Gattaca - Andrew Niccol Flashcards
“I not only think that we will…”
“…tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.” (Willard Gaylin)
(…)
“Consider God’s…”
“…handiwork; who can straighten what he hath made crooked?” (Ecclesiastes 7:13)
(…)
Old md: “You keep your….”
“…workspace so clean, Jerome.”
J “it’s next to godliness, isn’t thy what they say?”
Irene “if you’re going to…”
“…pretend like you don’t care - don’t look up.”
“I’ll never understand what…”
“…possessed my mother to put her faith in gods hands rather than those of her local geneticist.” (Flashback)
Father: “no, uh…”
“…Vincent anton” (flashback)
“From an early age…”
“…I came to think of myself as others thought of me - chronically ill.” (Flashback)
Doctor “believe me, we…”
“…have enough imperfection built in already.” (Flashback)
“Anton was by far the…”
“…strongest swimmer, and he had no excuse to fail.”
“How many astronauts are…”
“…there anyway? I bet I could be one, if I wanted.” (Flashback)
“There’s a change there’s…”
“…nothing wrong with me.” “One change in a hundred” “-well it take it, alright?” (Flashback)
“My real résumé…”
“…was in my cells.” (Flashback)
“It was the one moment in…”
“It was the moment that…”
“…our lives that my brother was not as strong as he believed, and I was not as weak.” (Flashback)
“…made everything else possible.”
“I belonged to an new…”
“…underclass no longer determined by your social status or the colour of your skin, no. We now have discrimination down to a science.” (Flashback)
“There is no…”
“…gene for fate.” (Flashback)
“…I took my mind off the pain by…”
“…reminding myself that when I eventually did stand up, I’d be exactly 2inches closer to the stars.” (Flashback)
J “Jerome morrow was…”
“…never meant to be second on the podium.” (Flashback)
“He (Eugene) suffered…”
“…under a different burden - the burden of perfection.”
J “If at first you…”
“I couldn’t even…”
“…don’t succeed, try, try again”
“…get that right.”
V “oh I’m sorry…”
“…the wind caught it.”
(About Irene) “you are the…”
“…authority on what’s not possible.”
“You want to know…”
“…how I did it? … I never saved anything for the swim back.”
“For someone who..”
“…was never meant for this world, I must confess, I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star; maybe I’m not leaving - maybe I’m going home.”
