I've seen this take before but the video essayist was very blunt about Vincent being a Jew allegory impersonating his way up through a racist goyim (WASP) system and his donor friend (forget his name) immolating himself as the only way a goy can repent of his sins of being not a Jew. It was brutal lol.
I still like Gattaca, although I find the alleged allegory to be troubling and difficult to refute.
edit: just read the IVF thread. What a nightmare lol. Good thing IVF is so ridiculously difficult
Our culture was captured not with guns or butter, but with the clever use of story telling. Through myth it was destroyed and through myth it will be reborn.
Video is worth the watch, but in a sentence, Ethan Hawke’s character in Gattaca represents not “the oppressed minority” but the murderous and parasitic “biological mimic”
Vincent wasn't 'saving anything' for the return trip, so I think the idea the movie was trying for was that he would be able to do the mission but wouldn't live to return whereas a non-degenerate would eventually make it back alive.
Of course reality is he's already past his life expectancy and he's putting the mission at great risk entirely for his own selfishness, but you're not supposed to think about that.
I've seen this take before but the video essayist was very blunt about Vincent being a Jew allegory impersonating his way up through a racist goyim (WASP) system and his donor friend (forget his name) immolating himself as the only way a goy can repent of his sins of being not a Jew. It was brutal lol.
I still like Gattaca, although I find the alleged allegory to be troubling and difficult to refute.
edit: just read the IVF thread. What a nightmare lol. Good thing IVF is so ridiculously difficult
Probably this one by (the genius) Wyatt Stagg:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E93ZWqUgc-k
Both great, thanks for reminding me of that one actually, valuable addition to the thread
Yeah, that's the one. I like this comment
Man’s a poet. Another one that’s stuck with me, and of a similar vein:
https://communities.win/c/Manna/p/1ARJhinhYv/if-we-are-dying-it-is-because-we/c
Video is worth the watch, but in a sentence, Ethan Hawke’s character in Gattaca represents not “the oppressed minority” but the murderous and parasitic “biological mimic”
I've always wondered why there wasn't a sequel. 5 minutes long where vincent has a heart attack upon entering orbit and the mission is a failure.
Vincent wasn't 'saving anything' for the return trip, so I think the idea the movie was trying for was that he would be able to do the mission but wouldn't live to return whereas a non-degenerate would eventually make it back alive.
Of course reality is he's already past his life expectancy and he's putting the mission at great risk entirely for his own selfishness, but you're not supposed to think about that.