Sunday, November 13, 2016
Technology in the Movie Gattaca
The film Gattaca explores the possibilities of future(a) engineering science development, and the way in which these succeeds would affect ships company. For example, would a society composed of two discrete social classes, and the inequality between them really be an advance? Those who be not genetically manipulated to so called perfection in a lab, hardly by nature conceived, are given the pay heed in-valid god children or de-gene-erates , and are treated as hour class. Natural conception in the not too distant future is rejected in the society of Gattaca, with genetic utilization seen as what has become the essential way. Due to the inconsistency of in-valids, what would present days multiculturalism and racial diversity be in a cartridge clip such(prenominal) as that of Gattaca? Would the enormousness of individuality or in the flesh(predicate) identity be discarded? As Vincent tells the viewer: at once we break discrimination galvanic pile to a science. Gattac as plot and character portraiture asks the viewer this, showing us that unique genetic composition wouldnt matter- infact, personal qualities would be scrutinised, pushed aside and unwanted. It is clear that theatre director Andrew Niccol aims to inform the viewer of this through and through such examples as Irenes heart defect which doesnt allow her to pursue her dream, nonetheless though she is a valid. another(prenominal) example is Vincents plainly way to be veritable into society is to lie and fool a valids identity. Technology enables Vincent to do so, but infact it is technology that first leads to Vincents rejection from his surrounding world, as he was naturally conceived, and therefore is aeonian suffering under the gist to somehow be every bit accepted.\nI believe Niccols message to the viewer is that in order to truly emolument from the power to change the environment, such as advances in technology giving us the exponent to genetically manipulate, we first have to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of our ac...
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