Code 46 story
Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. Synopsis: Set in a near biotechnologically advanced future, an investigator falls in love with a woman involved with the genetic passport forgery ring he is tasked to bust.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| criminal fraud | major | The insurance fraud investigator William was dispatched to Shanghai to investigate a company that was suspected of selling fake health documents that people required to move about from city to city. Much of the first half of the story was bound up with William's investigation into the company. |
| extramarital affair | major | William fell passionately in love with Maria and had an affair with her behind his wife's back. |
| memory erasure | major | Maria had all memories of William, the sex act she performed with him and subsequent pregnancy most notably, deleted from her mind by the authorities. In the end, William had all his memories of Maria erased. |
| romantic love | major | William and Maria fell in love and engaged in a passionate affair. |
| speculative society | major | The story is set in a near future where there is a global directive (the titular Code 46) forbidding any two people with at least 25% genetic identity from reproducing with each other. In addition, the world was divided between privileged people who lived in highly developed urban centers and a poor underclass whose members were generally restricted from entering the nice cities through the use of special health and genetic information containing passports. |
| what if someone couldn't remember me anymore | major | William was dismayed to find that his lover Maria had had all memories of him erased by the authorities, and he set about to convince her that they'd been romantically involved. |
| father and son | minor | William's young son happily welcomed him home from his work trip to Shanghai. |
| human cloning | minor | William discovered that his lover Maria was in fact a clone of his own mother. |
| husband and wife | minor | William was thinking of his lover Maria while he was lying in bed with his wife. |
| ozone layer depletion | minor | The story is set in a future when going outside in the daytime was considered hazardous owing to elevated UV ray levels. |