This bittersweet introduction reveals the wheelchair-bound eugenic demigod, Jerome Eugene Morrow, played by Jude Law in Andrew Niccol’s 1997 science fiction piece, Gattaca.
He will get there and if he return or not is not, or what happens after just doesn't worry him.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castWelcome to /r/FanTheories! He gives Vincent an envelope not to open before he's up in space. The selfless act makes Vincent muse that “for someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Jerome gave Vincent his identity permanently, all the DNA samples to last a lifetime. minutes without their hearts speeding up too much. He keeps it as close to himself as he does his many bottles of alcohol, both acting as expressions of his spiritual disillusionment. - I have been dreaming of a decade long assignment for years.., Yer Here i am, about to do what i dedicated my life towards... and I am about to leave behind something I am actually going to be missing..This is just another of Vincent's "F*ck-you"s to the system the 'knew him' from his DNA.Him dying up there?
Vincent reluctantly agrees to take the test, even though he has none of Jerome… But what happens right after he tells his brother he never saved any for the way back? I wouldn’t necessarily call that short-sightedness, but he was so driven in his pursuit that he gave it his all in winning it, without much thought or consideration for his way back, be it in realising his dream of travelling to space or a simple game of chicken with his brother, both of whom harboured a bittersweet relationship with each other since the beginning owing to the genetic superiority of the other.For him, victory had always been a one way journey, also reflected in when he terms his journey to space one for his new home. He finally achieved first place! To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. As the film states its timeline to be in the “not too distant future”, the world has come to normalizing artificial birthing methods, accompanied with eugenics, the science of selective genetic proliferation and birthing, and genetic discrimination. His genetic material was second to none. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. He looks up at Vincent in shame when asked if he wants to back out, as Vincent tells him “this is the last day you’re going to be you and I’m going to be me.” It would clearly be an unequal trade if not for the dominant subjugation Vincent is capable of commanding upon Eugene, wherein “Ultimately, Eugene comes to see that the unenhanced Vincent is better at being Eugene than Eugene himself” (Kirby 204). A key role in Eugene’s tragedy is the eugenic method of achieving human enhancement through scientific selection, and how “…it is clear that a eugenics program cannot succeed unless genetic determinism is accepted as the true state of the world” (Kirby 197). I doubt they'd let him get away with it just because he proved to be adequate when there were plenty of Valids to do the job.I always thought that was a plot of the film, rather than just something movie "suggests". Vincent is able to beat Anton after a lot of relentless struggle, leaving Anton surprised at his skill and stamina, while Vincent reveals the real reason he won was that he didn’t save any energy for the swim back, which is a wonderful allegory, to be explained later in the next section. At the end of the movie, why did Jerome kill himself? This is one of the few times where the camera shows Vincent and Eugene at eye level with one another, as it is a midpoint for both their transformations— the only time in which they are truly equals. A beautiful allegory, indeed.Finally, I consider ‘Gattaca’ to be a fairly inspiring movie as well. The children birthed through profiling and eliminating genetic disorders, maintaining only favourable genetic traits are termed ‘valids’, and invariably so, the ones that are a result of what we consider normal birthing without genetic pre-emption or selection are termed ‘invalids’, clearly indicating the rift between these two factions of citizens inhabiting the future world, and how the society treats them in the process.
He will get there and if he return or not is not, or what happens after just doesn't worry him.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castWelcome to /r/FanTheories! He gives Vincent an envelope not to open before he's up in space. The selfless act makes Vincent muse that “for someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Jerome gave Vincent his identity permanently, all the DNA samples to last a lifetime. minutes without their hearts speeding up too much. He keeps it as close to himself as he does his many bottles of alcohol, both acting as expressions of his spiritual disillusionment. - I have been dreaming of a decade long assignment for years.., Yer Here i am, about to do what i dedicated my life towards... and I am about to leave behind something I am actually going to be missing..This is just another of Vincent's "F*ck-you"s to the system the 'knew him' from his DNA.Him dying up there?
Vincent reluctantly agrees to take the test, even though he has none of Jerome… But what happens right after he tells his brother he never saved any for the way back? I wouldn’t necessarily call that short-sightedness, but he was so driven in his pursuit that he gave it his all in winning it, without much thought or consideration for his way back, be it in realising his dream of travelling to space or a simple game of chicken with his brother, both of whom harboured a bittersweet relationship with each other since the beginning owing to the genetic superiority of the other.For him, victory had always been a one way journey, also reflected in when he terms his journey to space one for his new home. He finally achieved first place! To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. As the film states its timeline to be in the “not too distant future”, the world has come to normalizing artificial birthing methods, accompanied with eugenics, the science of selective genetic proliferation and birthing, and genetic discrimination. His genetic material was second to none. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. He looks up at Vincent in shame when asked if he wants to back out, as Vincent tells him “this is the last day you’re going to be you and I’m going to be me.” It would clearly be an unequal trade if not for the dominant subjugation Vincent is capable of commanding upon Eugene, wherein “Ultimately, Eugene comes to see that the unenhanced Vincent is better at being Eugene than Eugene himself” (Kirby 204). A key role in Eugene’s tragedy is the eugenic method of achieving human enhancement through scientific selection, and how “…it is clear that a eugenics program cannot succeed unless genetic determinism is accepted as the true state of the world” (Kirby 197). I doubt they'd let him get away with it just because he proved to be adequate when there were plenty of Valids to do the job.I always thought that was a plot of the film, rather than just something movie "suggests". Vincent is able to beat Anton after a lot of relentless struggle, leaving Anton surprised at his skill and stamina, while Vincent reveals the real reason he won was that he didn’t save any energy for the swim back, which is a wonderful allegory, to be explained later in the next section. At the end of the movie, why did Jerome kill himself? This is one of the few times where the camera shows Vincent and Eugene at eye level with one another, as it is a midpoint for both their transformations— the only time in which they are truly equals. A beautiful allegory, indeed.Finally, I consider ‘Gattaca’ to be a fairly inspiring movie as well. The children birthed through profiling and eliminating genetic disorders, maintaining only favourable genetic traits are termed ‘valids’, and invariably so, the ones that are a result of what we consider normal birthing without genetic pre-emption or selection are termed ‘invalids’, clearly indicating the rift between these two factions of citizens inhabiting the future world, and how the society treats them in the process.