Today, when technology is more and more dominating the world, eugenics is no longer an illusion in Plato’s “ideal country”. In fact, this concept has become reality to some extent and entered human life: marriage of close relatives is prohibited, and inheritance is targeted. The fertility policy of disease gene carriers...The film just imagines this kind of technical intervention as a higher level, and thinks about some of the problems that follow. This kind of forward-looking vision of virtual "reality" that can cross the barrier of time to a certain extent is unique to science fiction movies, rather than just let the weight of current life be forgotten in a dream country. "Lord of the Rings" and other fantasy movies.
"All men are born equal." The natural rights of people stated in Rousseau's words are not the natural state of man. In fact, people who have a real insight into society will find that the former is not completely guaranteed in any way. And having to face the fact that nature does not have a state of equality, and the equality of natural persons is more thoroughly a beautiful dream. When the earth is not as crowded as it is today, people still have the ability to escape society and choose an idyllic individualized life, to eliminate this problem by quitting comparison; but today this one is tightly linked by capital In this world, all lands are divided into national boundaries (except for the Arctic ice cap and the Antarctic continent so far). Every corner of the world has been forcibly explored, occupied and planned by civilization. A completely individual place of existence no longer exists. There is more and more nowhere to retreat, and we must face the “natural” life that has been neglected, denied, tampered with, and beautified countless times but still exists, and is confirmed by human social life all the time. equality".
Inequality is not a simple descriptive word, it will have different meanings when different standards are involved. What is shown in the film is the most mainstream and in fact the only standard that has the ability to intervene in judgment in today's society. For the new God of capital, to listen to his gospel about profit, all the values of life are reduced to efficiency and products. The protagonist of the film Vincent (Ethan Hawke), he is born genetically unqualified, 90% of the probability will die at the age of 33.2 years of heart failure. So his destiny is in this new "Bible" written by mathematical models as a life-time cleaner. The "beauty of dreams", "firmness of will", and "courage to endure hardship" are all based on economics and probability. On the front is worthless. The company will only train those "qualified people" who "heart rhythm is like a piano" during running exercises. Even if his top astronaut is an inferior genetic disability who is a self-assured treadmill but almost returns to the locker room to choke to death.
However, it was this unqualified product that was judged to be in the evolutionary history of mankind, relying on the weak heart to advance toward the boundless sea, but won over his "qualified and excellent" but almost drowned younger brother, just because he I never thought about going back ashore... It was because of the worthless judgment imposed on him by the society that the courage and conviction that regarded death as home in every struggle could burst out, and it was precisely relying on the same courage and Belief, he used his flawed DNA sequence to compose a magnificent song of struggle.
Unlike Vincent, Jerome (Jude Law) was born an extremely perfect "qualified person." When Vincent was discriminated against and abandoned by society, he was valued and expected by society. Vincent's destiny was worthless to live and die, and his destiny was "must" valuable creation and excellence. Therefore, when he, the swimmer, only won the silver medal, he could not forgive his failure, and chose to commit suicide to the extreme in an attempt to end a life for which he had no clear purpose. However, this attempt only made him unable to stand and walk anymore. He still survived. He must choose to end his meaningless life again or to re-determine a new meaning for his life. At this time he met Vincent and sold him his "qualified person" status as capital, in exchange for wine to extinguish the fire of life; however, gradually, he was also infected by Vincent's beliefs, in the exchange of roles He combined his life and Vincent's life into one and contributed his entire life to the same dream; when Vincent ascended to the sky, with the remembrance of past dreams and the gratification of achieving today’s dreams, Jerome achieved his life. The meaning of, peacefully put the silver medal of honor on the chest, and pulled down the start gate of the incinerator...
"GATTACA" composes a symphony of majestic relationship between soul and body, but it is not just a persistent hymn. Vincent transcended multiple defective genes, Jerome transcended the incomplete limbs, they conquered the destiny given to them by the society, and let the soul sit on top of the body and be unrestrained. Conversely, when a "qualified person" who has been completely alienated by this world is obsessed with "achievement", facing "obstacles", they will also break through the gene of "no tendency to violence" and use a keyboard to knock on the human skull. Got to be shattered. Washing people's hearts and creating heaven can never be a task that can be accomplished by pure technology. I regard this as a noteworthy piece of speech outside the theme of this movie.
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