In the 1997 science- fiction movie: Gattaca, Andrew Niccol the writer and director of the movie portrays ambitions through symbolism. One of the ideas used for symbolism is Eugenics. According to the Oxford dictionary, eugenics is the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. In the movie, eugenics is the base of the movie. This is because only “perfect” humans are able to get into the space force or able to get higher up in society. Because Eugenics was used by Adolf Hitler in the early 20th century Andrew Niccol tried to make a modern-day version of Eugenics as his movie was meant to be based in the future. The physical traits in this movie are a symbol of time as lots of them were bought back in time even though the movie was based in the future, such as the underlying sepia tone, the hairstyles, the cars, clothing and buildings in this movie.
So I think that Andrew Niccol is trying to tell us not to repeat the past as Eugenics has never lead to happiness.
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