While watching the movie GATTACA and comparing it to a utopian society, this movie has certain characteristics that leads us to believe that it is a utopian society such as the parents getting to create their own kids by choosing the characteristics, life expectancy and to make sure their kids have no sicknesses while they grow up or later on in life. Only those people that have a certain DNA in their bodies which is the so called "perfect" DNA are allowed in a certain society where the jobs and work environment are much better than the outcasts where their DNA was not made up and left to fate. This being said, things still can go wrong in the movie's form of utopian society which will cause it not to be a perfect society. A quote from the movie that the main character said that relates to a utopian society is, "we have discrimination down to a science." This quote is significant in the way that it represents an element of everything being perfect and discriminating those who are not perfect, relating to the element of a utopian society.
http://youtu.be/ZppWok6SX88In what way does GATTACA represent the elements of a dystopian society?
This movie also relates to a dystopian society by not having any rights for all the people in the movie and not just the "perfect" people. The invalids in this movie don't have any rights in deciding what they want to do with their life as they cannot work for the higher end jobs. However, there is no freedom either for the "perfect" people as they have their life plan given to them by there parents from birth and they have no say in what they want to do. The hopes that the society had in reaching a utopian society went terribly wrong and became a dystopian society where everyone now has no control in what the want to become or who they are. Many things that are now engineered and modified in the movie, should be left naturally and let the world run its path.
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