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Gattaca

Gattaca
The morality of genetic selection is explored in Gattaca. Although set in the future the technological developments are downplayed with a sterile, featureless working environment and retro looking cars. The focus is on undesirable changes to society, in a similar vein to A Clockwork Orange, 1984 and Blade Runner.

New Zealand born Andrew Niccol is the director and screen writer of Gattaca. He is also the screen writer of The Truman Show which has some similarities. The movies share the general theme of an individual triumphing over an artificial society and the specific theme of venturing out into the ocean.

The tagline of the movie is that there is no gene for the human spirit. The main character (Ethan Hawke) shows he has the spirit to compensate for the physical genetic weakness that life has dealt him. Through a DNA broker Hawke arranges to take on the identity of a crippled man with impeccable genes (Jude Law.)

In the movie's parlance Hawke becomes a......


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