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***The eugenics-obsessed future in 40s/50s noir*** Several decades in the future liberal eugenics is normal and discrimination is practiced to distinguish "valids" from "in-valids," the latter conceived by natural means and therefore more susceptible to genetic defects. Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is an in-valid who assumes the identity of a disabled valid (Jude Law) in order to fulfill his dream of space travel. Uma Thurman and Gore Vidal are also on hand. "Gattaca" (1997) is a sci-fi drama “tech noir,” which combines futuristic science-fiction with 40s/50s noir. It’s not just the suits & hats, the cars look like 50s/60s coupes, but whine because they’re electric. It’s similar in this respect to “Dark City” (1998), but more dramatic. Imagine if “Dick Tracy” (1990) was a somber space-age sci-fi and you’d have a pretty good idea. The film flopped at the box office while critics generally praised it. It plays better if you have an interest in eugenics and the philosophies thereof. For me, it’s decent, but too low-key. I prefer “Dark City” if I’m going to watch a film of this sort. The movie runs 1 hour, 46 minutes, and was shot in Southern Cal: Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael; Otis College of Art and Design; CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; the spillway of the Sepulveda Dam; outside The Forum in Inglewood; and Kramer Junction Solar Electric Generating Station. GRADE: B-
Simply put, Gattaca is one of the greatest movies ever made. Some might think that's going too far but it truly is a masterpiece. Everything from the casting, set design, cinematography, writing and the Universe in which the story takes place. It is not only a great source of entertainment but an inspiring work of art. By far the most poetic movie I have had the pleasure of watching. Every line is elegiac and truly beautiful. It's the type of movie that keeps you thinking days after the credits have rolled. Not because it is fast-paced, intense or has a crazy twist ending but for its tranquil philosophical ideas. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a jaw-dropping movie night. It should be on every cinephile's list of must-watch.
_Gattaca_ leads you to believe it's about the social consequences of genetically engineering people. It starts out with a couple of quotes about the wisdom of mucking around with Mother Nature, and it, originally, ends with a list of genetically "defective" people, like JFK and Einstein, who might never have been born in the world _Gattaca_ depicts. But, I'm not sure genetic engineering is really what this movie is about. For one thing, Gattaca shows us that it's not really about the future. The world it presents doesn't even try to look like it. It looks like the '60s, seen through a nice golden filter. And, just as clearly, the problems its hero, Vincent, has, seem a lot like the problems most of us have. They're just a little more extreme. In _Gattaca,_ society has profiling down pat. Résumés, educational records, credit ratings, consumer profiles, psychological measurements, demographics, and statistical analysis haven't got anything on the latest rage in categorizing people. _Gattaca_ has genetic profiling, and it's all of those things wrapped up into one. Have problems getting a loan, some insurance, or a job? Well, Vincent does too. Vincent, you see, was conceived without the aid of genetic technicians. It's unfortunate, but it happens. Everyone already knows who he is and what he can, and can't, do. It's in his genetic profile. You don't question things like that, unless you're Vincent. It's just how things are. And that's never wrong. But, in this case, it certainly seems wrong. Like most of the superficial distinctions we make between people, the ones we make in _Gattaca_ hurt more of us than just the folks who end up with the less flattering distinction. Vincent's roommate, for instance, is genetically perfect, but he's been, literally, crippled by his profile. Not even someone as flawless as him, it seems, can live up to the expectations of his category. And Vincent, as you might expect, can't live his down. Vincent and his roommate are separated by a set of spiral stairs in their home. The stairs might remind you of the helical structure of a DNA strand, except, if you look closely, you might also notice that the spiral is backwards. Not only does it spin in the wrong direction, but Vincent lives at the top of the stairs and Jerome, the one with a great profile and a miserable life, lives at the bottom. It turns out that the real difference between Vincent and Jerome isn't their profiles. The real difference is that Vincent decided, one day, that he wasn't going to pay attention to his profile anymore. But, Jerome, like most of the people in _Gattaca,_ can't. No one notices that the photograph that shows up whenever Vincent's blood is tested isn't Vincent's, because no one even looks at Vincent. It's his profile that matters. And Vincent's girlfriend gets so confused when she discovers that Vincent's profile doesn't belong to him that she thinks she doesn't know him anymore. Vincent was still Vincent, of course, only his category had changed. Late in the movie, Vincent's girlfriend takes him to a piano concert. The performer plays very well, and his girlfriend tells him that this is because the pianist has twelve fingers. The composition, she says, can only be played by someone like that. But the piece he played sounded a lot like a piece composed, and originally performed, by Franz Schubert. Just like most of us, Schubert only had ten fingers. And just like everyone, Shubert had a background. He couldn't get work as even a choirmaster, because his parents were tradesmen. Everyone knew, at the time, that one of the best composers of the 19th century couldn't be a musician. It just wasn't in his profile.
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".