Evolution Of Jerome By Jerome. Jerome

Discrimination was a prominent theme in Gattaca. In the movie directed by Andrew Niccol, Vincent Freeman is conceived without the help of genetic engineering, which had become the primary way of having a child. As a result of Vincent 's parents decision to conceive him naturally, Vincent suffered from myopia and a congenital heart defect; along with a life expectancy of only 30.2 years, he was prone to discrimination in a society where your DNA determined your social class. Children conceived naturally like Vincent were considered the underclass and invalids; because of this, they were subjected to perform jobs that took minimal skills. However, this didn’t go over too well with Vincent whose sole dream was to go to Saturn’s moon, Titan. Since Vincent cannot achieve his dream solely by hard work, he is forced to become a “de-gene-rate”, or borrow an elitists identity, in this case, Jerome Morrow’s. Jerome Morrow was a gold medal swimmer who won silver once and tried to commit suicide because he failed himself. Morrrow however was not successful in his attempt and only succeeded in paralyzing himself. Morrow allowed Freeman to borrow his identity and in return , Freeman had to fund Morrow’s lifestyle. In order for Vincent Anton Freeman to become Jerome Morrow, he must diligently scrub his body daily to get rid of as much of his own DNA as possible. Freeman not only consistently has to gets rid of skin cells and any hair that might fall , but he must also pass daily DNA

Jerome is lucky enough to have superior genes, thus giving him the opportunity to achieve his full potential. Throughout his whole life he was expected to succeed at everything he was faced with, and being an Olympic swimmer, he was expected to win but “for the genetically superior, success is easier to attain. But is by no means guaranteed. After all, there is no gene for fate.” But what does this prove? Genes don’t change personality or fate, they just allocate your future for you in Gattaca.

Vincent calls for extreme measures because he is determined to become an astronaut so he takes on the identity of a valid man with perfect DNA called jerome who was an amazing swimmer that committed suicide by running in front of a car and failed but paralysed himself in doing so. Vincent and Jerome strike a deal where vincent uses genetic samples of Jerome's urine, blood, skin cells to get into GATTACA (the space agency.) Vincent is told “You could go anywhere with this guys helix tucked under your arm.” This means that by using Jerome's DNA, Vincent is able to have the same opportunities as the valids and can pursue his dream of becoming an

In “Gattaca” and “Brave New World” thre were many struggles Vincent and Bernard comfronted. Vincent had to have a daily routen in order for him to keep his identity of Jerome. He would gte skin sells of Jerome to put on his keyboard and he would also get blood and urine, just incase he was tested while working. He

The story of Vincent shows in Gattaca that there is possibility of beating the genetic engineering system. Vincent is one of the last naturally born babies born into a sterile, genetically enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Vincent an invalid, dreams of working within Gattaca and making it into space. He combines with Jerome who was disabled in an accident to take his identity and live his life to enter the Gattaca Corporation. Vincent is selected for his lifelong desire, a manned mission to Titan.

This visionary civilization is indeed technologically advanced beyond modern day but there essence of humanity has nearly been degraded from its prior abilities. Humans are disposable, you can easily be replaced by another replica of yourself in such a population where perfection is something easily obtainable in terms of a valid person, those who seem to matter. Those of a lesser breed, an anomaly if you may, the fraction of the masses that are different and at the bottom of social charts, that which is defined as an invalid, what is life for those degenerates. These lesser beings can not function throughout society like other who have been genetically modified into a higher tier of humanity. Invalid; you are nothing, you can do nothing, thus you amount to nothing. This is the sort of stereotype Vincent, had to accept for the majority of his youth. This kind of adversity was implemented due to genetic modification and through this change in humanities ways, there humanity was stripped from them almost like they have become a similar entite to robots. Vincent is one of the few who are different, but in a way that allowed to him to process things differently, to become something more by not

It is better to leave some of a child's abilities unprogrammed. It because natural conception produces humans that have spirits, emotions, and dreams. The scientist in Gattaca would think that leaving the child's abilities to chance is something stupid and they would not agree of that. However, the director shows clearly that is wiser to remain human. In this movie, he shows some examples such as Vincent beats Anton at swimming, Irene falls in love with Vincent even when she discovers that he is not who he says he is. Irene doesn't care who Vincent actually is, she's already fallen in love with Vincent's personality. Jerome supports Vincent in his dreams and is happy to die when he succeed, "I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body; you lent me your dreams". One more thing

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''.

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

This is what Vincent does. He finds a man named Jerome who has been injured in an accident and is now paralyzed. He takes over Jerome’s life. By using hair, skin, blood, urine and other DNA, Vincent becomes Jerome and secures a job at Gattaca. His desire to go into space can now be a reality but only if he can keep up the facade.

The movie GATTACA, takes place in the future. The main character, Vincent, is not genetically engineered, however, his brother is. All his life, Vincent is constantly overshadowed by him, and knows he will never be like all the “perfect” people. Vincent had always dreamed about being able to go into space. He was rejected many times because of his heart condition and his DNA until Jerome came. Jerome Eugene Morrow was involved in a car accident out of the country which made it possible for Vincent to become a whole new person. With a different DNA, new opportunities were now available to him.

He acquires the identity of a cripple, but genetically perfect Jerome. Vincent alters his psychical being to perfectly match Jerome. Vincent now Jerome gets employment at Gattaca by simply his DNA. DNA has become amplified as more importance then the “human spirit” in this film. In the end however, human spirit it what we have left after

This is illustrated in the film when Irene and Jerome are running away from the detectives and Irene says “don’t you understand, I can’t do that.” Referring to her high risk of heart disease, and Jerome/Vincent simply replies “you just did.” This demonstrates how normalised it has become, the idea of the two distinctive groups and how imperfection must be accepted as just that, and essentially there is nothing that can be done about this. However Vincent/Jerome challenges this by being the only character in the film that breaks out of this, who refuses to settle into the mould that society has made for him. He is used by the director to challenge the audiences’ perception of what a marginalised group is-what classifies a person as imperfect? Who is to say that we cannot break out of the social construct and defy the roles imposed on us at

In the movie, GATTACA, directed and written by Andrew Niccol, the human race has turned to genetic modification in order to keep people from having undesirable traits, leaving those unmodified to be scorned by the genetically “perfect”, such as the main character, Vincent Freeman. Vincent, as one of the people born with an earlier predicted death, must bypass and go against the system in order to achieve his dream of travelling into outer space, where he can live out a life away from those who would treat him differently because of his genes. He must use the DNA of another man, Jerome Morrow, who has sold the man his identity because he cannot go on without the use of his legs.

With Jerome's genes, Vincent soon got his job. He was accepted and scheduled for a flight to the space. Vincent always kept his work place clean because he was afraid that people would find his DNA and proves that he was Vincent. He left Jerome's hair and skin pieces at his work place. So even people suspected him, he was not going to be in any danger. Vincent met with Irene and fell in love with her. Irene has an excellent DNA, but she had heart problems and would not be allowed to fly any long missions.