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Mike Judge with his Idiocracy and Office Space is almost like someone had a crystal ball for early 21st century.
Office Space is pure genius and I was flabbergasted not to see it more popular. I am glad Judge got much bigger break with Silicon Valley.
No joke, this film helped me get over really bad mental stuff. That the human spirit can sort of compensate for pretty much anything is what I find beautiful. But the bad side is the faustian bargain, the sacrifice.
There's a scene where ethan hawke's character has to go through a painful bone procedure to adjust his height and he comforts himself by thinking he's a few inches closer to the stars.
Everything is just about coming one step closer to the goal regardless of if it can be reached or if someone else can get there faster.
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The part that I could never get over is that the discrimination against the main character actually made sense. He's trying to hide his heart condition to go in an important space mission. edit: HN is rate limiting me so I can't reply, but to davesque's comment below: > no one wants to live in a world where their life and capabilities are pre-determined But we do live in that world. It was determined that I would nev…
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I found it really hard to relate to any of the characters in the film, to the point where they were barely recognizable as humans. Does it make sense, in a world like the one in Gattaca, for a person that is part of a discriminated class, to go into space, instead of trying to change the society around him to be less discriminatory? It seemed to me like the whole effort was a self-motivated, flaccid revenge fantasy t…
I believe advances in AI will make the core plot idea of the film obsolete. It is a good movie, but even the most genetically perfect human will probably not have a fraction of the intelligence of AI. He will be, relatively speaking, a mere dummy like the rest of us. Thus the future as shown in this film will not happen. However, good sci-fi is actually always about the present. And the movie has a lot of interesting…
From what I remember the film didn't focus on intelligence. The main character suffers from genetic disorders that affect his health and lifespan, plus discrimination based on his 'invalid' status. All of that is still very relevant regardless of any progress with AGI.
this line lives so deep in my brain: "You want to know how I did it? I never saved anything for the swim back"
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> Does it make sense, in a world like the one in Gattaca, for a person that is part of a discriminated class, to go into space, instead of trying to change the society around him to be less discriminatory? I think this is a little naive. Why should every member of an underclass have to fight the good fight vs improve their own personal position? IMO, the latter is much more likely.
And when the news gets out a underclass achieved something great it may change things.
I haven't seen it in a long time, just looking up the cast, and Dean Norris plays — you guessed it — a cop.