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Your DNA is made of only four bases. Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. More commonly expressed as A, G, C, T.
Take those letters and play with them, and you get GATTACA.
In this 1997 film, Gattaca is a private space agency with regular launches which travel throughout the solar system. Paging Elon Musk...
The catch is that only genetically perfect, super-intelligent humans are allowed to be astronauts. The dystopian future society practices eugenics through gene editing. Designer babies are created in the lab. The parents choose which traits they want their child to have, up to and including the length and girth of a boy's penis. Woo hoo!
Some parents, though, decide to have babies the old-fashioned way, and those babies are discriminated against since we all have a certain percent chance of a heart attack at 50, or cancer, or male pattern baldness, or decreased intelligence.
One of these imperfect humans (Ethan Hawke) decides he is going to break all the rules and hires a crippled alcoholic superhuman (Jude Law) to provide him the necessary bodily fluids and skin and hair to deceive the relentless DNA spot checks at the space agency.
Such imposters are called de-GENE-erates.
It's a pretty good story, with not one, but two really good twists at the end.
Designer babies are probably just a matter of time.
Trivia: The two main characters, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, met each other in 1997 on the set of Gattaca. They married and had two kids. One of those kids is an actress and was/is on the Netflix series Stranger Things. Her name is Maya Ray Thurman Hawke. If you have any kids who watch that show, they'll know who I am talking about.
More Trivia: Will Lyman, the man with the golden throat who narrates Frontline episodes, is the narrator of the Gattaca trailer. His voice is unmistakable.
Take those letters and play with them, and you get GATTACA.
In this 1997 film, Gattaca is a private space agency with regular launches which travel throughout the solar system. Paging Elon Musk...
The catch is that only genetically perfect, super-intelligent humans are allowed to be astronauts. The dystopian future society practices eugenics through gene editing. Designer babies are created in the lab. The parents choose which traits they want their child to have, up to and including the length and girth of a boy's penis. Woo hoo!
Some parents, though, decide to have babies the old-fashioned way, and those babies are discriminated against since we all have a certain percent chance of a heart attack at 50, or cancer, or male pattern baldness, or decreased intelligence.
One of these imperfect humans (Ethan Hawke) decides he is going to break all the rules and hires a crippled alcoholic superhuman (Jude Law) to provide him the necessary bodily fluids and skin and hair to deceive the relentless DNA spot checks at the space agency.
Such imposters are called de-GENE-erates.
It's a pretty good story, with not one, but two really good twists at the end.
Designer babies are probably just a matter of time.
Trivia: The two main characters, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, met each other in 1997 on the set of Gattaca. They married and had two kids. One of those kids is an actress and was/is on the Netflix series Stranger Things. Her name is Maya Ray Thurman Hawke. If you have any kids who watch that show, they'll know who I am talking about.
More Trivia: Will Lyman, the man with the golden throat who narrates Frontline episodes, is the narrator of the Gattaca trailer. His voice is unmistakable.
