The film is strongly about identity but it uses genetics to show this. When I think of identity I think about how a person looks physically or how they sound. These can all be copied by technology, Gattaca uses individual genetics to ensure that an identity is kept. The film is about a man who was born with poor genetics and to achieve his dream he must be someone who he is not. He pays to become someone else. With the help of a man who has perfect genes he is able to become this person. The person who has the perfect genetics was in an accident and unable to be his live his life at full potential, this is why he decides to help out the main character.
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The film uses technology to mask the man’s true identity, plastic fingerprints with blood underneath is used for when the ID scanners are pricked. Hair, blood urine and skin are all used to help create this fraud. A murder then accurse in the film and it almost becomes a detective film, he is then under suspicion throughout the rest of the film. It has a similar theme to Minority Report although he is not innocent like in the other film but both are on the run.
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