Brain Fart

[tealin]

Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!

I AM BRILLIANT!

The title of the movie Gattaca (which is basically about genetically modified superhumans and what it's like not to be one) is – get this, get this – is made up entirely out of the four letters which stand for the four kinds of molecules that make up the genetic code! ACGT!

(I'm sure thousands of people know this already but ... COOOOL!)

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[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Well, I feel really dumb that I didn't figure that out myself! (we can all feel dumb together!) Oh well. What did you think of the movie itself? SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO SEE THE MOVIE STOP NOW...OK, I thought ther were some really cool ideas (the central one being that an "imperfect" person could still succeed because they'd have to work that much harder, and get stronger), and some effective scenes (like when he's running around with no glasses, or the swimming competition, or the very end when you think he's gonna be outed), and this is obviously a timely topic, but I found the movie, overall, to be rather bleak and it left me pretty cold, because even though Ethan Hawke wins, and you admire his guts and determination, he didn't come off as particularly "human" to me. Like he pretty much knows that the guy who's identity he's stolen is going to commit suicide, but he doesn't try to talk him out of it or anything. And he and everybody else talks about the guy at work who got killed, and he doesn't really care who did it, or that it happened at all...if this is the future, it's pretty dspressing. And maybe that was the whole point. Sci-fi is usually difficult to inject with much warmth or humanity - it tends to get so cerebral. Am I being unfair to this film? Aside from the clever title, what did you guys think?