Gattaca optimistic Vs pesimistic
Is Gattaca an optimistic or pessimistic film? Discuss In viewing Gattaca, directed by Andrew Niccol, the audience bear witness to a new society where science has become the backbone of life and a new form of discrimination, genoism, is abundant. ... The film is ultimately optimistic, presenting Vincent to the viewer as triumphing over the oppressive system and leaving the audience with a sense of hope. The film presents a pessimistic future for us, however we are shown an optimistic representation of the present time in the film. In viewing Gattaca it is near impossible to overlook the numerous oppressive and discriminatory functioning’s of the society. ... This is represented through Vincent’s return to Gattaca as a navigator after leaving work there as a cleaner. ... In Gattaca Niccol has presented many of the characters as cold and institutionalized people. The masses of immaculately groomed, identically black suited men and women filing into Gattaca, sans any conversation or interaction with each other, create a sense that this ‘utopian’ society is a bleak look into the future. ... Being the resident DNA tester at Gattaca the full importance of his character is not revealed until near the end of the film. ... Gattaca presents a future society where values are distorted and people are merely their DNA. ... A key factor in viewing Gattaca as an optimistic film is the separation of the physical and mental makeup of people. ... In Gattaca this is demonstrated through the lives of genetically superior Eugene and invalid Vincent. ... This idea of the genetically inferior and therefore oppressed character beating those who were genetically engineered, and persevering undergoing even extreme measures of pain to obtain his goal is what makes Vincent’s success so gratifying and Gattaca an optimistic film. Gattaca is a film where the audience is presented with a future that is living with the consequences of genetics being the only acknowledged characteristic of people.