Gattaca Future Quotes

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Saurabh Singh
Prof. Christine Mcclure
COM-122
2 October 2014
The Not So Distant Future
The film Gattaca, directed by Andrew Niccols, explores the future and how the technological development has affected the society of the future. Natural conception is rejected in the society of Gattaca. The world has embraced those who are genetically manipulated in labs to have the best qualities out of their gene-pool. On the other hand, the naturally conceived, are given the name “in-valid”, “god children” or “de-generates”, and end up being treated as second class. The film gives a completely new meaning to the word racism and backs it up with science (genetics). The film revolves around an “in-valid” with a vision to excel in this highly biased society. “The movie excels as far as direction, plot cohesiveness and special effects are concerned, all the characters have a meaningful back-story that accentuates the theme of the movie without overshadowing the plot. Overall the movie makes for a pleasant viewing …show more content…

I think Mother wants us to.” This quote represents the opinion that perhaps God himself is not perfect, as he created a flawed world, and that having the ability to change it means we should change it. With advancements in the technological field tampering with Mother Nature has become a temptation, and knowing the human race they give in to this temptation. By showing us what the future may bring, the director is hinting towards the real world’s future, seeing as how people these days are trying to manipulate the natural world around them. Keeping the aforementioned in mind the viewer is introduced to a couple, who in this “futuristic” time decide to have a “God child”. The “God child”/ “in-valid” is none other than Vincent, the protagonist of this movie. Who tries to overcome the society’s biasness in his own interesting

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