The Role Of Prejudice In Gattaca

It is unquestionable that all people deserve equal respect and appreciation for who they are. Any prejudice or discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability is not acceptable either.

Although this concept should be fundamentally rooted in our society, it is with regret to see that in some areas certain people still receive unfair treatment. Therefore, some movies and TV programs have been designed to raise people's awareness of the importance of accepting all people without prejudice.

One excellent example is a movie called ``Gattaca,'' which conveys the human capacity to do things with perseverance and will, even if one has physical disabilities.

On the surface, Gattaca portrays an imaginary future society in which people's physical traits are prenatally decided through gene manipulation.
However, Vincent consoles himself with the fact that he once saved his younger brother, who has perfect genes in his body.

He believes that one can do anything once he sets his mind to it, regardless of his genes. Although Vincent takes exams and does interviews to become an astronaut, he fails, and then runs away from home.

In the end, he finds himself as a cleaner at the world's most renowned aerospace engineering company, Gattaca.

With his dream so near, Vincent decides to go into a dangerous gamble of life; he finds someone who sells fake gene credentials and gets himself hooked up with a dominant gene possessor, Jerome Morrow. From then on, Vincent deserts his identity and goes through a rigorous and painful process of becoming Jerome.

However, the process is not easy and Vincent has to get various painful surgeries and even inject himself with Jerome's urine and blood in order to successfully hide his recessive gene. So strong was his wish, Vincent becomes an astronaut in the