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Gattaca

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"Set in the 21st century, Gattaca gives one perspective of what the future of discrimination is to become: DNA. "No longer determined by social status or the color of your skin, no, we now have discrimination down to a science." Gattaca is similar to our current NASA, a space agency in the future that is only open to those with the "right things." Children, for those who can afford it, are now created by DNA manipulation, called "valids." You can essentially buy whatever traits you would like for your baby.

Vincent was conceived as a "natural birth" because his parents wanted it that way, but their next child, Anton, was a valid. Vincent's dream had always been to go to Gattaca. However, his DNA had already been analyzed by Gattaca and been determined to be "in-valid." The act of discriminating based on someone's DNA is called genoism. Vincent is of course rejected from Gattaca and has to result to becoming a janitor. However, he never loses his dream......


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