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Synopsis: Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible 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 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. 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 only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original invest
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Production: MGM
  4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2003
93 min
Website
438 Views


How did you know? Is that on my file?

- Lucky guess.

- Fate.

Actually, I have a whole bag full of them.

For my kid.

- You have a kid?

- Yeah.

- Chico or chica?

- Chico.

Jim. His name is Jim.

I bet he's very special.

He is special.

Everybody's children are so special.

It makes you wonder where

all the ordinary grown-ups come from.

These are good.

You wanna come to a club?

Don't you have to meet someone?

- Come. I want you to.

- Why?

Because I want to corrupt you.

If you come, there's a definite risk

that you'll have a good time.

And if you don't come with me,

then you'll regret it.

Come on.

Come on.

- Drink?

- Vodka, rocks, please.

- Would you like to sing?

- No.

- Are you sure?

- No. I'm sure.

You don't wanna hear me sing.

- I was actually hoping to hear you sing.

- Why?

Someone told me

that you have a very distinctive voice.

What else did they say about me

behind my back?

You can take a virus

to make you more musical.

Gives you perfect pitch.

You sing like an angel.

I tried a virus once for Mandarin Chinese.

Chinese people knew what I was saying,

but I didn't.

It was weird. I didn't like it.

I'm on a virus right now,

an empathy virus.

I take an empathy virus

to help with my work.

I don't like that, that's weird.

That's like you could pick up...

- all sorts of stuff about me.

- Yeah, I can.

That's like wearing x-ray specs

to look at girls' underwear.

- I bought x-ray specs, they don't work.

- But you bought them?

- Yeah.

- You wanted them to work.

I was 6 years old. I was interested

in skeletons, not underwear.

I thought you were

a natural intuitive hombre.

Would it make any difference?

- Claro.

- Really?

- Maria.

- Damian. Hello.

William, Damian. Damian, William.

Darling, you got to let me know

Should I stay or should I go

Hi.

If you say that you are mine

I'll be here till the end of time

William is helping me celebrate

my birthday.

- It's your birthday?

- Yeah.

- I didn't know.

- That's okay.

William is okay.

William knows about our secret.

That's the one that will take me.

You should kiss William, too,

because he helped.

If I go there will be trouble

Tell him what you're going to do with it.

I'm a naturalist. I study bats.

The finest quality of bats in this world

is in this cave in Delhi.

I wanted to see that since I was a kid.

You couldn't get cover in the normal way?

I have tried for eight years.

And only now am I going.

Usually if you can't get cover,

there's a good reason.

Yes, "The Sphinx knows...

- "best."

- "Best."

- The Sphinx knows a lot.

- Doesn't know what I know.

Some things in life can be worth the risk.

Anyone who has ever

wanted something knows...

you have to be prepared

to take a risk to get it.

I think I'll be okay.

- Good luck.

- Bye.

If I go there will be trouble

Why did you do that?

- What?

- All that, in front of me.

You know what I should do?

Arrange to have his cover withdrawn...

and I should put him

al fuera and you, too.

But you're not going to, though. Are you?

Why are you being so nice to me?

Are you hoping for a reward?

How do you get the papeles out?

At the beginning of every new batch

we do a test run.

Then we destroy the papel.

I go in to work

and I have a fake papel under my tongue.

I destroy the fake one

and put the real papel under my tongue.

I then go to the bathroom,

put the papel into a pill, swallow it.

A couple of days later, I have the papel.

Impressed?

Come on, be impressed.

Thank you for bringing me home.

It's very kind of you.

Come in.

Beautiful. You have green fingers.

Everything is controlled scientifically.

Do you think that sunlight

is as dangerous as they say?

I hope not.

- Would you like a drink? A glass of water?

- Sure.

One of my fingers

is younger than the others.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Which one?

- This one.

Do you like it?

Very much.

It's much better than the other fingers.

Definitely.

Maybe I should get them

to grow me a younger face.

No.

I love the sorrows of your changing face.

Or whatever it is.

I haven't seen this book in a while.

"In a friend one should have

one's best enemy...

"and you should be closest to him

when you resist him."

Look.

It's all I've got left from my childhood.

I keep my special memories here.

- Who are they?

- My father and mother.

Before we left Shanghai.

These are people like Damian,

when I give them the papeles.

Now you know all my secrets.

I love to look at their faces.

They're so beautiful.

Look at their eyes.

They have a look

that the rest of us don't have.

You look like them un poco.

You should go to sleep.

I don't want to go to sleep.

Please don't let me sleep.

I'll make you some coffee.

Coffee.

Said I remember

When we used to sit

In a government yard in Trenchtown

And Georgie would make the firelight

Logwood burning through the night

No woman, no cry

No woman, no cry

I was just gonna torture the song

and now you're murdering it.

I'm tone-deaf.

You find that attractive?

Are you leaving?

I'm booked on a flight home.

- What time's your flight?

- 11:
00.

What will happen to Bikku?

He'll lose his cover.

That's bad.

I know it's bad.

You giving out fake papers is bad.

Me letting you off is bad.

Have you ever lived outside?

I was outside for 10 years.

Lo siento.

I have to go.

- I need to stop at the entry checkpoint.

- Why?

I need to get more sherbet fountains.

Hi, mister.

I found this.

I thought you could put it to good use.

Thank you. Gracias. God bless you. Go.

Sorry.

Leave him alone. Thank you, God bless you.

If we had enough information...

we could predict

the consequences of our actions.

Would you want to know?

If you kiss that girl,

if you talk to that man...

if you take that job or marry that woman

or steal that papel?

If we knew what would happen in the end...

would we ever be able to take the first step,

to make the first move?

Hello, I'm home.

- Did you have a good trip?

- It went all right.

Daddy! Where have you been?

They'd be pleased to see you.

Your wife, your special boy.

They'd want to know all your news...

and will be glad to have you home,

safe and sound.

- Want me to guess what you're thinking?

- Yeah.

- Bicycle.

- Si.

I can't answer right now,

so leave a message.

It's William, call me.

Just to let me know you're okay.

Bye.

- Are you tired?

- Yeah.

Did you think about me at all?

Did you try to imagine

what was happening to me?

Does an empathy virus work long-distance?

Maria Gonzalez, age 25.

Employee of the Sphinx.

Nurture father:
Christian Gunter.

Born in Freeport of Jebel Ali.

Transferred to Shanghai.

He was exiled

for financial irregularities.

Recorded in Kunming, Dhanbad...

Quetta and Baghdad.

Presumed to be returning

to the Freeport of Jebel Ali.

Carmen Gonzalez returned to Shanghai.

Remarried to...

Maria Gonzalez.

Height:
165 cms.

Buenos dias.

De Souza wants to talk to you.

- What about?

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