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 lik

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.