12/1/2005
Movie review of "Code 46"
I was supposed to post a review of Michael Haneke's post apocalyptic picture titled the "Time of the Wolf", but I hate to admit it but I fell asleep about half through the feature! NOT due to lack of interest but to a hard night's packing for the recent trip to Canada!
Hopefully I'll watch it again soon in it's entirety and post my opinion for you all!
However I picked up the above mentioned movie while vacationing in Canada! It was a previously viewed DVD and the price, even considering the exchange rate was a bargain to say the least!
Released in 2004 and directed by the British director Michael Winterbottom, "Code 46" stars Tim Robbins along side Samantha Morton in a love story set in a future not that far from the one we live in now!
Society is divided into two classes - citizen's living "inside" the cities who enjoy all modern priviledges and comforts, and those less fortunate non-beings who survive "outside" the cities in a desert wilderness barren of any laws or order.
The essential theme of the motion picture is one of forbidden love between DNA passport detective (Robbins) and a renegade lab technician (Morton) who embark on an impulsive and erotic affair that leads them to break "Code 46."
A realistic love story set against a totalitarian background brimming with all the futuristic control mechanisms most Governments today could possibly wish for, the plot of "Code 46" unfolds at a slow and intelligent pace that surpasses anything recently released by the major studios!
I have say I was riveted from beginning to end! One by the performances of Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, (and a solid supporting cast!) and also the superb use of locations and exquisite cinematography that transformed contemporary locations into an unknown landscape simmering with deadly omnipresence.
Original in it's intent -no!
Overall it reminded me of "Gattacca" and "Bladerunner" with obvious overtones of Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World", but the movie's style was to my mind nothing less than provocactive if taken in a modern context.
The after thoughts could leave you thinking for days and beckon another a viewing!
Highly recommended!
Hopefully I'll watch it again soon in it's entirety and post my opinion for you all!
However I picked up the above mentioned movie while vacationing in Canada! It was a previously viewed DVD and the price, even considering the exchange rate was a bargain to say the least!
Released in 2004 and directed by the British director Michael Winterbottom, "Code 46" stars Tim Robbins along side Samantha Morton in a love story set in a future not that far from the one we live in now!
Society is divided into two classes - citizen's living "inside" the cities who enjoy all modern priviledges and comforts, and those less fortunate non-beings who survive "outside" the cities in a desert wilderness barren of any laws or order.
The essential theme of the motion picture is one of forbidden love between DNA passport detective (Robbins) and a renegade lab technician (Morton) who embark on an impulsive and erotic affair that leads them to break "Code 46."
A realistic love story set against a totalitarian background brimming with all the futuristic control mechanisms most Governments today could possibly wish for, the plot of "Code 46" unfolds at a slow and intelligent pace that surpasses anything recently released by the major studios!
I have say I was riveted from beginning to end! One by the performances of Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, (and a solid supporting cast!) and also the superb use of locations and exquisite cinematography that transformed contemporary locations into an unknown landscape simmering with deadly omnipresence.
Original in it's intent -no!
Overall it reminded me of "Gattacca" and "Bladerunner" with obvious overtones of Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World", but the movie's style was to my mind nothing less than provocactive if taken in a modern context.
The after thoughts could leave you thinking for days and beckon another a viewing!
Highly recommended!
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after reading ur review, i went out and rented code 46. this wuz one of the worsted movies i ever saw. i dont now what u were watching but it wasn't the same pic i saw.
u should not give opinions on ur site about movies because u don't have no taste in them.
i hope u dont take this the wrong way tho.
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u should not give opinions on ur site about movies because u don't have no taste in them.
i hope u dont take this the wrong way tho.
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