I absolutely love this film. I have seen it more times than I can count for a few different reasons, one of them being its calming nature and music, and another, strangely enough, and another being the language they had developed for the film. I greatly enjoy linguistics, and I strongly believe the language they had developed for the film is an incredibly realistic projection of how we will communicate in the future on an international level. Languages are not just created by someone sitting down and 'writing a language', but develop via the adoption of popular vocabulary and grammar from other dominant languages, and they continue to evolve over time. This movie is set in the future, English is the dominant, international language (as it is now), and it is peppered with languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, and Arabic. For instance, the Spanish words of 'chico' and 'chica' are used to refer to male and female children, and 'palabra' for password. greetings are in multiple languages, but mostly the Chinese, 'ni hao', and Arabic, 'As-salaam-alaikum...'. Airplane travel is referred to as 'par avion', a car is the Spanish, 'en coche', a suitcase/hand luggage or carrying one's luggage is the Italian, luggage 'a mano'. The language had been a clever creation, and a quite wonderful and intellectual surprise. Be sure to watch with English subtitles so you catch all of the references, plus it'll help with the accents. Regarding the film itself, I think it is a smart take on the future it isn't perfect, such as when the nurse explained the 'situation' and why clones don't necessarily express themselves identically the same each time, I had had to figure out what she had meant. I had also wished the couple had been able to spend more time together because I feel it had been over far too quickly; there had been so much effort made into getting them together just for them to part without really getting the reward of being with one another. I think the movie is a great concept, and aptly conveys a dystopian future that has been badly affected by Global Climate Change, terrible air pollution, and the Ozone Layer is so depleted that life must be lived at night. Simple things like traveling into certain 'zones' can only be done if you have permission, which is denoted by having a 'cover' for the allotted amount of days, and if you overstay your 'cover', you are stuck there, not allowed to leave, but if you are a visitor then how can you stay? No money, no job, no place to live...quite dystopian, indeed.
Review of Code 46
