Gattaca (1997)
Writer/director Andrew Niccol made his début with this biopunk sci-fi film staring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law. In a world where the quality of your DNA dictates what you can do a young man with weak DNA fraudulently seeks to follow his dream to go to space.
Like the best sci-fi this is a thoughtful piece on the potential future of the human race and what will happen if and when we gain the ability to manipulate our own genes. Not only does the film raise some interesting questions it also contains some compelling characters and is told in a really excellent way. About the only weak elements of this film are some of the cinematography does not seem great given the large budget for the film however this is still an excellent piece of story telling and well worth watching.
5/5
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