What Ethicaland Other Issues Does Andrew Niccol Raise in ‘Gattaca’?

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'Gattaca' is a movie that is directed by Andrew Niccol and stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. It displays a futuristic world in which people are separated into two groups 'valid' and 'invalids'. The movie is mainly concerned with genetic engineering and as a result raises many ethical questions for the viewer to ponder. These ethical issues include discriminating people because of their genes, the social hierarchy that is formed through this selection process and raises the question of what does it mean to be human in this futuristic world. The movie delineates issues about genetic discrimination. People who had genetic modification are bullied because they are "unnatural". However those without genetic modification don't get access to good jobs. For example Vincent had a dream to go to space but in order to fulfil this dream, he has to get into Gattaca's elitist space programme. It would be easy if he were a valid. Only he wasn't. "How much [he] lied on [his] resume, [his] resume was on [his] cells". Not only will genetic modification lead to discrimination, it will also increase the gap between rich and poor. Gattaca outlines issues about class. In the future there might be a relationship between class and genetics. In modern history and in recent time people here believed that a persons genetics can say something about their characters and abilities. For example Jewish people have often been associated with money. This association was used by Hitler to justify killing Jews. In the movie Gattaca, they justified making people without modification a lower class. Even though discrimination on the grounds of genetics is illegal, "no one takes the law seriously". People with genetic modification have an advantage for everything. Success is "virtually guaranteed at birth". Now there is discrimination in modern society. So if the genetic modification become
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