Set in a “not-too-distant” retro-chic future, “Gattaca” shows a society where your genetic blueprint dictates your livelihood and opportunities.
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Now that its predictions are becoming true, Andrew Niccol's 1997 gene-engineered dystopia is especially uncomfortable.
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The film is almost painfully uncomfortable to watch now because the scenario it posits is scientifically conceivable, albeit socially untenable and unlikely.
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The scene from Andrew Niccol's 1997 film Gattaca reveals what I call “the identity problem”: the discomfort of the couple and the dissonance between them ...
... Andrew Niccol's. construction of GATTACA as a bioethical text focuses on three. prominent concerns: 1) genetic discrimination against those who are. David A ...
The idea of a country where the only thing that matters is your genetics is a very scary one, and Niccol is able to create a story of one man, ...