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• wang_li 7y ago
  Not that anyone here cares, but this is my favorite movie.
  • scrumbledober 7y ago
    I hated it when made to watch it in high school biology class, probably because i hated anything my teachers made me do, but coming back to it years later i was pulled right in.
  • renke1 7y ago
    It's one of my favorite movies, too. Frightening but also inspiring at the same time.
  • conception 7y ago
    I love talking about this film because you can argue its theme really either way. There's the standard "you can't gene edit heart" or whatever: hard work means more than what you're told you can be at birth. However - The story of the film tells us time and time again that Vincent -isn't- able to compete and measure up to the standards needed for space travel. He fails his cardio tests, he can't see well enough to cross the street. But his vanity and pride causes him to cheat the system to make it seem like he passes all the tests. He has the heart of a fighter figuratively but not literally and I always imagined after the end of the movie that his actual faults would come to light and it would cost someone their lives in space. What if he lost a contact lens in space? They don't have more. What if there was an emergency and they needed someone with an expected amount of endurance to help save everyone? Gattaca for me always told a different, darker story. I think the story they wanted was a caste story - if he was just as able and strong but beat out the genetically superior people on their terms then that would have been the story they were trying to tell. In the end, they told the story of a clever cheater who put his own wants above those in a delicate mission and it's left to a guess if that cost lives or no. During a talk with another person on this, he supposed that this is why Jerome incinerates himself at the end. He needed a lowly sort as such as Vincent to fulfill his own dream, and in the end just could not reconcile how he may have just destroyed and polluted the whole of his pure society for his own selfish reasons.
    • ad404b8a372f2b9 7y ago
      You can do that exercise with most movies: analyze a decision or character to its logical, or most likely, outcome and figure out its limitations but I feel like it really strips the movie of all its spirit to take it so literally. To have Vincent be just as genetically able and strong would defeat the whole point. Not all men are born equal, life is unfair but we should all aspire to reach for our dreams despite our limitations. If we take things to their materialistic dead-end we get a single man optimally selected for a single task from his birth unto his death like a machine with no room for error, or chance, or humanity.
  • klyrs 7y ago
    "Is that the movie about exfoliation?" -- anonymous student I once had
• leftyted 7y ago
  Gattaca never explains why the genetically-superior humans are such assholes.
  • Caspy7 7y ago
    Being told you're superior to others your whole life has a tendency to do that.
  • haihaibye 7y ago
    They want to protect crews of space missions from people who hide their medical conditions putting others lives and scientific progress at risk for their own vanity.
• MarkMc 7y ago
  I recently realized that the movie title is made up of A, C, G, and T, which also represent the four nucleotide bases of a DNA strand. Clever.