GATTACA

Questions about GATTACA!

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

         De-gene-erate-- The lost of there genes

         In-valid- a person becoming weak

         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?

 Maybe because he not a loser or anything and so he feels that since he beat his no problem with brother he can beat anything out in the world.

3. Describe the relationship between Vincent and Anton.

From in the movie Anton and Vincent seemed different. They didn’t look really brotherly like. They were separate from each other. They were two totally different people.

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?

I think what he means is that even though you are not me when they look at you they’ll see me in your eyes.

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 would have to be Vincent just because he didn’t give up. He wanted some thing and he stuck him mind to it.

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?

The doctor probably knew about his condition and wanted him to keep his job. He probably thought to himself if someone had to go through all that trouble then he must love the job that he does. Yes I would of gone along with it as well.

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

Yes I do think that Vincent world can happen in American. Anything is possible if you set your mind to do it.

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

What I think is wrong is not letting Vincent work as what he wanted to become just because of his condition he had. What I think is right is he believing in himself and wanted to work there and he did something about it so that he can.

 

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 it shouldn’t matter how many fingers a child has it matters how well a child can play with those fingers

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 child to be smart very creative and able to play the piano. I would pick these just because these are what people need in there life or they show have in there life. Not so much the piano, but everything else I said.

 

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?

Probably not I would have just done what they did in the movie from what I saw I did not see the ending of it.

12. How does the society in GATTACA resemble the type of society America was during the height of the eugenics movement?

It represents that people were strict about there workers.