Code 46

[firecat]

The OH and I can't remember why we put the movie Code 46 on our Netflix queue. We liked it. So if you recommended it, thanks!

If you like atmospheric love stories with more-realistic-than-usual-in-mainstream-films sex scenes set in a multiethnic-flavored future and you don't mind a few asteroid-sized plot holes as far as the science fiction is concerned, you might like it too.

It's sort of like Gattaca meets Lost in Translation. Doesn't qualify under the Bechdel Rule, but has various women characters with minds of their own.

eta: spoilers in comments

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

That would be me who recommended it. :)

I love many things about it, but the thing that struck me most immediately (other than the soundtrack, which I find seriously swooney) was that it doesn't assume you're an idiot, and there's no unnecessary expository dialogue -- it felt to me almost like a drama that was filmed in the future and found its way back to the present rather than a science fiction film made now about the future.

[firecat]

Thanks for recommending it! "filmed in the future" is a cool way to think about the lack of exposition.

I thought I recognized some music in it (other than The Clash) and so I looked up the soundtrack on IMDB and sure enough it's the Coldplay song that you recommended and that's the music track for this post.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I agree with your assessment that there are huge, giant, gaping plot holes in some elements of the film. On repeated watchings, they become a little harder to ignore for me, which can be slightly problematic. However, I've been surprised at how much I still like re-watching the film and how much depth some aspects of it seemed to have.

Yeah, right at the end of the film they play Warning Sign. :) I think I actually saw the movie before I owned the album, but I bough the album after having seen the movie in theatres, but before picking up the DVD. That song strongly affected me when I listened to the album, but I didn't recall having heard it before. While aspects of it struck me more because of stuff going on in my life, I wonder how much of it was because part of my brain was placing the music in the context of that story without me knowing it.