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‘Gattaca shows us how easily people can be corrupted.’ Discuss. Andrew Nicccol’s film presents viewers with a society that has been deformed by its power. The underlying theme of humanity distorting itself is reminiscent of Lord Acton’s famous dictum; ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Indeed , it is the dominant class of “vitro” humans that is shown to be responsible for the “burden of perfection” and “routine discrimination”, while the unfortunate “in-valids” are subjected to such oppression. What makes the scenario so interesting is that humanity has not been able to create itself a perfect race of people, as shown by the character flaws inherent in Eugene, Josef, Anton, Irene… Their superiority is merely illusory, making the concept of Gattace not only pessimistic but frighteningly real. Vincent’s narration at the beginning of