Gattaca (1987) is, on the whole, quite a bad film: poorly written, horrendously cast, and, to top it all, Michael Nyman’s music somehow manages to out-schmaltz even the previous work of Nyman himself. However, the case for the defence should immediately call up the over-saturated orange glow radiating off sheer concrete in many of the exterior shots, Tony Shalhoub’s performance as a ghoulish identity salesman, and a basic concept worthy of Zizek:

“This is what the "end of nature’” means: synthetic life is not just supplementing natural life, it turns natural life itself into a (confused, imperfect) species of synthetic life.“ - Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

03/21/09 at 3:39pm