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Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best…
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Gattaca is one of those films that never needed explosions, aliens, or massive special effects to make its point. Released in 1997, it chose something far more unsettling. It showed a future that feels calm, orderly, and completely believable, which is exactly why it works so well. The film is set in a world where genetics determine everything. At birth, people are sorted into categories based on their DNA, with the…More
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Gattaca PG-13 1997 ‧ Sci-fi/Thriller ‧ 1h 46m Below I continue my dystopian movie series with my third discussion about a nineties dystopian future film. Gattaca and the Future It Saw Coming The 1997 movie Gattaca imagined a future where your DNA decides everything — your job, your social status, even your chances at love or freedom. At the time, it felt like a cool, stylish sci-fi film. But now, with things like ge…More
Gattaca is not just a science fiction movie, it's almost a philosophical discussion about discrimination, the meaning of perfection, and what it truly means to be human. The plot of the movie presents us with a future in which humanity is divided into two types of individuals: the valid and the invalid. Based on that classification, each person's destiny is predetermined from birth. However, in the movie, the protag…More
(This review was written during the Kuala Lumpur's Philosophy Fest last week. In one session, there was a screening of the film Gattaca and the invited panels were a film director, Al Jafree and a scholar, Dr. Azman Ismail. Here are my thoughts after the session, and after watching the film again after more than 20 years) What is immediately clear to me (philosophically) is that this film is of Retrofuturism, which…More
The Golden Age of Science Fiction was a long time ago. The period with the largest number of genre classics was roughly between mid 1960s and mid 1970s, and in that time many grand film makers approached science fiction not as an excuse for bug eyed monster, special effects or cute toy-selling aliens but actually as a genre of ideas. There were many attempts to restore that state of affairs to Hollywood and other pa…More
Source # Plot In the near future, where the story is set, it is possible to conceive human beings with a certain genetic makeup. The traits of the unborn child can be anticipated through this method, allowing it to enter the world without any flaws. In this situation, society is split into Valids—beings with a perfect genetic make-up—and Non-Valids—people born with imperfect genomes who are doomed to live on the per…More
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When talking about favorite fictional character, Vincent Anton Freeman from the movie Genetic Experiment came to my mind all at once. This character hooked me because since he was born he was destined to failure, this because of the context of the movie in which medical tests are done to determine if he qualifies to be a valid or an invalid , falling him in the second group, so much so that his father gives him a na…More
My movie proposal today is a movie that most people are eagerly waiting for but does not pay much attention to in time. So in 1997. The filmmakers couldn't afford their labor. I thought of dreamers in the 1920s. People in those years had very different dreams for the years we live now. Flying cars are one of these dreams. But a hundred years later, technology and robots will be more important than genes. I watc…More
Gattaca is probably one of those movies you missed and didn't even know it. It came out in 1997 and didn't do well in the theaters and only became popular after. The movie from what I can see on Wikipedia has somewhat of a cult following. The movie stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law and has an impressive 7.8 rating on IMBd. As I have mentioned in the past, I generally find anything rated 6.0+ as good and 7…More
Eugenics can be seen as a state-enforced genetic selection at birth and has naturally raised a growing concern, as the technology of genetic manipulation has become more and more developed and economically feasible. It is not cloning, like with Dolly the sheep from the year before the premiere of this movie, but seeking out the best combination of egg and sperm for at particular heterosexual couple to ensure their d…More