Gattaca is…


Cyberpunk done right. Done with class and depth. Gattaca manages to encapsulate a sense of pride, dignity and the apogee of human potential through and architectural and cultural lens, which quietly nods to a Neo Noir Roma.

You have to admire the unique style
Of the film’s production sets and filters. It’s an understatedly elegant aesthetic that lies in stark contrast to the dirty, consumerist shit-holes of the usual cyberpunk.

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A really underrated movie.

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And it’s incorrectly labeled a dystopia…when it really isn’t.

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Gattaca is an exceptionally pristine and beautiful film. I think that the film's aesthetic and distinct look is only bolstered by the sublime work of Michael Nyman, and although many people are impartial to the sepia filter, I find it enhances the film's mood.

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Agree. It’s what our society could have looked like.

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You can have my blu-ray, then. Bought it to refresh my memory and it turned out to be nothing special, should have trusted my first impression from the 90's. The guy even got the girl in the end, if my memory serves. The Truman Show from the same writer/director is a masterpiece, so I gave this one a second chance. Maybe The Truman Show director Peter Weir should be thanked for it being so great, who knows...

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To each his own I guess. He does get her…but it’s implied that he dies in space.

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I mean... isn't "dirty consumerist shithole" basically the very definition of cyberpunk? You know, "lowlife and high-tech" and all that jazz?

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Perhaps there can be another form of Cyberpunk? That hasn’t been explored well enough.

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