Questions about GATTACA!

Questions about GATTACA!

Choose several of the following questions to discuss in a blog post reflection on the movie GATTACA. This reflection might be used as an artifact on your portfolio page 4 and could help demonstrate your awareness of the effects of science and technology upon society.

1. The following terms were used in the movie. How do they relate to the words we use: degenerate and invalid?

        De-gene-erate

        In-valid

        Borrowed Ladder

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

Because he realized he was able to do things if he really put his mind to it, no matter how difficult or complex, he can do it, so he went to go fufil his dreams because he knew he could do it, and he took his picture so his family wouldnt see that picture and miss him so much.

3. Describe the relationship between Vincent and Anton.

It was a very competitive relationship.

4. 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?

He meant since he was paralized and couldnt go anywhere and Vincent had his look and everything, his whole ID basically, they would just assume it was Jerome. They never knew a “Vincent” so they will expect Jerome to be Jerome.

5. 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 character was Vincent because I saw a little of how I think in how he thinks and acts. I would not want to be this person because with my own problems I would not want to undergo so much stress and anxiety.

6. 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?

He went along with it because his son was also born naturally or was an “in-valid”. If i was the doctor i would have let im slide also cause its proving all the valid people wrong that an imperfect person does have willpower to achieve their dreams however and whatever it takes, even if its not easy.

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

I think that it is already there. If you go look in the big bussinesses, all the stuff you see in movies is there. Its only available to the rich or whoever can afford it. It will get to everyone eventually in time.

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

No one acts like they have emotions, they are like robots, but, they are all perfect, so thats another thing wrong with the society, everyones the same not themselves.

 

9. 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?

That you can make someone with 12 fingers if you wanted to. there is nothing wrong with it as long as it is used for their life like the pianist, his fingers are his career. Also not everyones a piano master.

10. 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 would want my kid to be smart, blonde, bright blue eyes, a good height, good at sports,  and i would want them to exclude every mental problem, disorder, or disease they might have inherited from either me or my spouse. I would make these choices so they dont have to struggle in life and they could be able to just do what they wanted easily.  

 

11. 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?

Everything vincent did, if i was in his situation, I would do. Its a smart and flawless plan.

12. How does the society portrayed in GATTACA resemble the type of society that some Americans were hoping for during the height of the Eugenics movement?

Its a little extreme like going to space. thats not goin to happen for another like 50 more more years. everything else is pretty muvh already getting that way.