Reflection on Gattaca

          I really enjoyed this movie.  I thought that it was really interesting how everyone was chemically made to be immune to diseases, live long lives, and have overall good bodies physically.  Also, scientists were able to get rid of traits such as attention deficit disorders and anger management problems.  However, I thought it was really unfair that people who didn't have great genes were not allowed to do things like fly into space, but that others who were genetically modified could take good jobs just by giving in a urine sample.  Even if someone had a really good brain, they would not be permitted to do the really important stuff.  If you had not been made in a test tube, then you were not expected to be great physically, either.  No matter how hard you trained, everyone would expect you to lose in sports because of your genes.  I also thought that it was really interesting that scientists were able to figure out one person's whole life at birth.  The main character was told that he had a 99% chance of heart problems, an expected life span of 30.2 years, and many other things the second after he was born.  From then on, people could tell everything about you just by taking a urine, hair, blood, or skin sample from your body.  This whole idea of genetics and DNA was very, very interesting and overall, I enjoyed the movie.  Even though it's fictional, I learned a lot about how DNA is almost everything about you from the film.