Review of Gattaca (1997) by Antti Q — 26 Aug 2010

You can fault me, if you like, for my lack of any interest in films which offer little other than the titillation of intuitive emotional and intellectual and aesthetic responses (and, yes, that includes Inception) instead of the cerebral, thought provoking media I now heavily slant my affection towards.

But films like Gattaca are interested in promoting discussion to enhance and redirect the course of technology and moral structure in society. If I seem strong to dislike movies that offer nothing other than emotional or intellectual or aesthetic indulgence, it's probably has something to do with Gattaca's existence (among other potent films and literature), that dream of a better world (or the prevention of a bad one), whose filmmakers care enough about their place in society to use their work for a purpose higher than their viewer's temporary and fleeting emotional satisfaction- even though they offer that too.