Gattaca Imperfection under Perfection
Is it Gattaca the perfect place where
everybody dream to live or is it just an imperfect nightmare place of living? According
to the Film “Gattaca” by Andrew Niccol,
in this not-too-distant future, the mechanisms and the technological advantages
are improvements supposed to make a perfect world with happiness and joy. A
place where exists genetic engineered, no diseases or illness, environmental
advantages and no distinctions nor discrimination because of race, gender,
nationality. A place where everybody would like to live, It’s still the most
awful place of living, because there is not matter of effort or attainment,
it’s just a matter of genes. The film is about Vincent, the main character that
was born as a natural or traditional birth, which means no genetic engineered.
At the time that he was born, the doctors diagnosed him several sickness just
because he was born naturally. He always dreamed to fly out-space but his genes
were the principal obstacle to reach his goals. There was no possibilities for
him to achieve his dreams, just because his blood. So with this said, can we
really talk about Gattaca as a Utopia
place? I would say definitively NO. Gattaca
is not the place that the society dreams to live. I would not like a place like
this because though there is not discrimination for external factors, there is
discrimination because of genes. Therefore, I believe that Gattaca is the imperfect place under this umbrella of perfection,
convincingly a Dystopia.
The genetic
engineered was always the problem with Gattaca, there were people with this
kind of technology and at the same time there were people with no genetic
engineered at all. So this means that within Gattaca there was a lot of discrimination because of genes. People
with this technology were called “the Valids” for the society; people without
it were called “the Invalids”, so this is telling us that there was inequity in
Gattaca. Genes were all the matter if you wanted to grow up in a perfect world,
or if you just had it to live the imperfection with the “valids” scraps. So
that’s why I think that Gattaca is a
Dystopia. For example, the film tells us specifically about “Gattaca the space agency” that only the
people with a higher DNA would be able to work within it, but for the rest of
the people (the “invalids”) they just could work inside Gattaca as cleaners as the movie is telling us “My father was
right. It didn't matter how much I lied
on my résumé, my real C.V. was in my cells.
Why should anybody invest all that money to train me, when there are a
thousand other applicants with a far cleaner profile? Of course, it's illegal to discriminate
–“Genoism" it's called - but no one takes the laws seriously.” development
in technology made easy identification “If you refuse to disclose, they can
always take a sample from a doorhandle... or a handshake… even the saliva of
your application form. But for the most part we know who we are. And if all
else fails, a legal drug test can just as easily become an illegal peek at your
future in the company.” Thus it’s very unfair that genes would speak for your
physical and intellectual capacities. I believe that what matters like in our
actual society is the effort and sacrifice that you do every day to reach your
dreams and I believe that is the way how it has to be.
So
everybody would love to be in a Utopia society, with no discriminations, the
technologies to have perfect humans, nor crime, equality, perfect laws and
environmental advantages which happened in Gattaca
but not for everybody. We can see that when the Director of the space
agency, murdered brutally a man with a keyboard; his DNA profile indicates that
violence is not in his nature. So at the time that the coops find the body they
would not have to argue with the director because of his genes, which means
that actually this guy believed and had the intentions to kill an innocent man,
just because of his interests. In a Utopia place this will never happen,
because it is supposed to be perfect and equal for the whole population. Crimes
would not exist, no robberies, no murders, and no lies. But this happened in Gattaca which was supposed to be the
perfect place, but it wasn’t.
Also the
movie tells about Irene that was genetic engineer but she still had heart
problems, which means that this technology wasn’t perfect at all. It was
supposed to eradicate diseases or illness the genetic engineered and this doesn’t
occur with Irene. She has the dream, like Vincent, to fly out-space. But they
were unable to do it because of his physicals and mentally conditions. I
believe that in a Utopia, everybody would have the same rights and
opportunities to do whatever they want with no matter of race, gender,
nationality or genes. Also If Gattaca
was perfect, Jerome, a genetic engineered swimmer guy who had a high DNA, and
Vincent, the guy who wasn’t genetic engineered, why did they try to commit a suicide
because of their problems? The answer may be that Gattaca was a miserable place where the people were totally
unhappy.
Throughout Gattaca we can see a lot of dysfunctions
and imperfections that lead us to think in the actual world that we live but
with more technologies and less people suffering, still not a Utopia because it
doesn’t work for the totality. Overall I believe that perfection doesn’t exist
in reality, just in science fiction. Still science fiction would have to make
struggling lives, just to make it more interest. Utopia places will not exist
in this world and that’s how life is so fascinating. No society and nobody are
perfect, and that’s really cool because we can enjoy the variety of our world.
I can imagine a place that is perfect in its totality; it will be a horrible
place to live, without the knowledge of imperfection and the effort while you
get problems in your life.
In
conclusion I can say that Gattaca is
a Dystopia because if it were a Utopia, it will be equally the same for the
hole. All the situations created a Dystopia place, no a Utopia. I believe that
in the struggle of our lives we will find imperfection under perfection, still
the most amazing place to live, because it gives you hope and ambition to set
your goals and reach them. Like Vincent did on the movie Gattaca, where he
fought for overcoming all his obstacles to obtained his dreams, no matter what.
That has showed and helped me to understand that life is really hard,
perfection is impossible but still the Dystopia place where I live today it’s
the most perfect place while it is imperfect.
