Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Hi there.
I've just been watching a film called 'Code 46' (or something) which is a sci-fi thriller thingy set in the near future. Please indulge me as I summarise the events, as it didn't make much sense to me while I was watching it.
Tim Robbins (who I have a lot of trouble taking seriously since Team America) is some kind of fraud investigator in the near future. He has been sent to shanghai to investigate a case of identity fraud at some kind of passport company, whereby someone who was not meant to go to dehli was mistakenly allowed to go there. Timothey has the benifit of an 'empathy virus' whereby, if he can convince someone to give him any little titbit of personal information, he can read their minds. This allows him to access all sorts of places he shouldn't go and generally exploit people's ill-gotten trust. Soon his investigations lead him to Samantha Morton, an employee of the aforementioned company, whom he takes a shine to and has some sex with. Some time passes. Then, he can no longer find Morton, and returns to the company to look for her. Using his empathy virus, he discovers she has been taken to some secret lab for an abortion since she violated a Code 46 (boning, knowingly or unknowingly, a clone with 25% or higher genetic match). Despite his empathy virus not working on the lab employees, he finds out that he and Morton share a 50% gentic match, and she is his mother's genetic twin. Gutted. He then gets to interview morton again, only to discover she doesn't remember him, the company she worked for, nor the person for whom she falsified a passport (who has turned up deaded). The lab (rather unrealistically, under the circumstances) allow Tim to take Morton away again where they have some more sex, in a desert this time. The following morning Morton phones the futurecops and reports that there has been another Code 46 violation and that they should get out here pronto. They get in a car and drive around the desert some more, making big bunny eyes at each other, before the future cops show up and blow the car off the road.
Tim wakes up in Seattle with his wife and pesky kid, with no memory of what happened in Shanghai and Morton apparently stays in the desert looking aggreived and wistful.
Now I'm not saying it's a bad film; it's kind of got a Blade Runner esque feel, and the performances are very good, but the story was just... stupid. Why would an investigator from Seattle be assigned to case in Shanghai, for example? They never explained the nature of this virus, but I assume it is something that can be administered to anyone, surely they could've found someone a bit closer to hand. Why would Timmy, when in full possession of the facts, then go and risk everything again just for another poke at someone who could be his mother? Why would Morton, who was all over timmy like a fairtrade burka, go and get the future cops involved after their second bout of rumpo?
Answers on the back of an aging albatross to the usual address.
Aido 'un poco poco' Potato.
I've just been watching a film called 'Code 46' (or something) which is a sci-fi thriller thingy set in the near future. Please indulge me as I summarise the events, as it didn't make much sense to me while I was watching it.
Tim Robbins (who I have a lot of trouble taking seriously since Team America) is some kind of fraud investigator in the near future. He has been sent to shanghai to investigate a case of identity fraud at some kind of passport company, whereby someone who was not meant to go to dehli was mistakenly allowed to go there. Timothey has the benifit of an 'empathy virus' whereby, if he can convince someone to give him any little titbit of personal information, he can read their minds. This allows him to access all sorts of places he shouldn't go and generally exploit people's ill-gotten trust. Soon his investigations lead him to Samantha Morton, an employee of the aforementioned company, whom he takes a shine to and has some sex with. Some time passes. Then, he can no longer find Morton, and returns to the company to look for her. Using his empathy virus, he discovers she has been taken to some secret lab for an abortion since she violated a Code 46 (boning, knowingly or unknowingly, a clone with 25% or higher genetic match). Despite his empathy virus not working on the lab employees, he finds out that he and Morton share a 50% gentic match, and she is his mother's genetic twin. Gutted. He then gets to interview morton again, only to discover she doesn't remember him, the company she worked for, nor the person for whom she falsified a passport (who has turned up deaded). The lab (rather unrealistically, under the circumstances) allow Tim to take Morton away again where they have some more sex, in a desert this time. The following morning Morton phones the futurecops and reports that there has been another Code 46 violation and that they should get out here pronto. They get in a car and drive around the desert some more, making big bunny eyes at each other, before the future cops show up and blow the car off the road.
Tim wakes up in Seattle with his wife and pesky kid, with no memory of what happened in Shanghai and Morton apparently stays in the desert looking aggreived and wistful.
Now I'm not saying it's a bad film; it's kind of got a Blade Runner esque feel, and the performances are very good, but the story was just... stupid. Why would an investigator from Seattle be assigned to case in Shanghai, for example? They never explained the nature of this virus, but I assume it is something that can be administered to anyone, surely they could've found someone a bit closer to hand. Why would Timmy, when in full possession of the facts, then go and risk everything again just for another poke at someone who could be his mother? Why would Morton, who was all over timmy like a fairtrade burka, go and get the future cops involved after their second bout of rumpo?
Answers on the back of an aging albatross to the usual address.
Aido 'un poco poco' Potato.
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