‘Gattaca’ is back, the futuristic tale in which genetics determines lives
It was 1997, and science fiction was still hungover for the dark and rainy futures that characterized cyberpunk, with films like Blade runner setting a melancholic tone that many other filmmakers wanted to replicate with greater or lesser fortune, skill and financial resources. GattacaInstead, it was aligned with other types of dystopias where moral shadows did not have to be accompanied by dark images but could be perfectly illuminated. We were told a futuristic tale of exclusions from birth, where genetics determines lives, without gloomy or totalitarianism maintained through physical violence.