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Date/Location


Tuesday
Nov 22, 2005

5:30-7:30 pm

South Hall 2509

Transcriptions Funding Proposals


Gattaca

Screening and Discussion

Discussion leaders for this event: Yanoula Athanassakis & Kim Knight


Event Details

 

 


Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he is automatically denied the opportunity to pursue a career as an astronaut. When he assumes the identity of Jerome, a man who is genetically perfect yet crippled, things begin to look up. Vincent is close to his dream of space flight and the beautiful Irene has entered his life, adding some much needed variety. However, things start to fall apart when the mission director at Gattaca Corp is murdered. Not knowing whom he can trust, Vincent’s life is thrown into chaos as he tries to avoid suspicion and maintain his identity.


 

About LCI Film.Literature.Software Series


The Film.Literature.Software series is sponsored by the UCSB English Department's Literature and the Culture of Information (LCI) specialization. Events in the series bring together undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty to discuss films, fiction, poetry, games, software, and other works related to new media and new technologies. (See http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/events/fls-series/ index.asp). The LCI specialization is associated with the English Department's Transcriptions project on literary history and information culture.




 
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