Gataca

Inequality (race,gender etc)

In the movie “Gattaca” you see the biogenetic and the DNA part of the future. They say that this could happen in the near future, there will be a specific gene and your genes will ultimately determine your fate. Your genes and your DNA will determine where you work, where you live and the things that you do. They may use this as a way to track people and to make sure everybody is doing their job and that they are in the correct place. Everybody will have the same DNA, this means that everybody will look the same and do the same things. My reaction to this is that this is not good for the people in the future. You cannot conform a certain person to act a certain way or do certain things because everybody is different and everybody does different things. Everybody would not want to be the same because the world would be boring. What makes us so different and unique than everybody else is our ability to be free and do whatever we want. I feel like if we all have the same DNA then it is like we are being controlled and we are not free anymore. It is like they are putting restrictions and limits on us as a way to control us, this is ultimately not right and will not work, it will only cause chaos and disaster. In the movie you already see this not working because the people seem hopeless and it looks like they know what they are heading to and they are losing hope each day.

The purpose of this movie trailer is to show the effects and the consequences that the advanced technology could have on us in the future. Technology is great, it really helps us in life and it makes things easier for us. But how much technology is enough? When will technology get too advanced for us? We see this advancement in technology in the movie “Gattaca” where technology is too advanced for the people and it ultimately ends up hurting us.  We see the consequences of the new technology. With the new technology where everybody has the same DNA people are trying to search for themselves. They are trying to find out who they actually are and the things that they like to do. It is almost like they are in someone else’s body and they are trying to get out of it before it is too late. They are trying to figure out their purpose in life and what they are destined to be. The techniques used to achieve this purpose are at the beginning of the movie the letters G, A, T, C were all highlighted in the title. I believe that G, A, T, and C are all the different gene types. So this really emphasizes that the movie will be about DNA and gene types. Also they show the people after their DNA has been changed, they look shocked, hopeless and they look like they don’t know where they are, like they are new to a place and it’s their first time being there. The overall purpose of this work is to show that technology is good but it can also have its consequences as shown through the movie clip “Gattaca.”

In this movie the word “human” means that everybody is exactly the same and they have the same DNA and genes and there are specific jobs for every person in their society. The humans have strict rules and regulations that they have to follow. When I think of the word “human” I think of everybody being different, people wearing different clothes and people just doing whatever they want to do. But in this movie the humans cannot do that, they are controlled and have to follow the society’s rules. But what happens if they do not follow these rules? What happens if they use civil disobedience?  What happens if they go against what everybody else is doing?

Our depictions of the future reveal that the present may not be as bad as we make it out to be. We teenagers are always complaining about school and how much work we have to do and how busy we are. But look at all the things that we can do, we are free and have the right to do anything and be who we want to be, not what someone else wants us to be. As we see in this movie people in the future may not be as lucky as us, they might have to accept certain rules and limitations on their lifestyles.