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Gattaca a movie that explores the future of society in terms of what we have to undertake as far as discrimination and stereotyping is concerned, depicts one mans fight to reach an impossible goal. In the future racism will not longer be exploited, rather whether a person is naturally born or engineered will impact greatly on their future and what they will be able to accomplish. The not too distance future dictates all you can be, by what you are made up of as a person, genes. Vincent the protagonist in the film is a degenerate, meaning he is born naturally, this affects his life greatly as he is diagnosed with a heart defect at birth and a predicted life expectancy of 30 years is placed upon him. Being born naturally poses Vincent’s greatest threat, being that he cannot fulfil his dreams of being on a shuttle mission into space, as he doesn’t have the physical prerequisite of perfect genes. His genes allow him to jobs such as a janitorial work and to lead an average life, one of hope. Vincent discovers the only way to reach his goal is to play a different role and to swindle society into believing he is Jerome Morrow. In deceiving the environment around him he becomes very close to Irene a valid, who he can relate to.
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