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> I mean what is the message supposed to be? For one thing the main character has a heart condition and absolutely should be weeded out of the space mission he

> I mean what is the message supposed to be? For one thing the main character has a heart condition and absolutely should be weeded out of the space mission he is trying to get on. Why? Their discriminatory predictions were incorrect. Space travel is clearly quite routine in this future, so to put it in today's terms, would you forbid people with heart conditions from driving cars or trucks?

Barrin92 4y ago
>Their discriminatory predictions were incorrect we don't know that because the movie stops before we can figure that out. I went to school with a guy who had a medical condition that put him at risk of passing out, albeit rarely. but he could legally drive. Ended up having an episode and veering into the oncoming traffic and his 19 year old girlfriend ended up dead. There's a potential less romantic ending to the movie where Vincent strokes out on the rocket and gets someone killed. The allegedly positive message of the film is that someone's self image is more important than even justified standards that exist to protect other people. Mind you in the film he even fakes his heart rate during a test and collapses afterwards, suggesting this is not some abstract form of discrimination.
- naasking 4y ago
  > we don't know that because the movie stops before we can figure that out We do know they were incorrect, because he was already considerably older than his predicted age of death. We also know they were incorrect because he outperformed people who were his "intellectual superiors". > There's a potential less romantic ending to the movie where Vincent strokes out on the rocket and gets someone killed. And that can also happen to the genetically enhanced. The whole point of the movie is that statistics are not certainties. > The allegedly positive message of the film is that someone's self image is more important than even justified standards that exist to protect other people. No, the positive message of the film is that genetic statistics cannot capture the full potential of a human being, and that the standards that were in place were in no way "justified".

Barrin92 4y ago

>Their discriminatory predictions were incorrect we don't know that because the movie stops before we can figure that out. I went to school with a guy who had a medical condition that put him at risk of passing out, albeit rarely. but he could legally drive. Ended up having an episode and veering into the oncoming traffic and his 19 year old girlfriend ended up dead. There's a potential less romantic ending to the movie where Vincent strokes out on the rocket and gets someone killed. The allegedly positive message of the film is that someone's self image is more important than even justified standards that exist to protect other people. Mind you in the film he even fakes his heart rate during a test and collapses afterwards, suggesting this is not some abstract form of discrimination.

naasking 4y ago
> we don't know that because the movie stops before we can figure that out We do know they were incorrect, because he was already considerably older than his predicted age of death. We also know they were incorrect because he outperformed people who were his "intellectual superiors". > There's a potential less romantic ending to the movie where Vincent strokes out on the rocket and gets someone killed. And that can also happen to the genetically enhanced. The whole point of the movie is that statistics are not certainties. > The allegedly positive message of the film is that someone's self image is more important than even justified standards that exist to protect other people. No, the positive message of the film is that genetic statistics cannot capture the full potential of a human being, and that the standards that were in place were in no way "justified".