I said a very off topic question

Alivia 2022-03-21 09:01:15

Lying in bed yesterday thinking about this movie, I found a problem. Can Vincent pretend to be Jerome for the rest of his life?
If he lives alone, he can take urine, blood samples, change hair, and skin every day, but he and Irene are together, they may have children, should they tell the children that their identity is fake?
One idea is that Vincent has achieved his goal and flew into space, and it doesn't matter whether he will be exposed after coming down, because his dream has come true.
But if he is not found, he will always survive as Jerome.
In fact, Jerome and Vincent are already together in a way, so my question is not a problem.
But this movie reminds me of another one, Human Stain, where a black biracial black man who wants to be a professor, like Vincent, makes up his mind to be a Jew for the same dream.
Their dreams did come true, but they both abandoned their identities.
Vincent also said that now he's become a nasty elite in society. He originally deeply hated genetic discrimination, but he had to adapt to this genetic discrimination society for his dreams, and abandoned his Invalid identity.
Isn't this surrender?
Or he has no other way, for the dream, only to surrender.
Or maybe it wasn't giving in, because in Vincent's eyes, there was no difference between those who were genetically selected and those who weren't.
But I still feel sad.
The doctor said that his own child was also conceived, but he did not think his child was inferior, and he wondered if he would make a name for himself in the future.
Will this kid be an identity thief like Vincent in the future?
This fantasy society of genetic discrimination gives me some headaches.
I know racism is wrong because no one is roughly genetically the same.
But what about genes?
If we can know the strengths and weaknesses of this person through some means, and then stipulate what he can and cannot do, is this discrimination? This is scientifically based.
I think what is involved here is the question of freedom.
I don't know what the definition of freedom is, but for this film, I want to understand it as everyone has the right to be who he wants to be, not a predetermined person.
Vincent wants to fly into space, but society forces him to be a cleaner.
Jerome doesn't want to do anything, but society forces him to do the perfect thing.
The implication of this compulsion is that it totally emphasizes adaptation and ignores desire. At some point, it's not what i am apt at that matters, but what i want.


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Gattaca quotes

  • [last lines]

    Vincent: [voiceover] For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.

  • Vincent: Is the only way you can succeed is to see me fail?