Analyzing The Movie 'Gattaca'

It comes back as Jerome’s genes, and the geneticist says to Irene “Very Nice” (Niccol 46). The geneticist thinks that Irene is getting the hair tested to see how good of a mate Vincent would be. This encounter shows the viewer that in Gattaca many of the citizens find their mate based on the other’s gene

“Gattaca” is a movie about a man named Vincent who is born into a “new” society that uses genetics as the make-up for what social class you are given and will remain in, no matter what you do. Vincent is a “godchild”. He is born the “natural way”, without any genetic altering and his future is set for him as soon as he is conceived. His place in society is at the bottom of the social class and with all his “birth defects”, he seems to be placed even lower. He has poor eyesight and heart problems among many other things and is only given a life expectancy of around thirty years of age. He is denied the basics of life such as medical care and education. When his brother, Aton, is born through genetic

By opening the movie Gattaca with quotations from Willard Gaylin and Ecclesiastes, director Andrew Niccol invites us to ponder the tension between science and religion with regard to the ethics of genetic engineering. This tension is further sustained through the complex relationship of the main protagonists Vincent and Eugene, who must ultimately conquer their own physical limitations in order to find ``God''.

GATTACA is a science fiction film, directed by Andrew Niccol. GATTACA is a film based in the not so distant future. Where the protagonist Vincent freeman a born invalid, but later soon hijacks the identity of a valid. Which ables him to follow his dream of travelling into space. During the journey through the film, we discover many themes in the film, which contribute to the storyline, they are the dangers of genetic and scientific experimentation, methodical discrimination and conformity vs individuality with these many themes the director showcases them through different film techniques.

While all this chaos is happening at Gattaca, we find out that the detective in charge is Vincent’s brother Anton. Anton tries to convince Vincent to go with him before he is found out by the other detectives. It soon becomes clear that Anton is doing this more out of insecurity and is more concerned with how Vincent has managed to get the better of him, despite his supposed genetic superiority. Vincent and Anton settle their dispute the way they did when they were kids, by seeing who could swim further out into the ocean. As it happens Vincent rises up and beats Anton and saves him from drowning. This is simply because he refused to save any strength for the swim back; he is willing to risk everything to succeed. This is a perfect example of a fight of the underdog; Vincent used all his strength and beat his brother despite his genetic disadvantages.

During his time at Gattaca Niccol again further reminds the audience of his inferiority, to establish the power of the human spirit relative to the extent of hindrances Vincent faces. Lighting is used by Niccol during a scene where Vincent’s real identity is threatened to be exposed. Hiding in the corner of the alleyway the shadow cast against Vincent’s face again replicate that of prison bars. This again suggests Vincent remains trapped behind bars due to his genetic inferiority. By constantly reminding us Vincent’s adversity Niccol heightens the theme regarding the power of the human spirit.

Gattaca has a way of to impose a perfect image so easily due to the fact that they can decide a person’s entire future while they are still embryos. Parents used genetic manipulation to build their image of a perfect child, leaving nothing to be defected. This process is what stops evolution, leaving no room for humans to evolve into better things, leaving no empathy in humans, no emotions, no flaws. Different hair, skin or eye colour would be the only thing that would differentiate in humans, leaving the world to be nothing but emotionless and

The movie Gattaca is based on the idea of social discrimination. It's not the usual type of discrimination that we are used to. In the distant future depicted in the film its genetic discrimination rather than racial. These people are separated into valids and invalids. In this movie parents are allowed to engineer their children to the exact detail. However Vincent was not engineered but his brother Anton was. This started his lifelong quest to be better than his brother. This leads to an elaborate heist to impersonate a “valids” identity and go to space. But this didn't go perfectly as he dealt with his identity trying to be discovered and relying on many other people along the way.

In both texts, fate is considered to be determined by a person’s position in the respective social hierarchies. While Ishiguro explains in his novel that most people accept their fate, Niccols demonstrates through the character of Vincent that each person has the power within themselves to create their own fate. Ishiguro adopts a non-linear storyline, where the majority of the novel consists of structural flashbacks into Kathy H’s life. The novel begins at the end, where the reader learns that the narrator’s name is “Kathy H” and that she has “been a carer now for over eleven years”. The fact that Kathy H explains at the beginning of the novel about her compliance with the cloning program foreshadows how all clones, including herself, will ultimately “complete”. Ishiguro structurally employs this nonmenclature to emphasise the irony of the clones "completing" what they were created to do in their lives. Contrastingly, at the beginning of Gattaca, Vincent was shown to already be living out his dream career. Niccols uses the structure of revealing this at the beginning of the film; instead of showing Vincent’s progression in a linear storyline, to explain how, dissimilarly to Never Let Me Go, fate can be changed. This demonstrates how fate is not dependent on a person’s social standing, but on the persistence and determination that one

Gattaca is a science-fiction thriller movie, directed by Andrew Niccol. It presents a story of the future prospect of genetic engineering and how it will affect human society. Gattaca gives one perspective of how the future of discrimination is no longer determined by social status or the colour of skin because the discrimination is now down to a science, Vincent: "I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the colour of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science." The better the genes in your body are the better job you will get. In the future world, like presented

A theme in gattaca is genetic discrimination. In the aspetic society Vincent lives in ,ones life is genetically restrained even before the individual is born so that each person gets the “best possible start”. The sterile environment metaphorically captures a harsh authoritarian ambience favouring genetic perfection above anything else. It is a society that overpowers human desire and human relattionships. This becomes apparent through the mechanical robotic characters that live in Gattaca. Traits such as personality, beliefs, values and morals are useless. Identity in gattaca is seen in solely defined by ones individual status as a valid or in-valid. Other then this nothing else is relevent.The starting scenes in the film sets an atmosphere of controlled physical excellence. Vincent is shown shaving and exfoliating his skin.Vincent gathers a stray hair d from his keyboard and the space director ackknowledges his admirable cleaning habits, To which Vincent believes is “next to godliness”. There are extreme close-ups of human matter including blood, skin, hair , urine and fingernails. Extreme closeups are

This was eventually proven wrong when the movie suggested that it is possible for an individual to overcome his or her genetic flaws. Galton believed that regulating procreation would produce an overall better human race. GATTACA focus on the concerns of reproductive technologies, which promotes Galton’s eugenics. Overall, I felt that GATTACA tries to warn us of the many issues that will arise if our society believes that genes are the only essential part of human beings, like Francis Galton

In the opening scene of the film ‘Gattaca’, camera work and the power of setting engrosses the audience and institutes conflicts. Close ups and wide shots are most frequent for camera work while colours and organisation represent setting.

Vincent disguised as Jerome gets a job as a programmer, supplies false genetic samples and becomes a finalist for the space shot to saturn.In Gattaca, it is an act of criminal to be what you are not meant to be, an act of criminal to exceed the limit of your gen capabilities, an act of criminal to literally defy your fate for higher life purpose, and an act of criminal to fake an identity in a flat, Orderly, Pre-Utopiac, and robotic world of labourers like Gattaca,yet it shows that the Gods favor the man with the just cause like Vincent(Martin, 1996). In attempting to be a finalist of the Saturn program, He succeded in becoming an employee, and no longer a

When the mission director of Gattaca was murdered, detective Hugo discovered an eyelash of Vincent. But they did not know the person called Jerome that was working here was actually Vincent. This invalid person was their most obvious suspect. Vincent's identity was now in danger of being discovered.