[px43]

The movie also did a lot to turn the public against the emerging field of genetic engineering, and science in general. Even 25 years later, people cite GATTACA as a reason to avoid vaccines.

It seems to me that the overwhelming takeaway from that movie was more science is always bad, and leads to suffering and human misery. I think there were some good messages in there, but most people who I have talked to about the movie seem to have missed them, and focus entirely on how we need to outlaw any form of research into human genetics.

[jecel]

Everyone I have talked to that remembers the movie as well as reviews I have seen think it is about genetic engineering. The only thing the movie actually shows is genetic selection. The scientist tells Vincent's parents that only their genes will be used, though selected such that if they tried millions of times they would be unlikely to naturally get such a good combination.

[px43]

Yup, I remember that line "Remember, the child is still you, simply the best of you."