Gattaca

The movie Gattaca is set in the future, in the year that it is set, science and technology in genetics and DNA has improved incredibly. Scientists found ways to manipulate genes, and create the best possible child from the parents genes, with this technology they have also learned to eliminate a high probability of diseases or addictions or even aggressive tenancies. Parents in this time have a choice to make, having their baby the scientific way to have a perfect child or the natural way and have a "god child" which is rare at that time. Vincent's parents decided to have him the natural way and he was born with a high probability of heart disease, aggressiveness and a expected age of death of only 30. This crushed Vincent's dreams because since he was little he had wished of becoming an astronaut because space companies would only accept those with the best predispositions. When Vincent saw that the closest he would get with his DNA was cleaning the building he decided he would not settle with that and he would take the extreme route. Vincent finds a man with perfect genetics and becomes him. He does this by changing his eye color, hair etc to look like him, he then has surgery to add to his height. Every day Vincent scrubs off as much dna as he can and tries to leave no tracks of himself anywhere. Jerome, the man with the perfect genetics lives with Vincent and supplies him with blood urine etc. I think that this movie gives an interesting view on what could come in the future, it is a little bit exaggerated but has a realistic part to it. I think that the storyline is also good.