Code 46

Just watched "Code 46" last night. It is perhaps the most current movie that puts the city of Shanghai on high display as its futuristic city back drop. For those of you who have not had the chance to visit Shanghai in recent years, watch this movie. Aside from the city, Tim Robbins really surprised me with his hopelessly romantic role of a character. Never saw him as the type to fall in love with. I still think of him mostly as the wrongly accused in Shawshank or the goofy hula hoop inventor. I guess I really like this new master piece of his. Even though the movie didn't get too much shelf space at the local Blockbuster's. It's got just the right mix of sci-fi and romance. The sex scenes were very intimate yet charged with electricity. But it seemed as if the director intentionally only focused in on Samantha Morton, the leading lady of the story and leaving audience to imagine Tim's part... :-
The vision of such a social cast system as the consequence of the massive abuse of in-vitro fertilization, gene splitting and cloning technologies of the human race as our future is also very refreshing and intriguing. I can't deny there is definitely cause to believe that's exactly where we're headed from the way things are today... Afterall, just only today, I was refused from donating blood because I traveled from Shanghai to Hangzhou by train rather than by plane. I was exposed to potential uncontrolled regions of China's country side. Makes you think doesn't it. Piling on the evidence, read this article from NPR's Tech Nation program host, Dr. Gunn.