In 1997,
maybe the movie Gattaca could seem strange, or just Sci-Fi, or not real, but
now, in the after-postmodern times, it seems more and more real.
In the beginning
of the picture, the couple that wants to have a child in the “natural way” is
featured as a kind of “old fashioned people”, dressed in a kind of “pre-2WWar
way”, or in a “modern”, or yet “old modern” fashion.
So, we can
see that Gattaca is pointing to what comes next to that “old fashioned couple”,
it is pointing to a “postmodern dream”: control and efficiency.
But the “postmodern
dream” came in the “after-postmodern times”, and so it comes with failure in
control and efficiency.
Gattaca shows
an “after-postmodern mythology”, in a Jungian sense where “mythology” is
something deeper than the apparent reality. The Greek myth of Procrustes is
represented in an opposite way: the main character make some kind of surgery to
stretch his legs, instead of cut it. That main character is a symbol of someone
that trespass time and space, he comes from modern, trespass postmodern and
arrives at post-modern times achieving his own dream of freedom, despite the
supposed control and efficiency of a world dominated by gene-owners,
gene-rulers, gene-power.
best movie ever!
ResponderExcluirOK... or also maybe best "pre-after-postmodern" movie ever!
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