
This movie is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and accessible only through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French, and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns ar... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and accessible only through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French, and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens, people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William Geld (Tim Robbins) is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria Gonzales (Samantha Morton). Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can last only as long as his visa: twenty-four hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation, and any further relationship is therefore impossible.
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| Filmcritic.comJeremiah KippCode 46 offers false and confusing answers that lead to dead ends. It doesn't provoke thought afterwards; just gestalt. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawUnfolds like a science-fiction novel written by Cormac McCarthy. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford"Code 46 looks like a sci-fi film without trying to look like the future. |
| culturevulture.netArthur LazereWith a creatively imagined world and themes of genuine significance, 'Code 46' easily sustains interest, despite the shortcomings of the characterizations. |
| Orlando WeeklySteve SchneiderThe film is like bypass surgery: clinically precise but always in control of your heart. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott Weinberg...the best sort of science fiction, in that it takes a stark and wondrously cynical view of one potential future, and uses that to comment on where humanity is today. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaCode 46 é o filme que O Dogma do Amor queria ter sido. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsIt is about hierarchies of knowledge, the values of memory and the loss of self. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitThis Code doesn't work. Its many story and cinematography tics are repetitious, and the whole film just does not take off. |
| Film Journal InternationalErica AbeelCuts it as thinking man's sci-fi, and marks another stretch for the ever-fertile Winterbottom. |