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Plot: A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
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MCT:July 31, 2008Strange couple caught in a strange affair which happened a strange near future world. Great soundtracks & mood in the film.
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MCT:April 5, 2008
It was good up until the end, where I started to get angry at the lack of closure to the story. Tim Robbins was excellent as always though.
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MCT:March 24, 2008
Great concept. Interesting enough. Superb performance by Morton (as always). But the plot was a drag.
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MCT:January 12, 2008this movie had a sort of gattaca/star-crossed lovers kinda vibe to it.
It's set in the future where we're all screened for our genetic profile which judges who we have children with....
It was a weird tale of forbidden love, lost and fate.
The ending left me rather empty...the story had potential but came up short instead. -
MCT:January 12, 2008
The future, in which the main story takes place, was quite well imagined and described. I think they could do a lot more on such base. But the cliche love story and the pointless end almost ruined the film.
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MCT:January 5, 2008
Superb low-budget love-drama sci-fi social commentary. Think 'Gattaca' mixed with the work of Asian auters such as Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, 2046). If you understood any of that then check it out for sure.
WATCH IT WITH SUBTITLES ON IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND IT! For many reasons this film is realistic and one of those reasons is it's set in a more multicultural world than ever before and so there are loads of foreign phrases as well as unfamiliar lingo in the dialogue. You will need those subtitles on and still be using your brain.
I loved how unimpressive-looking they made the future, even though there are massive systemic differences between their society and ours as well as crazy new technological devices.
I found the fact that insurance controls everything scarier than the genetic angles. But in the end it's a study of a romantic relationship that is forbidden.
Only weakness (which may be a strength too) is that there's no sense of direction in the story. It's good, you're watching it, it just keeps going, where you don't know, and then it's over. -
MCT:September 14, 2007
if you liked children of men youll like this future film, which came outin 2005. the near fruture and global warming has drastically changed the way we live. there arnt to many safe places to live in the world, and a new identity card for the world is in place, and it is also a crime to have sexual relations so many d.n.a strands the same as you, tough, so thorough tests are carried when ever anybody likes someone, thats how bad its gone in the future. and tim robbins, plays william who investigates fake cards being used, hes called out to a workplace where maria played by samantha morton could be trading, here he falls in love, and through circumstances which makes it illegal for these two to hit it off, he goes on the run with her hoping for a happy future, another brilliant film from michael winterbottom, a great use of structures from around the world help create a future earth, a great subject, and something you see happening in the near future like children of men it uses social issues big today, and turns it into sci fi, the charactor story too is well thought out, and morton as always, shows her acting chops, robbbins is always great, not to long, 90 mins, but does what it wants to say
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MCT:September 3, 2007
It could've been a great movie if they had actually figured out where they wanted it to go. the dialogue is a mixture of english, hispanic, arabic, and asian, which is pretty cool. It's all an exceptional, and possibly eerily accurate example of possibility. Where the film fails, however, is the ending. The movie actually ends at the 60 minute mark. After that, it doesn't quite know what to do and mills around (still managing an interesting, but self-defeating twist), ruining the story, and just ends without resolution.
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MCT:September 3, 2007A great impressiv futuristic sci-fi film about the near future and how it could be. It was a great lovestory and its definitely worth watching...
The only thing that I was wondering about was why suddenly everyone was talking Spanish? WTF? -
MCT:September 1, 2007
I love this film, and the varient of languages and the intensity of the scenes. The director is also clever and makes Tokyo seems like many many years in the futre. Tim and Samantha smolder.
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MCT:August 24, 2007
Ppl who dont usually appreciate love story could love this film because it is a totally different aspect of love. The mood, the imagery and principally the soundtrack grabs your attention to the last minute.
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MCT:August 20, 2007
This movie would have deserved a higher rating had the plot not left me yearning for more and feeling a bit empty. However, it was good, nonetheless, in terms of potential and concept.
The movie is set in the not-so-distant future, where globalisation has transcended beyond a mere semi-theory to become reality - a multicultural community with people speaking one global language (a mix of English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Indian, etc.). Yet, as cool as this may be, not all is well in this utopia - urbanization has left areas between great cities a desert wasteland, a place to be exiled to, a place so desolate you feel barren and lifeless as the desert. Genetics determines your place of residence and whom to marry - so much you can't help feeling suffocated by these restrictions.
The movie also has some really cool little scenes like having Mick Jones (the former member of The Clash) sing The Clash song "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" in a karaoke-club - not to mention a pretty good soundtrack.
I recommend the movie to sci-fi/indie aficionados. -
MCT:August 14, 2007Oh dear! :-( This is the second movie starring Tim Robbins I don't like. Has this man ever been in a good movie?
This story is so complicated, I lost interest after half an hour.
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MCT:July 5, 2007
Great futuristic movie about a world where everyone lives measured lives. Nice thought provoking movie.
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MCT:July 1, 2007Ciencia ficcion, romantica, un futuro que puede estar sercano. uno nunca sabe las vuelta que da la vida.
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MCT:May 6, 2007
Sci-fi at its best. And no need for much FX, just a very good story. Plus the social critic in Winterbottom.
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MCT:April 17, 2007
Michael Winterbottom rarely dissapoints and I remain that this film is his best by far. This is not only sci fi at its best but film at its best.
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MCT:April 11, 2007
Decent, but it was a bit awkward considering the obvious age difference between the two stars. Robbins is always decent, so that's all that this was. Decent.
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MCT:April 9, 2007
This film sponsored by the BBC slipped through the net some years ago, CODE 46 is an embeded code used by the medical elite to set off an person into a mental trance like state where they are unable to control themselves. This is dark and graphic, also very hard to follow.
If you can work it out it all makes perfect sense and is based in the not to distant future (or is this now?) ... you decied. For the perverts amoungst you theres a nice bondage scene half way through but as it was done in the name of love you should be ashamed for yourself for getting a kick out of it. -
MCT:March 27, 2007
I'm one of the few people who likes this film. It's an intelligent sci-fi film with no action. If that sort of thing pushes your buttons, rent it.
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MCT:February 3, 2007
The comparison to Gattaca in the blurb is undeserved, this film is much better. A brilliantly-acted and directed, and bleakly beautiful, dystopia. Fans of dystopian films like myself won't be disappointed.
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MCT:January 28, 2007
My old roomie rented this thinking it was a dumb, cornball Tim Robbins sci-fi laughfest. We were instead blindsided by an intelligent, haunting arthouse dystopian portrait. Morton, as always, is in the freaking zone at all times, and her silent performance in the Coldplay-scored final sequence grabs a foothold in your cerebellum and refuses to cede it. An underappreciated gem...
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MCT:September 22, 2006
Real effort was made to create a realistic future and there's plenty of great ideas throughout the film. However they often go unexplored in preference for a meandering - sometimes lyrical, mostly boring - study of Robbins and Morton's relationship. That said, for a lot of people this really seems to work and if you liked 'Lost in Translation' I'd really recommend it.
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MCT:September 13, 2006Quite dull, usually enjoy Tim Robbins work as I do Michael Winterbottoms but this was very slow paced, with not very much happening
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