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Gattaca

1. What does the text say about journeys?

GENETICS: THE FINAL FRONTIER
(contains spoilers)

"As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression... It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become victims of the darkness."
Justice William O. Douglas

It is the near future, and Vincent/Jerome Morrow has a problem. A genetic problem. He is an imperfect man in a perfect world.
Every day it seems as if people are discovering new uses for the human genetic code. Hardly a day passes when there isn't a researcher who claims to have found another miracle gene. One for obesity, for cancer, for asthma, for manic-depression, and so forth. Gene therapy is on the rise, already some people have been used for the first leading forms of treatments, using recombinant DNA, injected by genetically-altered viruses. There is even talk (and perhaps an attempt) to clone a human. Ever since the decryption of the human genetic......


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