Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/, course: Science Fiction, 2 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Gattaca is a film by director Andrew Niccol. It is set in the not too distant future and is about a man, Vincent Freeman, living in a society where the fate of its citizens is already influenced before their birth. By prenatal preselection the so called "Valids," people who are genetically superior to those who have been conceived the common way, are destined to have...