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Gattaca
Starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Rated PG-13
Playing at Hollywood 16
★★★ (out of five)
G nttaca is a futuristic thriller, a love story and a
murder mystery rolled into one big ball of gene
splicing, passionate, whodunit adventure.
It’s too bad the movie’s characters are underde
veloped, flat and two-dimensional.
Gattaca takes place in the not-too-distant future,
a future in which people are able to choose the ge
netic makeup of their children.
The world is striving for perfection, and the only
prejudice that exists is “genoism,” discrimination
based on a person’s gene structure.
The movie stars Ethan Hawke as Vincent Free
man, a young man who was conceived in love
rather than a test tube.
His eyesight is poor, and his height is inferior —
sure signs of a birth left to nature.
He grows up with the stigma of being an “In-Valid,”
the label attached to those who are lacking a little in
the gene department. But Vincent has dreams.
He wants to be a navigator at the futuristic Gatta
ca Corporation. Unfortunately, with his gene struc
ture, the best he can hope for is a job cleaning the
company’s windows.
But as the trailers say, there is no gene for the hu
man spirit.
With strength, ambition and a little help from a
DNA broker, Vincent is able to outsmart Gattaca’s
authorities and sneak his way into the corporation.
Gattaca is the simple retelling of the age-old tale
of the small-town boy yearning to see the bright
lights of the big city.
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Titan, Saturn’s fourteenth moon, andthesi
town from which he wants to flee is Earth. 1
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