Code 46

HYou must see this movie.
This is the world to come...

The film focuses on a dystopian love story, leaving a poorly developed universe.
It makes good use of silences and the soundtrack, has good dialogues and reflections on the plot.
The worst thing about the movie is to think that something like that can be perfectly real, even more crazy.
Although it may be a recommendation if you are looking for a dystopian love story, I don't think it is a movie for everyone.

About half a century from now, human cloning is rampant. Therefore Code 46 is born: laws against sexual encounters with clones of yourself or of close family members. In this far future a married fraud investigator falls in love with a woman while on a case. She ends up becoming pregnant with his child, but then is forced into abortion because of Code 46. Her memories of this first encounter are erased. He discovers that she is a clone of his mother --- though he does not tell her. He decides to renew a sexual relationship with her anyhow. In the end, they are caught after a car accident, and his memories of her are erased entirely while she is exiled to "afuera" with her memories intact. While he enjoys a happily married life with his family, she suffers in the dessert, missing him.

The story is a little too oedipal for me. But I did find the world that the movie creates a reasonable and interesting extrapolation of our our own. In this far future there are a lot of Muslim phrases in everyday conversation --- and given that Islam is rapidly growing it makes sense that its cultural significance would be felt everywhere by the time the . In this far future there is an incredible amount of internationalization of cities: there are people of all kinds of nationalities living in the big cities (again a reasonable extrapolation from our own times). But there is also an enormous amount of restrictions of travel for everyone, with people needing "papelles" to travel between cities, or even to enter the big cities --- and we are definitely moving in that direction rather fast, with some countries like China practically there already. And another welcome detail that caught my eye: phrases in Spanish are everywhere as well --- and it makes sense given that almost 10% of the world population speaks Spanish today, so it would stand to reason that all the Spanish-speaking people would have an impact in the culture of the world.

All in all, the word-building that the movie manages to do in such an economical, understated way is far more interesting than the Oedipus-complex that the movie forefronts.