Code 46 - 6

This film assumes (maybe rightly) that humans will use any new technology that we have or discover to maintain and create class structures. In this case it is genes and the rules for reproduction. It also uses the ideas of memory erasing and recording, as well as viruses that can control or make emotions hypersensitive. Ones genes are the source of power in their social structures. All of these things invoke good questions about the ethics of technology. It points out the question: are we playing the social game using its power for ourselves, or are we powerless as the social structures control and manipulate us?