Production Company: Columbia Pictures and Jersey Films
Release: October 24, 1997
How Long? 106 minutes
Rated PG-13
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Produced by Danny Devito, Michael Shamburg, Stacey Sher and Gail Lyon
Written by Andrew Niccol
Narrated by Ethan Hawke
Starring Ethan Hawke as Vincent Anton Freeman/Jerome Morrow and Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini
Budget: $36 million
BO: $12,532,777
BO Percentage of the Budget = 28.72%
RT Freshness: 82% Fresh
- Rating Average: 7.1/10
IMdB Score: 7.8/10
Just Before the Rewatch...
Yeah, I can't wait for this film. So excited for a rewatch to go back in time to sophmore year in high school, but this time the ending should be seen for the first time in my life... finally, after two years of waiting to let it happen!
SPOILERS AHEAD! DUH!
This is Jerome Morrow. The plot all starts in zooming out from falling fingernails to the bathroom futuristic-like. It was so melodramatic that it's like the lighting should give us a dark wintery opening if it weren't for just DNA stuff and it would have full of snow in the meadow at night. The music at the very beginning is so dramatic, swelling and so slow that I can feel the melody and harmony of what should look like for the stars in the galaxy. This is in "the not too-distant future". Gattaca - the workstation place was named after the film I was watching. I can understand the movie a bit more in depth to give us some back in the past references about the future. Back to the story, Jerome gets ready for the day - in the not too-distant future. He's got one week of work left, so he had the testing taken care of for himself. Jerome narrated of what his world is like and of his childhood, adolescence and beyond from conception until the time he changes his name to Jerome Morrow and back to where the movie started. In other words, it's like an average, unfortunate life as a kid in the 22nd century or better yet 2050. I do remember the feeling of going back in time in case of just wanting for more minutes of the movie.
But the music at the beginning of the narration feels like Rugrats, except it's less cartoony and bland, and more "wow!" and realistic like a labour of love from Star Trek. I had a cringing feeling that I need to get back to his past really badly to listen carefully to the birth results of what the probability of the diseases this person had. 60% of neuro. condition, 42% of manic depression, 66% obesity, 89% ADD and 99% of heart disorder. Life expectancy = 30.2 years. Whoa, that's even what it's more accurate than what I thought of in Cracking the Code of Life. I heard the cries this year more than once sophomore year. It's twice, one for the NOVA special, and the other for this actual re watch. The cries I heard as this time sound like two echoing hollow cries of screaming twins, pitching in my ears, giving me the chills literally in my mind; it distracted me from writing down the answers for the required assignment of biology. It's like doing my homework while the parents were not around; several rowdy little kids were running around the house, distracting like idiotic monkeys. While the parents Marie and Antonio give the baby's name Vincent Anton, I was like mentally saying, "What the heck is that sound that keeps screeching in my ears from jotting quietly in my inner Deaf mind! Just WHY?!" Is that the baby's breathing or is it something awful and mentally high-pitched annoying to the Deaf? (That escpecially includes talking.)
A couple of years later, in the daycare, Vincent fell chronically ill and the daycare sitter put him out of the way and back to his parents. He was my age when I had autism for the first time around in my lifetime. It's like myself, being diagnosed with autism for the first time at a birthday party in the park I recognized it almost last year, in last spring. It's way different from Grandin in the HBO film about her life for saving cows. The adults put me in special care, especially when it comes to the KinderingCenter, I mean the Kindie Gardening Center. Back to the plot, Marie's four eggs contain 2 healthy boys and 2 healthy girls. It's a 50/50 chance by gender, but what about the diseases he/she can carry. Antonio and Marie didn't care about the diseases, but instead, they ended up having Anton, a healthy boy. Flash forward eight years later, Anton was taller, stronger and faster than Vincent. It's like cheating on height that he would need to face reality instead of just wiping it off the yellow height chart. How bizarre these children are "left to play" in these days of Gattaca the workplace station, not the film (it took like a long time ago in the late 1990s). Things grew smart as Vincent learns of space and astronomy, like how Ellie Arroway did with stars, space, astronomy and radio waves in Contact. I had a careful, eye-catchy feeling that Vincent is going to be on the 14th moon of Saturn in the Titan.
Years later, Anton is not as strong as Vincent was, for the antonyms had just switched overtime while they swim. It's completely different, for Vincent moves out and fast forward few years later, he had a job as the janitor for the workplace station still called Gattaca. Until the middle finger was pricked invalidly, all of his tests are coming of age from preventing DNA from knowing it (changing names to Jerome Morrow) and up to where the film all started. Somebody was killed by suicide, investigators test who actually killed him. Then came the fancy late night whatnot and Anton being involved in alcohol and smoking while on a wheelchair?! How? Disabled people can't do it.
Investigators keep in further search to see who is the "accidental" unauthorized specimen just after the exercise scene. Irene showed Jerome the solar panels at sunrise; he removed the contact lenses earlier in the early dawn and quickly crossed the road after the waiting for about fifteen to thirty seconds. Then more fanciness until the investigators in hats and suits show up to search for Jerome who would become the unauthorized specimen. The relationship between Irene and Jerome had come of age as they make love overnight. The next morning, they get ready for the day. Later, the Director (not Jeb Batchelder of the School, neither Anne Walker and Roland ter Borcht, nor the Director of Itex as in Marian Jenssen, but the Director that looks like some Ben clone from Star Trek) and Irene visited Anton's house, but Anton was faked to be Jerome. Jerome was revealed to Irene that he was Vincent Anton Freeman (the unauthorized specimen by accident). The Director showed up to Jerome/Vincent; then Jerome committed fraud, the Director had prove on him. What? I didn't know where exactly did I left off from sophomore year. The Director and Vincent went for a swim.
They went far from the shore and the waves crashed the Director - Vincent saved the Director, now in coma. He got reunited together with Irene, but the next day - the scientist told Vincent that the unauthorized specimen was just (t); but the screen was switched to (8) as in Jerome Morrow. Yay, the mystery has solved. Jerome and the rest of the crew go on a rocket and blasted off in space. Meanwhile, Anton was burned to death in the incinerator showing honor and respect to the brother. The film all ends when we all reach for the stars, closing narration and dramatic music.
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