Monday 19 April 2010

Gattaca Review

The movie Gattaca shows life in the future where your job, life expectancy and pretty much everything else is determined when you are born, however if you are a test tube baby your genes and sex can be altered to make you the perfect human with no chance of diseases, excellent athletic abilities and much more.
Leading actor Ethan Hawke is human born and his life expectancy is determined to be 30 years, his parents are devastated but are sure that he will become a high rank in the food chain.
however his brother is born a test tube baby and is instantly better at everything in life than his older brother.  one day ethan runs away from home to become an astronaut while he is working at a space shuttle centre as a cleaner.  in life you are either a valid or an in-valid.  but valids can't become disabled, however he comes across a valid who is disabled and from there on he becomes that valid (Jerome Morrows-[jude law]) and lives his life as jerome morrows.  his one aim in life is to go on a 1 year trip into space which happens once every 70 years.  but an in-valid cannot even work as an office worker at the shuttle centre so he takes over jerome morrows life (with permission), the real jerome has to provide urine and blood everyday because everyday at work everyone has to give a blood sample to let them into the building.

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