ([[Natter|to the trope, not the above discussion]]) aging is not caused by an "aging gene", but rather through damage sustained to DNA due to repeated splitting and copying necessary for cellular division.

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* [[Dull Surprise]]: Not "Dull" as such but angry because Justin rarely shows any emotion besides moody and grumpy (And occasionally pissed off to mix it up).

* [[Fetish Fuel]]: There were undoubtedly folk who looked at the mother-wife-daughter all-look-25 and thought "sign me up!"

* [[Narm]]: [[Justin Timberlake]]'s sobbing, for some.

** Also, note to directors: If your movie is going to feature dramatic scenes of running people, you should probably make sure the actors have an at least mildly graceful run or reconsider the shots you use.

*** [[Justin Timberlake]]'s acting in this movie smacks of this and [[Dull Surprise]].