Gattaca Opening Scene Analysis

Show how the opening scene introduced ideas that were concluded in final scene.

The movie Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccole, it a dystopian film a bout a man Called Vincent Freeman who is known to be a “God child” which in certain cases you would think to be a good thing but in this movie natural born children are considered the bottom of the heap. In this film discrimination exists not based on skin color, socio-economic class, culture or religion, but on whether or not you were genetically engineered to be perfect. Vincent has a lot of determination, drive, hard-working mentality, goals, and ambition and is much stronger, and better than the genetically altered person that he borrows DNA from called Jerome Eugene Morrow. His donor
We see Vincent in the shower scrubbing himself clean and trying to trace of every bit of dead skin possible which is the symbolical meaning of him trying to be ‘perfect’ and fit in with this society, while he burns the remainder of his own DNA in the caldron. He then goes to the science center and looks around. After Vincent's urine test he changes his contacts in the bathroom. The lighting is very blue almost like science lab and it is as if his whole life is under a microscope. We see extreme close ups of fingernails, dead skin, and hair etc., which confuses us at first but introduces the main idea around the film, Andrew Niccol is now introducing that things aren’t always what they appear to be, and that we don’t know the whole truth about DNA, genetic engineering and its harmful effects. We never see Vincents face front on, allthough sometimes is hidden by shadows and objects, he has to hide his identity and this symbolises the critisism from society. “Consider God’s handiwork. Who can straighten what he has made crooked?.” This is a traditional pro nature quote that comes on the screen right at the beginning opening scene of the movie. “I not only believe that we will tamper with mother nature but that mother wants us to.” This is also another quote that appears at the beginning on the film, this quote is more modern and pro science,
We later find out that humanity overides the doctor and he lets Vincents faults slide, there is a stong connection between these two which is closely connected towards the end of the film yet the recurring tests are done throughout. The doctor asks Vincent in the beginning of the film and then once again when he is entering the rocket to launch into space, “Have I ever told you about my son?” we gather in the end that his son also is a ‘gods child’ and is a very big fan of Vincent as he has managed to successfully follow his near-impossible dream of going to space even though he is a