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449. Frame Rate: Gattaca (Feat. Sarah Griffith) (Patreon)

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2022-01-07 14:01:03
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2023-12
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It is the near-future and genetic manipulation has polarized the rich/poor gap to an even more extreme extent. Michael and Abe along with Small Bean Sarah Griffith take a look at the prescient social commentary in this 1997 sci-fi starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman. Also Dean Norris. Michael reminds us that we cannot forget Dean Norris, the star of Gattaca!

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Sarah Griffith: https://twitter.com/sk_griffith

Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP

Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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Drew Mancini

My last rewatch of this I noticed that Danny DeVito produced this movie. I then realized that Danny DeVito played a science experiment, lab created, lesser twin in Twins; he played a genetically undesirable, and abandoned first born in Batman Returns; and he felt compelled enough by this screenplay that he decided to produce the dystopian future of a genetically enhanced civilization.

Peter Jones

Pushing all my chips in on a big budget miniseries remake/continuation. Something I never considered, I'd love to see it. Spoilers ahead: I loved getting Sarah's fresh take (I was one of those people who saw it first in my 7th grade science class). I'd just like to go to bat for Ethan Hawke's uncharacteristic resignation at the last moment—it may be clunky, but it's there to set up the reveal: that Xander Berkeley was tacitly in on it the whole time. Michael says that the main conceit as a viewer is believing that Hawke could actually get away with this scheme, ever. But we get this mini twist to show that there's still power in a bit of solidarity among little people suffering under a discriminatory society. It seems ridiculous that his brother, doctor, girlfriend, or former boss wouldn't immediately catch onto the ploy—but I think we're shown that they obviously must, and they just don't sell him out. Everyone that actually understands him and his situation help him succeed.