Gattaca (1997)

The first film to be showed in this blog is Gattaca. Released in october 24, 1997, Gattaca is a science fiction, romance and drama film which is about a sterile, genetically-enhanced world where babies are "designed" in order to avoid diseases and imperfections.
Vincent is the last natrually born baby in this society, and therefore, full of imperfections. He is born with a heart condition, and in consequence, he is only useful in menial jobs. However, Vincent has a dream: travel to space.
In order to do this, he asumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a genetically perfect man who's paraplegic as consequence of a car accident. Vincent manages to deceive DNA  and urine sample tests, but when he is finally scheduled to go to the space, the program director is murdered and the protagonist is one of the suspects. The police begins an investigation, probably threatening his secret.

Trivia

• The name "Gattaca" is composed of the letters used to label the nucleotide bases of DNA: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.
• As part of the marketing campaign for the movie, there were adverts for people to call and have their children genetically engineered. The worst part is that thousands of people actually called.
• Urma Thurman and Ethan Hawke (the two main characters) became couple during the filming and eventually married.
• The film's name was originally going to be "The Eighth Day" as reference to the Biblical creation story, which states that the earth was created in six days and on the seventh day, God rested.