Sunday, 15 April 2012

Gattaca: Who's real?

Right away I noticed that in a way the movie Gattaca, and the book House of the Scorpions are almost opposite, but in other ways, they are similar. In the world of Gattaca you must be genetically modified to be considered "desirable". While as in HoS you must be "natural" to be considered desirable. Vincent and Matt took two similar paths. Neither of them was openly able to brandish their identity. Even through Matt and Vincent were not able to show their true selves, they both tried their harder to exceed all expectations. Matt tried his best in school and showed his knowledge to everyone in the big house. Vincent showed his amazing skills in swimming and proved to everyone that he was equal to them, even if they didn't know his true identity. These two opposites proved to everyone around them that they are just as able as modified people in Vincent's case, or "natural people" in Matts case. These two people are in ways complete opposites, but in other ways, they can completely relate to each other. They are both standouts, but they prove that they are just as worthy as anyone else in the book/movie. The two completely opposite circumstances that these are placed in are so strangely similar. I think that if Matt and Vincent met in real life they would grow to be quite close, just because their experiences of being outcasts, but proving to everyone they can be just as worthy, and be who they want to be, natural, or altered. I believe that in the future of Gattaca, Vincent will always be known as Jerome. I'm not quite sure what would happen to Matt though. Because he is in a way a "mini" El Patrón, so I'm not sure if he will become like the "old" El Patrón or not. I don't think that Matt will change as a person, so I think in the future of both the movie Gattaca, and House of the Scorpion I think that Matt and Vincent's personalities will stay the same as they were during the book and/or movie. I think that towards the end both Matt and Vincent might change the world; because Vincent was one of the first men to travel to Saturn's moon Titan, while Matt took control of a drug country, and can do with it what he wants, giving them both the power to alter the world, in these two separate, but amazingly powerful stories. 

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