Gattaca – Visual Language

Andrew Niccol uses a variety of ideas to help portray the struggle of the near modern future, and how by progressing with the biological enhancements on humankind will intern devastate society. To help show this he uses Visual Language to demonstrate, For example, the bold buildings shown show little variety and are all very similar, this is relating to there being no major differences in not only the buildings but the people too. In a society filled with the perfect human, with the same desired traits nothing would change. There would be no difference in capabilities and thought processes making the world very dull and cold. You can see this at the very start and all the way through the movie, that is everyone wears the same suit the same shoes even having the same hairstyle. For at the start of the play Vincent was a nobody an outcast to society, his non-existent traits were not wanted and so was abandoned only left to clean up after those who bested him, but with imperfections came dreams and desires to strive and succeed, and that is exactly what he had a dream to show others that just because he did not have the perfect biological traits didn’t mean he couldn’t do what they could. But with perfections also come expectations and requirements you have to meet, unfortunately for Eugene the expectations he was required to meet where unattained and as a result sent him to attempted suicide leaving him crippled. for this, you may have the perfect genetics but nothing can change your mindset. And in a perfect society, there were still mishaps there was vincent and Eugene the two completely different people but also the same. Andrew Niccol used these two as messengers that although diffrent they worked perfetly together, with Eugene giving vicent