Blog 3: Gattaca

We all dream to live in a Utopian society but is it really a perfect society after all? Nothing is perfect; a Utopian society has its flaws as well believe it or not. As I watched the movie Gattaca, I came to realize that the director portrays a Utopia but adds subliminal messages throughout the scenes of the film. Overall, I believe the film Gattaca is a dystopian society. In the film, I witnessed many scenes that I wouldn’t consider to be a part of a Utopian society. In Gattaca, the director created a society where mainly all of the human beings were genetically engineered with perfect genes. When given birth, the doctor’s would inform the parents of the child what the life expectancy was. If the child was genetically engineered they would be considered as valid and had the ability to do anything they wanted in life. On the other hand, the non-genetically engineered children, also known as the invalids had a hard time growing up. An example from the film showing a dystopian society would be when Irene informed Vincent that she had a heart condition. Irene was genetically engineered and grew to have a heart condition, and Vincent who wasn’t genetically engineered also had a heart condition. Even being genetically engineered to become a “perfect child” could always go wrong. While watching this movie I started to notice that it was giving off a subliminal message that, science always has a chance of going wrong. Eugene a valid person in this society had the perfect life, and health; what led him to commit suicide? Eugene was a swimmer, where he would continuously compete one day he won second place; but with his health he should have been coming in first. This drove him off the edge, and he tried getting hit by a car, but instead he became paralyzed. Science could only get you so far in life; it’s all about the effort you put in a goal you wish to accomplish. Throughout the movie, the characters would always have to give a small amount of their blood to get into a building. I believe this could make the person weaker, and there is a greater amount of possibility to obtain an illness. I believe that way of living belongs to a dystopian society such as Gattaca. When I think of a Utopian society I think of no crime or harm. In the film Gattaca, a man was brutally murdered with a keyboard, a genetically engineered man committed this crime. The mission director committed this crime; he was genetically engineered to not have a violent bone in his body.   

Can you identify what my thesis is?