To start, Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. The movie belongs to the “biopunk” genre such that it previews a world which experiences the unintended consequences of a certain advancements in biotechnology. Moreover, it is interesting to note that the movie title is noticeably derived from the four bases in DNA, namely, guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T), and cytosine (C); thus, forming the name.
The film starts its depiction in “the not-too-distant future" when eugenics is popular and very advanced such that the conception of offspring is deliberately influenced through genetic manipulation, and this way of reproduction is so common that conception by “natural” means is uncommon and somewhat