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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
398 Views


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

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