Trung Nguyen

This is an amazing movie. Like In Time, it's about a dystopian society where old age has been conquered by the rich who manipulates the poor into selling years of their lives to the rich. However, unlike the characters in In Time, who are primarily all good or all bad, the characters in Paradise are a more realistic & unsettling combo of goodness & rottenness. The actors did a great job portraying how insidious their character's moral slide was. It was heartbreaking to watch the idealism of brilliant & brave characters die as they struggle to realize their dream in the real world. Like the scientist & CEO, who started out with the sole intention of using her groundbreaking DNA research to try to save her first daughter's life, but degenerates into a corrupt old woman willing to murder to seize a young female doctor's youth for herself and refusing to share that youth with her sole surviving daughter. What I loved most about this film is that there was no sugar coating of the sordid truth about human need & desire: that if one's need or desire is overwhelming enough, it will overrule one's morality. I believe that this movie is more relevant than some people may realize, because I suspect that genetic research in anti-aging has reached outcomes far more advanced than has been disclosed to the public.