GATTACA - Eugenics and Determinism 

"I was never further away from my dream than when I was standing right beside it." Top tier writing at any level.

I like the art direction in this movie. Yeah they filtered out the people who would cut their ear off. But they also lost the kind of person who would paint Starry Night

This movie changed my life. I saw it as a kid and it really inspired me to always try and overcome perceived limitations and go beyond what might seem possible. The soundtrack is so beautiful and inspiring too. Such a powerful film

Gattaca is much more closely related to Brave New World than 1984.

Great video and explanation. If there is one thing we can agree on is that this film is defiantly underrated

Good video, I did have a correction (spoilers).Only that fate had nothing to do with Jerome's fateful day 'accident'. He intentionally stepped out in front of a car. And was upset it only paralyzed him instead of killing him. As it was intended to show how wrong the predetermined fates of those with highly modified genes are. He was obviously suicidal regardless of highly eugenic efforts on his conception. The altruism he shows to Vincent especially right at the end was his last effort for his body to carry on a dream, Vincents dream, then he ends his life in the incinerator. Leaving us to think that discrimination is never right and truly the most valuable thing is to dream.

I can tell you I grew up on Welfare. Had an abusive sister and mother. No father (Well, he wasn't in my life). I graduated high school at 16, ended up in Juvenile hall twice due to my sisters lies. Group homes, you name it. Joined the Army at 17. 4th day in was Sept 11th, 2001. I was field artillery fire direction specialist. I still became a computer engineer. So I can tell you how you're born isn't how you should be judged. Become who you're meant to be. Not everyone gets that opportunity, I'm lucky for that. I know that.

I don't think this movie should really be percieved as a take on determinism. Simply because nothing can actually prove or refute existence of such thing. What we should take away from Gattaca is that no matter how illusive and scary your chances to succed might seem, if there is any possibility it could work, you can make a choice and succeed against all the odds. A man against not just society, but his own nature, too. He didn't forsake his dream and put everything in that 1% chance. It's romantic and fascinating

I absolutely love this masterpiece! It makes me think so hard and look at myself even harder.. Im obsessed with this film..

a better story would be if ppl were genetically engineered to reduce or eliminate any advantageous traits. then instead of the narrative being how do i fairly compete with those whom are superior, it becomes why should i be limited

One of my favorite movies. And some of the classical music theme songs👊❤🤗🎶🎵

I relate to Gattaca. Us short men are statistically less likely to be picked for a job, and less likely to get a promoted to a leadership position. It's as if I'm an invalid.

We just lived through this ‘genetic discrimination’ , when we ‘unpersoned’ the UNJABBED , due to a perceived ( though debatable ) fitness benefit of a very narrow and specific physiological human characteristic: IMMUNE FUNCTION . And millions of citizens were quite comfortable with participating in this artificial bias and ancestral behaviour of ‘shunning’ . Gattaca is not in our future ; it’s here now 👍🙏

human biology meaning gene enhence engenering manipulation from the get go is one thing...human defect shortcoming again negative gene is another thing....its gene angainst spirit...anton has all the genetic baggage to suceed but doesnt....we he plays blood brothers hes scared to cut himself...and then again when he swims vs vincent he loses because gene doesnt mean that spirit courage determination and most of will can overcom the hand we were dealth at birth

Supporting eugenics is like supporting the scientific method in 3000BC: in 10 years people would spite you but in 10,000 years people would glorify you.

"I am not what happend to me, but who I choose to become" - Carl Jung

"I'm not quite convinced that I'm right..." - I understand what you're saying! I hadn't looked at it in the way you talk about, which is surprising (to me) because I have thought about questions of free will vs. determinism. I haven't thought about it well enough to truly convince myself, however I err on the side of thinking that....oh....damn it...I don't know. However...if part of my journey into a successful, apparently meaningful future is that I was inspired by the idea of the triumph of human spirit by this wonderful movie, then I'm glad that I watched it. Breaks my heart even to think about the ending, and I'd recommend it to anyone to watch, think about, and discuss at length. Thanks for your upload.

I don't think this film is set in the future. I think it's a more technologically advanced past. The fashions, the style of the cars and architecture, the bigotry (it's very easy to imagine mid-20th-century racists adopting a similar prejudice against "imperfect" humans of any race). I think it's set in a version of the 50s where we had much more advanced technology than we have even today but are still held back by "racism", or in this case, "geneticism"

Been one of my favorite movies of all time ever since the first time I saw it- always wanted a part 2 where we can see where they go and what happens

"Cure class struggle?" Or create a valid and invalid struggle?

You're making an assumption that people will work in the future. We're already moving away from human labor and towards robots/AI.

Interesting and thought provoking. Thank you.

I'll go into most of the questions you brought up despite the fact I agreed with your conclusion. Although I'd like to add that Jerome entering Vincent's life wasn't an accident, he was trying to kill himself. It wasn't a chaotic event of randomness in their world but just another consequence of society. Government intervention in the future will be mandatory for issues like this. Sadly, it's hard to say if we will ever have a government trustworthy enough to warrant the power a socialistic society would require. But only a socialistic country can tackle issues like this in a healthy manner. Otherwise, the rich would be incentified to own genetic superiority over the poor forever - we do it already with education, we will do it again with genes. The law regarding genetic engineering will not stop it at all. People, regardless of the law, will seek advantages in whatever they value. Steroids are illegal today and they even come with great health risks - genetic engineering will not share a fraction of those risks but will provide endless more benefits. It will be a foolish choice for anyone to not take. Your question regarding the marketability of invalids and government intervention is a valuable one. That's why I think socialism is the future just as Marx predicted. After all, regardless of genes, automation will make us all invalids over time. Genetic engineering only highlights that inevitability. I define morality as the goal in optimizing the well-being versus suffering ratio of all sentient creatures, with a preference for humans. An action is more moral if it increases that ratio. Would genetic engineering, in isolation, increase morality by that definition? Yes, humans will live healthier more productive lives. How we as a society treat each other due to genetic engineering cannot be isolated to genetic engineering as every other variable plays a part. Over the long term, everyone will be genetically engineered anyway. Also, society will over time become more homogenous even if we don't use genetic engineering. Even without genetic engineering, we will all end up blending together to look somewhat Asian many years from now. The evidence, physics and neuroscience mostly, suggests free will does not exist and we live in a, practically speaking, deterministic universe. The evidence is concrete enough for me to believe that free would still not exist in an even far greater randomized universe.

I watched this in my Biology class

Genetic Enhancement should be optional on an individual basis.

analysing this movie is English class year 11

good vids you deserve more subs

1:08 - they use that 3rd street tunnel in a ton of films.

Never like the movie to whiny for me not Andrew niccol fan And i want ever sjw person need watch the movie 100000s days

I’m the smartest. And your comments could not be improved upon the high intellectuals.

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Gattaca did nothing wrong

you pronounce invalids wrong

Turn your master up you doink. Great video, otherwise.

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