Post # 3 - Gattaca

Szilvia Rep
English 101-0768
Dr. Vasileiou
Blog #3 (First draft)
10-02-2012

A Dystopian life in a Utopian world

     I like to think about the world. Especially about human behaviors and societies. How we can or we can not leave with each other. The factors that influences who we will become. How the world will look like.

I recently watched a very thought-provoking movie, Gattaca which paints a picture about how the future could be; a life in an almost perfect dystopian world. At least that's how I think about it.

     The last century technology was advanced very rapidly. This has had certainly positive and negative effects on societies. We, humans want to "catch up" with that evolution as well. We want to be better in everything. We want to be taller, smarter, quicker then others. It's a constant competition. Take a look at the sport world. How the numbers in the world records had been changed. The desire to be the best pushing the sportsman to their limits. Another example is the competition in a professional world. They teach us from our childhood, how to think, how to make more money, to be better then others, to have a better life. Lately, it doesn't matter how you get there. Stepping through your fellow humans, restrain your feelings, lies!
That's how Gattaca starts. With a lie, an identification scam.

We don't know who is this man or why he's doing what he does, but we know it is wrong. Lies never work out in a long term. Lies have consequences. Is it necessary sometimes? Maybe you think it is, if your life depends on it?!

We will find out sooner or later.

The main character, Jerome arrives to his work place and he starts his regular day. The place is almost like a hospital. Everything is clean and looks perfect. Just like the humans working there. Perfection is the only acceptable option, we find out soon from a conversation.

     Later on we learn about the perfect control. People are being tested, watched and reported constantly. We have a very good example of this kind of world. Let's think about the Nazi Germany or the Communism, what followed later. If you obeyed them, they made you believe that, you are the chosen one who is capable of everything. But if you were different, less then the chosen race - for example the Aryan - or you had different opinion you were to be destroyed. Fear was controlling everything. We can see this in the following  character of Jerome. He desperately tries to belong to this perfect world and he makes it happen with constant lies, but what he really wants is to leave everything behind and find another, better, utopian place, what not controlled by fear. That's for him is the space. Which is very symbolic. Going up to the space is like going up to "Heaven"  where supposedly everyone who enters the gate is accepted, where everyone has a place, where happiness is granted.


Hello Stacy Ann! I'd like you to help me with your answer of the following.
What do you think, how the structure's of my writing is following my thesis about how is the world described in Gattaca?