Gattaca: Film Analysis project

Gattaca Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/plotsummary

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/quotes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gattaca/

http://www.mediaknowall.com/Scifi/gattacanotes.html


Essential Questions:

What is Eugenics?
What is a Caste System?
Is life ruled by Fate [Determinism] or do people have Free Will?



World Beater Hall of Fame

HOMER Blind from birth

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Epileptic

COLETTE Arthritic

LOU GERHIG Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gerhig's Disease)

RITA HAYWORTH Alzheimer's Disease

HELEN KELLER Blind and deaf

STEPHEN HAWKING Lou Gerhig's Disease

JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE Asthmatic

CHARLES DARWIN Chronic invalid