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, 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",...