What if science told you everything about yourself? In the movie "GATTACA" scientists take some of your DNA when you are born, to see when you die, and what you die from. GATTACA is a movie about extended science and your
DNA holding you back. In the movie your dreams do not matter. Its all about your
DNA and what your DNA is up for. In the movie the way you pick your spouse is by taking a hair of the person you pick and turning the hair into a place where they mark down the record of that persons DNA. In this movie DNA plays a huge roll on everyones life no matter what you do your DNA decides wether or not you are okay or in good health to do it.
Some advantages of living in the world of GATTACA are that you know when when you are going to die and people are keeping you safe when something involves your DNA. The advantage of knowing your own death is that people can be there with you to say goodbye and you know that they care for you and they always will. Usually you die when noone is around and nobody has time to say goodbye, but when you know your death you can have peole there to be with you while you go. The technology in GATTACA could probably tell you what your next move is.
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You would want your death to be something worth dying for and not something you already know is going to happen. In the movie people look at your DNA to see what job you can or cannot have, this is wrong because the job that you would want says that you cannot have that job because your DNA isnt eligible. People in the movie "GATTACA" tell what can or cannot do. They tell you something and do everything to make sure that they are okay and they have a job. The people in the movie don't care about dreams, as long as its your dreams that you care about. Dont let any one tell you what you can or cannot
“If you died, I would want to die too”(11). People also turn to death as a better option in this book, as if it is a way to get out of this horrible world. If the boy and the man were somehow split up or in danger, they feel as if there is no other choice but to end their own lives. “Don’t be afraid, he said. If they find you you are going to have to do it.
It is towards the end of the book does the audience gets Death’s thoughts saying, “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant”(Zusak,550). Death, the observer has seen the start and will see humanity's end.
In the United States 68% of the population fears death. The other 32% are just too tough to admit that they are scared(fear/phobia statistics).well that’s my opinion anyways. Lots of people are scared of death more than half of the percent of America. I myself can say that I fear death it is a scary thought to not know the unknown. I do not know how that 32% is not scared of death but in this essay I will be telling you about the fears of death.
Understandably, the inevitable idea of death is feared by many myself included, however that is exactly why it is important to realize that we need to appreciate every moment we go through, even the bad ones because without that, life would have no meaning to it. The biggest mistake one can make is thinking life has a monetary value. Amanda Ripley’s article What Is a Life Worth? Explains how the
One could simply avoid death or experience it and move on. Death is but a bad condition to the aliens. they see all of the other times people are fine. Billy writes in a letter explaining the creatures ”When a tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but the same person in fine in plenty of other moments”(27). People would be careless about death and would be shocked and sad the first time if unprepared or not expecting the moment but would quickly move on or go back to see the person some more, or save them as mentioned before.
Steve Jobs once said "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
Just as these lives die in the fall, so did Gatsby’s. Though as readers, we see deeper into Gatsby’s death. Not only did Gatsby literally die, but it’s almost as his single goal, his only dream, died too. “I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream,” (pg. 169).
Genetic analysis should be used freely in society, but only to help those who actually need it. The movie advocates the rules of your genetic makeup which leads to certain opportunities being presented to certain people with higher pedigrees than other. If a person's genetic makeup is sub-par you are unable to obtain your goals in life. While this is not true in the real world it could become a possibility in the future. The movie gives evidence of how your genetic makeup could affect who you love, what jobs you get, and expose you to certain discriminations in your life.
From the film, one can learn that death and dying affects not only
With all of the craziness going on in our world today whether it be politically (the ever unraveling Trump saga), socially (raging race or gender problems) or economically (money circulation to everyone or lack thereof), it would be quite easy for someone with a dream to feel discouraged, especially if they were on the “opposed” side of any of the above mentioned issues. But after reading about Jane Addams and W.E.B. Dubois, they prove that as long as you are consistent, passionate and conscientious you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to, regardless of your gender, color or political/economic stature. Jane Addams was a social worker, philosopher, activist and author born in 1860. She was a “white” woman who was passionate about
Death motivates us to live more freely and do something with our lives while we’re still here. This is what Sonny must have been feeling when he said that he felt trapped by his surrounding. He wanted to do something with his life, and he did not want to just sit around and let the hardships of life take it’s toll on him. Life is defined by activity and we all want our work to be finished before we rest. According to psychologist Ulrich Diehl, all forms of human suffering can be a challenge to the meaning of life, the personal conditions of suffering usually are a stronger challenge for life.
To dream is to desire an achievement which seems unobtainable. Most everyone has trouble convincing themselves that their dreams are within reach. Jim Carrey once said, “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.” This is a result of allowing dreams to remain dreams and, instead, opting to take a more reliable path. In doing so, a sense of emptiness that never completely dies out is often developed.
Dreaming is a huge part of people’s lives. Dreams happen to everybody and are different to everybody. They tell a lot about a person’s life. Dreams are viewed differently by so many people. People have opinions on what makes dreams happen, what dreams are, and what they mean.
Even people tried to touch their dreams and got through quite a lot problem in the process of effort, most of them will still get failures and fall down from the sky to the ground. However, it is important to hold fast to dreams and get experience from the process of chasing dreams. “Hold fast to dreams,for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.(Hughes, 8).” This piece of text shows us without chasing dreams, life will lose vitality and become colorless. Also, people will always feel regret if they have never try.
This is because I truly loved Death’s idiosyncratic comments and informative narration in the book. Even though the movie was very literally visual, I had an easier time imagining the book and understanding it. I really enjoyed reading Max’s books and didn’t have this pleasureful opportunity in the movie. I enjoyed the sensory details and Zusak’s writing style. Lasty, my opinion might be swayed by the fact that I read the book first, making it my image for ‘the right one’.