Film Response

These are suggestions for you to think about:

Is Gattaca about biological race? If Can it be both about biological race and not about biological race?

How are the hierarchies organized in Gattaca? Are those biologically organized? Are those biological hierarchies racial hierarchies? Explain why/how…

You can also think about how ‘race’ (if you decide it is race) is also cultural (a hybrid of biology and culture.)

Imagine the 23rd century: how would a historian trace the episodes in Gattaca to earlier centuries?

Imagine the 23rd century: can you imagine an unthinkable for that moment?