A genetic chain, tethering people's life

Betsy 2022-04-23 07:01:17

The masterpiece is a piece of gold that never fades.
"Clinical Hair", also known as Variant Yisha, Natural Man, Ghataka, Gatika, etc., no matter which name it is, it does not intersect with the main story line and the core idea conveyed by the film. , however, the ever-expanding popcorn commercial film failed to seal this piece of gold forever in its shadow. On the contrary, this old 1997 film has no gorgeous visual effects, no deafening sound effects, no The star lineup in groups is just relying on the almost mediocre and stealthy narrative techniques to create a series of story effects, putting on the coat of science fiction, with scientific prejudice, using the depravity of human nature to foresee a certain possibility in the future, There is a Forrest Gump-style struggle blueprint interspersed in the middle, which makes this film look refined, alternative, unique and excellent.

Prying through the gaps in the papyrus of God's creation of man
About whether science ultimately brings happiness or disaster to mankind, this does not depend on the development of science and technology to a certain extent, but depends on what human beings do and what purpose they achieve with it. The god-like genetic technology in the film peeks into everyone's future almost transparently, and it also determines everyone's future. Thinking that they can get fairer treatment, science, this double-edged sword that can manipulate human history at any time, and pulls the discrimination in human nature back from the distant feudal society. The so-called upper class enjoy the convenience and achievements brought by advanced technology. This is the fact stated in the film: Injustice! The source of injustice is not technology itself, but power, and what stands behind power. The film does not say it directly, nor is it the focus of the film. It just points the finger at technology, which screens, suppresses, and excludes human nature. Affects the orientation of the entire society's values. When the protagonist's family learns that their first child is defective, they will not treat him as a normal person in future family education, even if the family raises one. For lame pets, the most abundant nutrition for raising children is still love, not half-baked technology that steals future information!

Fear of the unknown, as it is now, and double in the future
All kinds of creatures in nature will not give up their right to survive. The protagonist of the film with sound limbs, strong will and great dreams, although he was deprived of the privilege of realizing his dreams from birth, he was labeled as violent, mentally ill, and unable to live beyond 30 years. The age-old genetic label, but this does not prevent dreams from taking root in that weak body. A flawed person who is defined by science as a lower-level grassroots, in a scientific world where there is no control of his own destiny, he wants to launch to the top of the pyramid of society. Charge, in the eyes of ordinary people, at least in the eyes of his younger brother, the genetically destined future is absolutely unchangeable! In fact, there are too many uncontrollable factors in genes. It can't control the outcome of a swimming competition, when love breaks out, it can't control a person without violent tendencies to become a murderer, and it can't control the courage to realize dreams. Settling down everywhere... Those inferior amino acid chains hidden in the genes are destined to have a 99% mortality rate. Can you imagine that the only way to defeat it is the 1% survival rate obtained through the accumulated exercise and learning in the process of the day after tomorrow?

Survival of the fittest, is that really true?
Discrimination, resource monopoly, information asymmetry, expansion of human desire... From the day human beings were born, these inferior codes have been injected into their genes, and they have been reproduced from generation to generation. With the awakening of these codes , grow and grow, the original excellent codes in genes such as persistence, bravery, diligence, and integrity are gradually assimilated, covered, and replaced. If one day, the really excellent genes are eliminated by the so-called science, it is not the sadness of science, but The highly poisonous fruit of human deformed evolution, loss of dreams, loss of motivation to struggle, loss of curiosity to explore the unknown, loss of imagination over knowledge, loss of self, loss of the light of humanity, is it really still human?

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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?