Spicaresque:

A Spanglish blog dedicated to the works, ruminations, and mongrel pyrotechnics of Yago S. Cura, an Argentine-American poet, translator, publisher & futbol cretin. Yago publishes Hinchas de Poesia, an online literary journal, & is the sole proprietor of Hinchas Press.

Monday, July 14, 2008

CODE 46


Holy crap! I am just watching Code 46 and I love its sense of what the world is going to look like in a couple of years. What is not to like. Samantha Morton is a woman names Maria Gonzalez and all the people speak this multi-lingual amalgam of Arabic, Spanish, French, and English that is just so amazing to hear. Like if you have two kids you would say I have two chicos, etc.

The interesting thing to me would be how to establish what language is used for what words, etc. So like we would say hello in Arabic because I kind of like the way Salaam sounds. It's better than hello. And everyone has a secret palabra that they use which is a password, etc. People get summoned on happiness breaks and everyone has to tell Tim Robbins something very personal about themselves. I would ask though that the writers just clarify the main narrative of the movie, like what exactlt is Code 46: when people of similar genetic makeups have children together?

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