tics and cheat the hands they were dealt to create a perfect child product in their image. In result of many years of the creation of an elite group of superhumans,!
             people are no longer discriminated against by race, personality, or religion, but are judged only by the superiority of their genetic code. Accordingly, the story of "Gattaca" concerns a young man named Vincent who is born naturally without genetic engineering. His kind of people are known as "god children" and don't have much of a chance outside the systematically lower class. However, Vincent is determined to follow his dream of going into space (which is politically impossible for someone of his physical genetic state, no matter how intelligent). 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. When one of his directors is murdered, accidental traces of Vincent's true "in-valid" self are found and he is the prime suspect, even though he is truly innocent. Thus, the plot thickens a!
             nd he is forced to come forward with his identity to his love interest Irene, and succeeds in escaping the hands of the police wanting him for fraud. In the end, his dreams come true and he blasts off into the blue, while Eugene (the new name for the man who supplied Vincent's false genetics) commits suicide and leaves this cruel world behind.
             In this exciting twist of sci-fi, romance, hard science, Futuristics, and brilliant entertainment, I find the hidden meanings to be the most interesting. The relationship between Eugene and Vincent is somewhat of a tradeoff friendship. They both gave eachother a special chance to follow and act upon their most passionate, agonizing dream. While Vincent was allowed to apply his intelligence and chara...