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Movie Summary - Gattaca

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The movie “Gattaca” by Andrew Niccol is a movie set in the near future. The movie is basically about Vicente, who is one of the last naturally born babies. Once born they are automatically born with diseases and may die sooner, in Vincent’s case his life expectancy was 30 years and 2 monts. His number one dream since he was a little boy was to go up to the space. He met a guy named Jerome, a disable who had been in a car accident, agrees with Vicente to take his identity in order to enter the Gattaca Corporation. There was many noticeable themes during the movie, however the strongest one were perfection, potential and determination. First theme present in the movie was potential. In my opinion, potential is the main theme during the entire movie. In order for Vincent to increase his potential, he was willing to get gene modification. Society associated in-valid as incompetent and they would definitely not accept them. Even the police did everything they could when they found out there was a in-valid working at the Gattaca. They could not stand that an in-valid could become better than the rest. However, some examples were shown during the movie where people do exceed their potential and one of them was when Vincent beat his brother and swimming. Another theme present in the movie was potential. In my opinion, potential is the main theme during the entire movie. In order for Vincent to increase his potential, he was willing to get gene modification. Society associated in-valid as incompetent and they would definitely not accept them. Even the police did everything they could when they found out there was a in-valid working at the Gattaca. They could not stand that an in-valid could become better than the rest. However, some examples were shown during the movie where people do exceed their potential and one of them was when Vincent beat his brother and swimming. Last, determination plays another role during the movie. In order

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