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Page 1: Gattaca
Page 2: Gattaca

1. What does the title make reference to?

2. What is the difference between Vincent and Anton´s conception? Explain.

3. Explain the following phrases:

a) “It didn´t matter how much i lied on my resume. My real resume was in my cells.”

b) “The underclass wasn´t determined by social status or skin color now. No, now we have discrimiation down to a science.”

c) “No matter how much i studied...the best test score in the world needs a blood test to match it.”

d) “For the genetically superior, success is easier to attain, but not guaranteed. After all, there is no gene for fate.”

e) “They don´t care where you were born. Blood has no nacionality. As long as they got what they want, it´s the only passport you need.”

f) “Eugene had never been called “utero”, “faith birth”, “In-valid”. A “valid” he suffered under a different burden: The burden of perfection.”

4. How did Vincent become in Jerome?

5. What precautions did Vincent have to make when he was in Gattaca?

6. What was “Valid” or “In-Valid”?

7. What does “99% probability of heart condition” mean?

8. What do you think about this new way of classificating people?

9. Research about the “Human Genome Project”.

a) What is it?

b) What is the objective?

10. Do you think that was the movie shows is far away from reality?