Gattca

            "I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the colour of your skin. We now have discrimination down to a science."
            
             Vincent Freeman is known as a faith birth, a godchild, a degenerate but worst of all, an in-valid. From the day he was born, Vincent was discriminated against. The film GATTACA is set in the not-to-distant future yet the technological advances have already allowed a whole new form of prejudice. While technology has greatly advanced, it seems that we as humans have not
            
             Valid and In-valid is the new discrimination. It is what the whole theme of the movie surrounds and what one man struggles to overcome. This quote looks at how the world perceives each other and how all people are treated. The start of the film we see Vincent's parents embracing "They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that any more."
            
             This quote is taken from Vincent when he is sweeping in GATTACA. The quote sums up the whole movie in one sentence. In the movie GATTACA you were born into what you would become, elite or average. Valid or In-valid. "It didn't matter how much I lied on my résumé. My real résumé was in my cells." As we saw, Vincent was born an In-valid and he struggle to achieve to be accepted, but at the same time he's own brother a Valid had the world as his oyster.
            
             The underclass that Vincent belonged to was the people who were naturally conceived. They were born the normal way. Prone to any disease or defects just like any normal person would be. The underclass does not get the same opportunities because they are not physically or intellectually superior and most of all because it is the way they are viewed from their DNA, In-valid.
            
             The Valid's where the new type of breed by eliminating ambiguities, the body it composes might thereby be perfected. This is how Vincent's brother was c...

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