Post #5 Gattaca Comparison

When I was watching the film "Gattaca", all I could do was compare this main character to Matt in the "House of the Scorpion". The main character, Vincent, was normal, and to be accepted into society he must have a "valid genetic profile". Matt was a clone, and he was thought to not be a real person. I see similarities because both of these people just want to be accepted into society and to be seen as normal, not like a creature. I think that Matt had an easier time, because there was nothing he could do to make himself no longer be a clone. Also, there was no way people could tell the difference between normal and clones in the House of the Scorpion. However, Vincent didn't have it that easy. Although there are not many physical differences to tell whether or not someone has valid genes, people are constantly checking their blood and making retinal scans to see if a person is valid. He had to go through all of the steps to make sure that his DNA is never scanned, but Jerome's was. He had to constantly carry around Jerome's blood and contacts to make sure he was never known who he really was. The only extent that Matt had to go to in order to make sure no one knows him, was to keep his foot covered up so they didn't read "Property of the Alacran State". (Pg 321) In the society in Gattaca, to be accepted, you have to be modified. While in the House of the Scorpion, to be modified is not correct or accepted. This is where the differences are. Matt wants to be normal, and Vincent wants to be modified. In each of these different worlds, what is thought to be right and what is thought to be wrong is different. But there is one thing that is the same, everyone just wants to fit in. This thought of being "normal" is strange. In House of the Scorpion, normal is just normal. Unmodified. Unchanged. But it wasn't that case in Gattaca, the people who were modified were considered the normality. This is an odd thought that there are some people who are normal, and those who are not normal don't belong. This is what these characters want to be, normal. They want to fit in. But it is also like that in the real world, we all strive to be normal. Not being normal is not desired.