Analysis Of Gattaca

Gattaca is a science fiction film about eugenics. This means that children are conceived artificialy through genetic manipulation by taking the eggs from the wife and sperm from the husband and then fertilized them to obtain viable fertilized eggs that would be inserted into the women uterus or cervix. In this film this way of getting pregnant is called “the natural way” because in this way the geneticist can decide which fertilized egg will turn to be the most healthy child and will be the least likely to develop predispositions to any major inheritable diseases.

Gattaca is a space-flight conglomerate, where the ones with the best genetic profile are the pilots and the ones with genetic inferiority are the janitors. The pilots are divided in two categories: the ones with small disorders and the ones with perfect genetic profile. The last ones are called “the elite”.

The film is about the story of a boy called Vincent Anton Freeman and this life struggeles to become a pilot at Gattaca. This boy is the last human conceived by sexual intercourse, a way of conceiving wich was considered by the society wrong. Like any other child, when he was born, the

The time passed away and by the age of 10 Vincent was wearing glasses and was smaller then his 8 years old brother. This was the first time when he realized that he would not be like his little brother. Although, Vincent continued to race his brother by swimming in the open sea. Every time Anton won. But one day, the impossible happened and Vincent won and had to rescue his brother. That day, was the day when Vincent decided to live to pursue his dream. He trained hard but every time he went to take the interview to become a pilot, he failed the genetic test and was considereted an “invalid”. So the closest he could be to the place where he wanted to be was in the cleaning