Eeyore~Little Me
Sunday, February 05, 2006
haiz.. it is already 11 plus le.. and i am still not doing anything successfully.. i haven finish a lot of things lah.. den now studying abt probabilty.. it is a stupid chapter lorx.. i practically dun understand n dunno a single thing abt it.. argh!!! so pissed off right at the moment.. tml gt 2 tests.. it is lyk every week we are having more than a test.. haiz.. i really dun lyk sec 3!!! how i wish time will go back.. i still gt my zhou ji haven finish.. den still gt SS to study.. how can i finish them by tonight?? i really dun need to sleep le lah.. and i am getting sleepy.. somemore SS so difficult.. we gt 3 source based n 1 structured questions for tml test.. u think can finish???? den the teacher still say can get full marks.. er.. well it is definitely impossible for mi.. ok.. now lets get into the topic.. i came to blog abt the movie we seen last week n last last week.. we even had a debate abt a worx..
GATTACA
erm.. well.. we watched finish this movie quite long ago.. at least for mi.. i think i sort of forget the story a little.. so bear with mi if i distort the story a little.. sry.. =X it is abt a boy call vincent who has a genetic problems.. he has heart diseases and has a life span of abt 30.. then his parents wanted him to have a companion and they had another child call anton.. anton is better than vincent in everything.. this make vincent very unhappy.. he had a strong liking to go into space.. but he could not due to his heart problems.. even when he wanted to get a job, ppl look at his health report and rejected him.. this makes him even more determined to strive for his ambition.. his family esp his father is also very biased towards his brother, anton.. thus, he changed his identity to someone called jerome.. jerome was an outstanding swimmer but he gt crippled due to an accident which he created himself.. he was willing to give his identity to vincent for money and to fulfill vincent's dream to go up into space.. so vincent created a fake accident to show tt he is dead and gradually became "jerome".. so, he go to work at gattaca, which is a place tt train ppl to go up to the space.. i think so.. then he had to take the real jerome's urine sample n blood for everytimes test.. he even had to scrape off his hairs to prevent them from dropping.. he successfully pass through all the obstacles and gt chosen to go up into space.. however, there were times tt he nearly gt caught due to a murder case.. there were many surprise checks.. his brother anton is also a policeman who is checking on the murder case and he found out tt his brother was not dead! he tried to arrest him but to no avail.. finally vincent managed to fulfill his ambition which is to go up to space.. but for jerome, he killed himself but burning himself up.. ='(
this is a sad story.. when i firstly watches this movie in sec 1, i dun really understand fully wad it means.. but now i think i understand abt it.. erm.. this movie is filmed to discourage the Human Genome Project.. it shows abt the disadvantages of HGP.. this is because if we can genetic engineered someone, it would cause a lot of problems lyk discrimination.. DISCRIMINATION is a very big problem.. for example, in the story of gattaca, it shows tt u will need to be very healthy, without any health problems, then u can be recruited into a company.. vincent had heart problems and many companies dun wan to hire him because of tt.. some even just look at his health report and rejected him.. no one gave him a chance.. he could only do some lowly jobs.. furthermore, even his family discriminate him.. his father put more hope on anton, his brother, and does not really care for him.. they even compare him with anton.. which makes vincent very very upset.. he lose out to his brother in everything.. he swim slowly and is shorter than him.. in the society, ppl also look at him from a different perspective.. when he was young, the insurance company did not even want to give vincent the insurance.. they knew tt vincent was going to die in anytime.. thus they din wan to insure him.. this is very unfair to him..
the movie also shows tt if genetic engineering was made possible, the world will become very scary.. people could change their identity if they wan.. just lyk vincent.. the police din really find out the real truth in the end.. if we could change identity, ppl would not be able to noe the real you.. coz there maybe hundreds of similar you in the streets walking ard.. who will really noe even if u commit a crime?
however, i am for the HGP.. i think tt if this is made possible, cancer patients may be cured.. this is because scienctist maybe able to take away the cancer sequence at birth if they find by eliminating the DNA sequence.. in this way, cancer patients wld not have to suffer anymore.. it will be really gd if this discovery is not abuse by mankind.. however, we cannot under estimate the thoughts and capablity of mankind.. u will not be able to imagine wad a man can do.. there will surely be discrimination.. it will definitely continue to exist.. just tt is is little or a lot.. crime rates will also increase.. so is this beneficial to mankind?
seriously, i do not noe myself.. it is so contridicting.. everything has their pros and cons.. the HGP of course has too.. so it is really up to yourself to be on which side.. however, i really like the movie gattaca.. it is really a nice story but the ending is quite sad.. i think tt it is very noble of jerome to be able to give up his identity to vincent.. lyk wad mr tan said.. he gave his identity for vincent partially is only because of money but most importatly is because he thinks tt vincent can help him fulfill his dreams too..
hope tt we will be able to watch more movies lyk this in the future.. hee.. =)
jiemin
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