Gattaca Film Analysis

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Viewing: Personal Film Response The biggest indication of a futuristic setting is the use of the bible and science in the first minutes of the film Gattaca (1997). This shows the viewer it is futuristic, because in this time period science and the bible don’t correspond with each other. So this tells the viewer things have changed in society “ The not too distant future”. The practices of this future is making genetically perfect babies, this means that the baby will have to live up to unrealistic view of society as being called perfect. The reason Niccol does not use a year in the beginning of the film is because he wants you to believe that this can happen anywhere and at anytime. The main conflict of our main character (Vincent freeman)

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