Gattaca (DVD)

This film, largely the project of one man, writer and director Andrew Niccol, is a slow-paced but enthralling story exploring a very plausible near future. Vincent, our hero, is one of the tiny minority of children born in this era not genetically modified in any way. He was conceived "traditionally", in a not unattractive car, and born without any natural susceptibilities removed. His brother Anton, customised by a local geneticist, was deemed worthy of his father's name and always performed better than Vincent. But, like the heroes of so many human-interest stories, Vincent had a dream. This dream and the determination to overcome his society's ...  Read the complete review

As I became a fan of Andrew Niccol's work after watching The Trueman Show, I was really looking forward to watching this and I wasn't disappointed. Set in a "not too distant future" where parents can genetically configure their children down to the last detail prior to birth which has resulted in DNA being the determining feature of a persons social class. The film stars Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman, a troubled member of the social underclass struggling against discrimination in his dream to become an astronaut. As the main character, through his narration we learn of his troubled past and how he instilled in himself his sense of ...  Read the complete review

Gattaca is one of my all time favourite sci-fi movies. I am not a huge fan of the genre, I must admit, in fact my reason for being such a big fan of this movie is because it relies so little on the genre for its story to be told. I am not interested in writing a review that simply copies information from the IMDB, or that simply tells the plot. I want to review the themes in the movie, to let you know what my take on it was. In that respect then, as I have said, one of the best things about this movie is that it is not your usual sci-fi film. It is so much more than that, whilst being less than sci-fi. The crux of the movie hinges on a sci-fi ...  Read the complete review

In the more compartmentalised video stores you will find Gattaca tucked away in the science-fiction department. Whilst this is ostensibly true, Gattaca is a film absolutely centred on humanistic notions of self-worth, friendship, love and hope, told against a semi-dystopian backdrop of overt government control. The 'Gattaca' in question is a prestigious Aeronautics corporation, a NASA equivalent, (Gattaca gets its name from the 'alphabet' of DNA, constructed of the four letters, G C T and A) and it is here that Vincent (Ethan Hawke) works. He dreams of becoming an astronaut, exploring and navigating space as a cartographic traveller on board one of ...  Read the complete review

This is a very strange film that for some reason I greatly enjoyed. It is futuristic and highly imaginative film. The story is extremely intriguing and has some great characters that are played by some great actors. The story is very entertaining if you are into sci fi flicks that have content beyond anything you have ever seen. The story is about a futuristic world that allows wealthy people to choose the genetic traits they would like their offspring to possess. This manufacturing of offspring becomes the new thing creating a race of perfect and highly unimaginative species. However, when a family decided to have a true child without using the genetic ...  Read the complete review