Gattaca Biology Connection
GATTACA Movie Summary By: Justin Jacobi
The movie is based around the character Vincent Freeman. He is born an invalid, which is a normal birth in today’s standards. Most of the world’s population is valids who are born with the best traits and genes from their parents to basically make a perfect human. He has big dreams to travel into space and study it. Since he is born an invalid he is set for jobs that take basically no talent. He will do anything to achieve his dream. He enlists the help from a shady business man to help him succeed. Soon Vincent meets Jerome Morrow. Jerome is the perfect human. Except he is crippled from a car accident earlier in his life. Soon Vincent takes over Jerome’s identity using Jerome’s urine samples and blood packs to pass DNA tests. All is going as planned when the flight director of the space program is murdered a week before launch and the police investigate it possibly putting Vincent in jeopardy. Vincent goes through many hardships to finally being cleared from being the murderer, but the lead investigator is his brother, Anton, who recognizes his brother from samples found at crime scenes and he confronts him. Anton threatens to turn Vincent in for identity fraud but then they both agree to have a swimming competition. Anton always beat Vincent when they were younger, but this time Vincent wins and saves Anton. Now it is time for the shuttle to leave and Vincent is asked to give a urine DNA sample before he boards the craft. He doesn’t have a fake sample on him so he gives his “invalid” sample. He fails, but the doctor, who gave him all of the DNA test earlier in the movie, lets him pass anyway because his son is also handicapped. The movie then ends with Jerome killing himself and Vincent making it to space. This movie relates to what we learned in class in one main way. The whole movie is about DNA sequences. In class we learned about DNA and what it is. Also the movie title “GATTACA” is made up
The movie is based around the character Vincent Freeman. He is born an invalid, which is a normal birth in today’s standards. Most of the world’s population is valids who are born with the best traits and genes from their parents to basically make a perfect human. He has big dreams to travel into space and study it. Since he is born an invalid he is set for jobs that take basically no talent. He will do anything to achieve his dream. He enlists the help from a shady business man to help him succeed. Soon Vincent meets Jerome Morrow. Jerome is the perfect human. Except he is crippled from a car accident earlier in his life. Soon Vincent takes over Jerome’s identity using Jerome’s urine samples and blood packs to pass DNA tests. All is going as planned when the flight director of the space program is murdered a week before launch and the police investigate it possibly putting Vincent in jeopardy. Vincent goes through many hardships to finally being cleared from being the murderer, but the lead investigator is his brother, Anton, who recognizes his brother from samples found at crime scenes and he confronts him. Anton threatens to turn Vincent in for identity fraud but then they both agree to have a swimming competition. Anton always beat Vincent when they were younger, but this time Vincent wins and saves Anton. Now it is time for the shuttle to leave and Vincent is asked to give a urine DNA sample before he boards the craft. He doesn’t have a fake sample on him so he gives his “invalid” sample. He fails, but the doctor, who gave him all of the DNA test earlier in the movie, lets him pass anyway because his son is also handicapped. The movie then ends with Jerome killing himself and Vincent making it to space. This movie relates to what we learned in class in one main way. The whole movie is about DNA sequences. In class we learned about DNA and what it is. Also the movie title “GATTACA” is made up