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Gattaca Summary Gattaca follows the life of a young man named Vincent Anton Freeman. He is the first born son and a “God- Child.” This means that he was not genetically developed and all of his traits were left up to chance. His father was disappointed with the high risks of Vincent’s lifestyle. As a child, every scrape and fall that Vincent had or did was taken very seriously and were overdone. The second son is Anton Freeman. Anton was born the “proper way.” His DNA was modified during fertilization. His father was very happy with Anton. As children, Anton and Vincent play “Chicken.” A game where two brothers would swim as far as they could until one chickened out. Anton always won. Finally, he won the swim one day and had to save his brother from drowning. Vincent tired of his life and went into major training after a game of chicken where he bet Anton. He changed his lifestyle and built up his stamina and body. Afterwards, he left home. Vincent had always been enchanted with the study of space and it was his dream to go up one day. After leaving home, he traveled the world, working meager- paying jobs as a custodian. After getting tired of his lifestyle, he started training his body into shape again. Even with his effecters, he never reached the ‘acceptable’ state. So he finds a man in a newspaper ad to turn him into a ‘borrowed ladder’. Borrowed ladders ‘rent’ out another person’s body/ identity. Vincent borrows Jerome Barlow DNA. Jerome was a swimmer that made a failed suicide attempt that makes him lose the ability to use his legs. Vincent uses Jerome’s blood and body to apply at Gattaca as an astronaut as a title of ‘valid’ instead of being a custodian with the title ‘in-valid’ at the space center. A few years later, Jerome is accepted into the space mission of traveling to Jupiter’s moon which is only possible every 10 years. However conflict builds

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