#fade to ocean waves! incredible! and a bit strange bc of its association with the rivalry between vincent and his brother.

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notes about gattaca bc i'll literally never write it down if i dont make a public post about it i guess. forewarning these are not going to be coherent

1) surveillance state and all the paranoia involved in maintaining a working existence under it coupled very closely with

2) bioinformatics but not really as it's actually utilized in the real world, it remains as abstract as discussion and the unexplored unseen mystery of the Virtual Database located in chunky computers with low-res screens, the visceral elements of hair, spit, blood and urine (especially those last two) as well as visual indicators like hair dye and height (something to be said about the injury that disables eugene and renders him "unproductive" and the injuries vincent puts his body through to become "productive"/ assume the person of jerome both being intentional) are dramatized and drive the plot of

paranoia which loops back around to the first point

do appreciate the visceral usage bc i love a good fluid and i love how Much of it and how much discussion of it was in there especially with how sterile the aesthetics of the movie are but i do think it kind of contributes to how much it

fell short as a narrative surrounding eugenics. it simply does not understand it at all and made it vaguely inspiration porn-y??? it also has a very underwhelming inclusion of class but at least it's included. it's as that post said. mid movies will make you do all this i guess