Micheal Nyman's music in gattaca has a large influence on how the audience interprets scenes throughout the film. Alongside Nyman's music, Andrew niccol uses various techniques such as filters, camera shots, editing, lighting and sound affects which all contribute in helping to portray the emotions felt by the characters. Gattaca is a movie about deception and perfection in the 'not so distant future'. It is a 'surveillance' society obsessed with perfection who leave little or not lee way for those who are 'invalid' or are born as a 'god-child'.
             The element of deception is highlighted at the begging of the film as we see microscopic views of excess flakes of skin, hair and nails which ironically look like snow, and pieces of lumbar to the viewers. These microscopic close-ups are done alongside cold and haunting music with a loud exaggeration of sounds when the nails and hair hits the surface. This haunting music could also be interpreted as being suspenseful thereby creating a sense of anxiety and deception. The music then soon starts to change from an ominous composition to one with much sorrowful type of tune. This is when we first meet the protagonist Vincent Anton freeman. The viewers first see Vincent from behind the grails of a furnace emphasizing a sense of imprisonment. Niccol uses extreme close ups with a blue filter to enable us to see details of his 'perfect' body. At this stage Vincent is scrubbing vigoursly away to cleanse himself of as much of his 'in-valid' DNA as possible, to limit how much of himself he will leave in the 'valid world'. The opening scene of the film has absolutely no talking and it is these visual shots alongside the editing and the sorrowful and ominous music which helps the audience see the type of sacrifice and turmoil Vincent goes through in order to achieve his dreams.
             Vincent isn't the only character
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