GATTACA!

Why do you think Vincent left his family, tearing his picture out of the family photo, after winning the swimming race against his brother?

I believe that Vincent left his family because he felt like staying there wasn't the best option for him. He wanted to prove everyone wrong by becoming what everyone said he wouldn't, and he did! 

Describe the relationship between Vincent and Anton.

 Anton was always put above Vincent. Everyone believed that since Anton didn't have the "flaw" that Vincent did, he could accomplish so much more. 

When Jerome Morrow said to Vincent/Jerome, “They’re not looking for you. When they look at you, they only see me,” what did he mean? Can you find any parallels to this type of situation in real life?

When the real Jerome Morrow said that to Vincent he was trying to explain that when they see him, they see no flaws because Jerome was supposed to be "flawless". Therefore, they wouldn't be looking for a flaw or someone else behind the scenes. In real life I would have to say that there is a lot of things like this. In many situations people want perfection, so when they see the light of perfection they don't want anything to change it.  

Choose your favorite character from the film. Explain why you choose that person. Would you want to be that person? Why? Why not?

 My favorite person would have to be the real Jerome Morrow even though I strongly disagree with some of the decisions he made. He had to be my favorite person because he didn't want perfection like everyone else did, he wanted to be normal. He was unselfish enough to give up his life & his body to someone who made something of it. Even in the end, he thought of it as Vincent lent him his dream not that Jerome gave Vincent his body. I'm not sure if i would want to be him, because in the end he did choose the easy way out, but I believe he was a good person.

At the end of the film, you are told that the Doctor knew about Vincent all along. Why did the Doctor go along with the fraud? What would you have done if you were the Doctor?

The doctor went along with the fraud because Vincent had achieved something that his son wanted so badly. Vincent cheated the system to achieve his dream, and if that's what it took I'm sure the doctor would want his son to achieve his dreams as well. If I were the doctor, I would have went along with the fraud because, in a sense, all he was doing was living his dream. Just because someone has the possible heart problem that shows in their DNA traits doesn't mean they don't have the right to become WHATEVER they want! It's like telling someone who has asthma they can't become an athlete. 

  

The technology to do what was done in the movie is definitely possible within the next fifty years. Do you think that Vincent’s world could eventually happen in America? Why?

I believe that it actually could happen, but the likelihood of that exact thing is unlikely. Maybe the pizza order video may happen (everyone has access to all of your information) but I don't believe certain things (like jobs) will be blocked off because of a possibility of a disease.   

What do you think is wrong with the society portrayed in "GATTACA"? What is right?

I believe they TRIED to make a good society and their intentions weren't bad. That would probably be what is right. Outside of that the society in GATTACA wasn't right because of the restrictions it included. Vincent is a PERFECT example that ANYONE can be whatever their little heart desires! 

   

What were the screenwriters trying to tell us through the episode of the 12-fingered pianist? Is anything wrong with engineering children to have 12 fingers if, as a result, they will be able to make extraordinarily beautiful music?

 Every person has their own talents. I don't think that people should engineer children or people to have the certain traits that they want them to. Its selfish. 

You and your spouse are having a child and are at the Genetic Clinic pictured in the movie. What characteristics would you want for your child and what would you ask to be excluded? Why would you make those choices?

I honestly wouldn't want to make ANY choices. I would want my child to be perfect in his/her own way.. not in mine!

  

Picture yourself as either Vincent, Jerome, or Anton. Would you have acted the same or done things differently if you were in the same world as them?

I would of done a lot of things different in Jerome's position. I would continued to live my life after Vincent took over his identity. There wasn't a reason to do what he did.

How does the society in GATTACA resemble the type of society America was during the height of the eugenics movement?

America wanted people to be perfect. They even sterilized people to keep them from passing on certain traits to their children. It resembles GATTACA a whole lot!

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