Gattaca Gene Quotes

People want to pass their best gene to their offspring if they have choice. The gene itself is selfish base on Dawkins's theory. People pass their best gene to the next generation in order to successfully pass to the even next generation. In the movie Gattaca, people's destiny are already being set since they were born. Someone are good at art, someone are good at study, and someone are good at sport. Most of people are not quite the same, but they are one thing in common -- almost perfect because most of them were not chosen by god but by the scientist and their parents. The manager in the Gattaca company who controlled the mission to Titan told to the police detective when he was being investigate: "You won't find a violent bone in my body. Take another look at my profile, Detective." The detective can't argue with him because this is how they believe in and live depend on. Although they find out that the old manager who has no …show more content…
They can give up all the bad possibility such as obesity, violence, depression, and any other bad thing that they don't want their kids born with and even the gender are also choseable. Vincent's parents decided to have another kid who is not "god born" so they went to the scientist and ask for help. Vincent's parents want a boy that are healthy and smart enough to carry his father's name. The scientist told them that everyone want their child get the best possible start, and naturally conceive would only appear once in thousand times. They told the scientist that they want a boy that Vincent could play with and grow up with but this is not the whole truth why they want a boy but not a girl. It's easy to tell from the scientist's face he was not convinced by their reason at all. They knows that being a male is also one of the better option for kids because there are gender hierarchy in Gattaca society everywhere. Most of the