The science fiction film “Gattaca”, which is directed by Andrew Niccol, shows us a fictional future world that everything is related to the genetic technology. People are given birth in the glass uteruses---text tubes, with genetically enhanced genes, are given as the identity of “Valids”. The future for them are no longer unpredictable, everything they want can be designed as their inborn skills or characteristics, even the appearance and sex. The whole society believe that people who are born in this way have less disadvantages and more intelligent, giving birth by female’s pregnancy should be abolished before more and more inferiors come to the world. Inferiors---also as known as naturally conceived humans, are not accepted by the world, society considered their alternative paths of future as an unstable element, and their body may have some negative conditions. Therefore, they are given the identity “Invalids”, a highly derogatory name, by the society. As they think gene is the only qualified evidence to prove people’s superiority, the discrimination against Invalids has arisen.
Vincent, the protagonist of the film, is an invalid who adopts the identity of a valid, works in a high-secured company as a navigator specialized in aerospace technology. He used to work in that company as a cleaner, which is considered as a suitable job for an in-valid. To achieve his dream of going to the outer space, he changed his identity with Jerome and became a valid. He became extremely careful of hiding his true identity, this was proved by the initial scene when Vincent was rubbing his skin raw with a wire brush. And also some significant close-up on the evidence of his true identity in the film, we can clearly feel the harshness for him to survive in such a discriminatory world.
“Discrimination is now a science.” This sentence was reinforced by the close-ups on the equipments that the police used to detect Invalids, and the sound is very inharmonious when an Invalid was...