movie review - Gattica
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 1999.03.10
I have trouble taking Ethan Hawke seriously, which detracted from what was otherwise a nice little sci-fi story. His character is a capable, determined 'God-child'; a human born of procreation as we know it (e.g. sex and pregnancy). He lives in a future world where genetic doctoring has been brought to a high art, one so routine that naturally-occurring humans such as him are little more than the unwanted underclass of society. The movie hits home (in true American fashion) that genetism has replaced all former -isms (again, one of the closing shots shows that the ranks of superpeople include all {f
Recommended.