31 Code 46 (2003)

Michael Winterbottom might be the Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the UK with a shocking 48 directing credits, both in film and television, since 1988. Known for jumping from genre to genre, he landed in Science Fiction in 2003 when he directed Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton in Code 46. In a future in which the haves and the have-nots are starkly divided, Code 46 paints a world in which DNA is everything and the gene pool is smaller due to the enormous explosion of surrogate in-vitro technology. What happens when you share part of your DNA with someone you’re in love with? Let’s find out and go scene by scene as we explore themes on sexuality, morality, gender, and who is always left holding the bag. Find me at www.thatdylandavis.com or email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. Listen to Roz at www.rozilandmacphail.com Works Cited: Dix, Andrew. “Do You Want This World Left On?” : Global Imaginaries in the Films of Michael Winterbottom. Style, Vol. 43, No. 1, Film and Globalization (Spring 2009), pp3-25. Penn State University. Baker, Brian. “Here on the Outside” : Mobility and Bio-politics in Michael Winterobttom’s Code 46. Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 32 No. 1 (March 2015), pp115-131. SF-TH Inc. Porton, Richard. In Praise of Folly: An Interview with Michael Winterbottom. Cineaste, SPRING 2006, Vol 31, No 2 pp 28-31. Cineaste. Elsheshtawy, Yasser. The Prophecy of “Code 46” : Afuera in Dubai, or Our Urban Future. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in Review, Spring 2011, Vol 22, No. 2. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Smith, Damon. Michael Winterbottom: Interviews. University of Mississippi. Jackson, 2011. Bennett, Bruce. The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom. Wallflower Press. New York. 2014