These are two classic examples of how technology might serve to depose – or even usurp – nature. In the movie Gattaca, geneticists use technology to overpower the nature; people live in a society that genetically modified children are more preferable to “faith birth” – they are the symbol of perfection. The technology is designed by giving children the best possible start because they believed humankind have enough imperfection built in already and children do not need any additional burdens, hence they eradicate any potentially prejudicial conditions, assume they are doing the best for mankind. Except, the technology in Gattaca has exceeded our humanity, it is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal, geneticists ‘killed’ a life
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Politicians and the media have manipulated any number of ideas or events to distort the truth, until the distortions themselves have – for many, if not the majority in our society – become accepted. Gattaca is set in a future where science, and not religion, has taken over society. The symbol ‘∞’ and ‘†’ occurred few times in Gattaca, only one drop of blood is needed for the testing machine and it will able to determine the classes of people – valid or invalid. Even though Gattaca was set in a different time and place than our owns, society is still facing the discrimination issue – Genoism – it is called; Vincent belonged to a new underclass no longer determined by social status or skin colour, he was having discriminated down to a science. Gattaca is oppressive, the tiny individual has to versus the society which everyone is accepting and passive of their places – no one would like to stand out and no one would like to speak out – they all hide in their ‘shells’, obtain the reality. The idea of fear governs in Gattaca is obvious, Vincent is intensely feared of being caught of his fake identity. There are frequent scenes that Vincent tried to clean everything in every place he has been. The horror is surrounded him all the time, he tried to eliminate the evidences, pretended he is never exist in the world – all because fear, the terror of himself might be suspected by
Politicians and the media have manipulated any number of ideas or events to distort the truth, until the distortions themselves have – for many, if not the majority in our society – become accepted. Gattaca is set in a future where science, and not religion, has taken over society. The symbol ‘∞’ and ‘†’ occurred few times in Gattaca, only one drop of blood is needed for the testing machine and it will able to determine the classes of people – valid or invalid. Even though Gattaca was set in a different time and place than our owns, society is still facing the discrimination issue – Genoism – it is called; Vincent belonged to a new underclass no longer determined by social status or skin colour, he was having discriminated down to a science. Gattaca is oppressive, the tiny individual has to versus the society which everyone is accepting and passive of their places – no one would like to stand out and no one would like to speak out – they all hide in their ‘shells’, obtain the reality. The idea of fear governs in Gattaca is obvious, Vincent is intensely feared of being caught of his fake identity. There are frequent scenes that Vincent tried to clean everything in every place he has been. The horror is surrounded him all the time, he tried to eliminate the evidences, pretended he is never exist in the world – all because fear, the terror of himself might be suspected by