Code 46 (DVD)

...the desert. This is the Code 46 of the title. It is a glimpse of a sinister possible world that takes today’s corporate globalisation to its logical end. Though it may be a thematically dark world, it is visually beautiful. Winterbottom has grasped the full extent of the digital video revolution, making use of various grades of video footage to subtly alter our perspective and perceptions. Thus night-time Shanghai is a glittering mass of shimmering ...
...wasteland, factories and hotels are sterile fluorescent boxes and a nightclub is a warm, womb-like cocoon. The visual trickery extends to cutting between types of video footage from shot to shot, so we see people as William might - a little fuzzy round the edges on account of the semi-gloom of artificial light, or on a screen as they would be seen by a security system. This eclectic style of shooting is meshed with a penchant for voice-over narrative ...

afy9mab 22.09.2004 · Read full review
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...have been told all that Code 46 entails. In a world of cloning, where clones are subject to so many different factors - environment, climate, food culture, chance - that they are ultimately different people, it is very difficult for anyone to make 100% sure they are not engaged sexually with their own kin. Code 46 enables what is presumably some sort of world government to check all known couples trying for babies, and all females coming by them ...
...for the same director as Code 46, Michael Winterbottom. That film, The Claim, is fabulous. His last film, 9 Songs, is appalling. All of them are entirely different in mood, style and genre. However there seems to be a connection between many of his films, and it's not only in using FCB to write them (they've actually paired up about six or seven times in all now). In This World tailed some emigrant children halfway across the world from central ...

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...all the more special. Code 46 is such a piece, although before one can appreciate it for what it is, one has to accept that pretty much everything within this film has been done before. So much of it being lifted from elsewhere may be annoying in many films, but Code 46 takes its basis from some of the intelligent sci-fi greats; elements of Blade Runner, Gatacca and eXistenZ all seem to work their way into the film. What I must stress here though ...
...to fans of those films, Code 46 does present them in a continuingly interesting and at times unique way. This is what allows us to accept what Code 46 is doing, and take it purely on its own terms. The film is set in an all too possible near future, where society has been split into what is essentially two classes. The better off peopel get to live in the huge cities of the world, while everyone else lives outside in the desert, struggling to survive ...

eddie7sf 10.08.2004 · Read full review
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...produced by Andrew Eaton. Code 46 stars Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton and it is a sci-fi romance, mixed with film-noir elements. The basic plot is that it is the not-too-distant future on Earth and science has invented strange viruses and people need a single document to move from one country to another. Cities are over-crowded and they are guarded by high-security checkpoints. Without the right card - a "papelle" - people are left without anywhere ...
...Visa rolled into one. Code 46 is a law which prohibits people who have the same genes, even as little as a 25% match, from having a relationship. Robbins plays William, a detective sent to investigate the trade in fake documents. He discovers Maria (Morton) is the person responsible but he covers for her as he is attracted to her. They embark on an affair with dire consquences. He does not report her crime and someone dies as a result of her fake ...

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