Gattaca (Special Edition) starring
Xander Berkeley, Ernest Borgnine,
Jayne Brook, Loren Dean, Ethan
Hawke
Gattica: The Dvd
Confidently conceived and brilliantly executed, Gattaca had a somewhat
low profile release in 1997, but audiences and critics hailed the films
originality. Its since been recognized as one of the most intelligent science
fiction films of the 1990s. Writer-director Andrew Niccol, the talented New
Zealander who also wrote the acclaimed Jim Carrey vehicle The Truman
Show, depicts a near-future society in which ones personal and
professional destiny is determined by ones genes. In this society, Valids
(genetically engineered) qualify for positions at prestigious corporations,
such as Gattaca, which grooms its most qualified employees for space
exploration. In-Valids (naturally born), such as the films protagonist,
Vincent (Ethan Hawke), are deemed genetically flawed and subse quently
fated to low-level occupations in a genetically caste society. With the help
of a disabled Valid (Jude Law), Vincent subverts his societys social and
biological barriers to pursue his dream of space travel; any random
mistake--and an ongoing murder investigation at Gattaca--could reveal his
plot. Part thriller, part futuristic drama and cautionary tale, Gattaca
establishes its social structure so convincingly that the entire scenario is
chillingly believable. With Uma Thurman as the woman who loves Vincent
and identifies with his struggle, Gattaca is both stylish and smart, while
Jude Laws performance lends the film a note of tragic and heartfelt
humanity. --Jeff Shannon
A little masterpiece of science-fiction from and about the time when
everything will be governed by the genome of every individual. You will be
identified through it, you will be followed from birth to grave by it. Good
morning Vietnam, good morning genome-drome, genoism. You will be
nothing but a complex DNA identity. Too complex to memorize, but any
machine can memorize even more complex things and recognize them.
But here we have several couples of interest and rivalry. A child born
naturally and whose fate is doomed to be deemed bad and it is supposed
to be bad, and life expectancy is as low as some odd 30 years. On the
other side his brother was genetically correct and perfect. Unluckily the
former has a dream and the latter has none. The former is motivated to do
what only the genetic elite can do, and he is not. The latter is motivated to
do nothing except be a bureaucrat that will trace out all the fakes, the non-
genetically perfect who are trying to go through nevertheless, frauds in
other words, like his own brother. The latter will find a way to go through
the genetic selection by assuming the identity of a genetically perfect man
who suffered a severe accident and cannot be anything any more. That is
hard work, but that is possible because they are only dealing with
machines, as long as they are dealing wi th machines. But there comes a
time, and it is a lot earlier in the story than you may think, that one will
trace the fraud but will say nothing because he has a personal reason to
see if the fraud will go through and that the fraud will go through.
Remember: it is a Mark Twain trick: a right handed man normally holds his
[...] with his right hand when he urinates, and a left handed man does the
reverse. The details of the end are not interesting here. One thing is
interesting though. If the future world decides to become genetically
correct we are going to cheat a lot because success anywhere depends on
only one thing: motivation, first and foremost, and intellectual and even
physical qualifications are only second to that motivation. A small
prodigious marvel to be seen by anyone who believes man is better and
more important than science which is only an extension of mans mental
and nervous system, not a replacement, a prosthesis.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne,
University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
For More 5 Star Customer Reviews and Lowest Price:
Gattaca (Special Edition) starring Xander Berkeley, Ernest Borgnine, Jayne Brook, Loren
Dean, Ethan Hawke - 5 Star Customer Reviews and Lowest Price!