I don’t really like Tim Robbins as an actor, because he seems to be in a melancholy mood at all times. I liked the movie Code 46 (2003) because of it’s ideas, not because of its actors. Light, contrast, cuts – nothing revolutionary, I think. Her voice from offside as a narrator is interesting, eventhough he’s the main character. What remains are some interesting ideas: How the near future looks very much like a hyper version of our current world: Skyscrapers, trains, cars, highways, deserts, slums, arid plains, arabic medinas – a selective picking of elements that make up our current world. The mixing of foreign language elements like “Lo siento” or “Khuda hafiz” seem contrived, but the rest of the totally globalized and gated future (Fortress Europe, anyone?) seem very plausible. Cloning, and the resulting incest problems, a down-to-earth description of what clones will be like, memory manipulation, how to live a marriage under such conditions, all of them quite interesting.
We had to fast-forward through a scene towards the end, however.
Thank you SuShee for your list of recommended movies.
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