A comparison of "Gattaca" and "1984"

In my opinion, there are two movies from this course, which are very comparable. The Hollywood-esque “Gattaca” is a prophetic distopia concerning genetic discrimination in the early 21st Century. George Orwell’s classic “1984” is an even darker distopia (which was revealed as a great embarrassment) dealing with crude politics and oppression of the greatest gifts of humanity. Although these films contrast diversely, they also can be applied with many similar themes. In this essay, I will discuss some of the artistic and literal connections between these films as well as show their differences and deconstruct their faults using my own personal criticism. I will show how science fiction can play a very important role in our lives, and I also hope to express my theories and ideas behind the many hidden meanings and metaphors as well as encourage you (the readers) to see these movies and the future of life from an appreciative, analytical, scientific perspective.

Out of all the great science fiction movies I have seen, “Gattaca” has one of the most realistically prophetic views of the near future. Most of its tec

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Within minutes of that scene, they are whisked away by the government officials and forced into confessions by torture. With the television screens that watch you as much as you watch them, the government soon finds out about the love affair and arrests them. This is quite an embarrassment to society, so Winston’s job is to practically “erase” history by making it seem as if events or ideas never occurred and people never existed. Something that sums up the heart of this movie is a quote shown at the beginning, “Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the future, controls the present. With wars going on all over the place with Eurasia and other countries or!

provinces, times are even harder than in normal conditions. Overall, this movie was very drab and dark, yet proves some interesting points and warned people of how the world may become if we make poor decisions. As eutopic as “Gattaca” seems, I believe this possibly coming future is a definite distopia. This also means that parents can prearrange their unborn child’s genetic pattern to choose these statistics and cheat the hands they were dealt to create a perfect child product in their image. ”As written about 25 years before it actually took place, this movie was thought by many to be the outcome of the cold war, and the already corrupt society. Feminist movements forbid sexual relations (with the one exception of reproduction) and try to eliminate all pleasure, love, and true deep feelings which people of the opposite sex (or maybe even same the sex for that matter) have for eachother. “1984 contains a lot of visual symbolism. ” Since most of this movie is about control within the government and politics, and because of Winston’s strange occupation, this little proverb can have many large translations. Many science fiction films like “Gattaca” and “1984” are mere projections of today’s society and how it may change if we stay on the same track at present and are not open to the mere thought of what a gift it is to be human. Using more of a political aspect rather than technological, Orwell depicts a world in which a power hungry merciless leader with promise to enlighten and protect his country, oppresses the people. He finds a way to cheat the system by taking on the identity of someone with a well engineered genetic history and climbs his way up the social ladder at the equivalent of present day NASA called “Gattaca,” until he finally ranks top astronaut.

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