Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Nathan Jacowitz on Gattica

Nathan Jacowitz

Movie comments and observations:

This movie related powerfully to what we studied in chapter six and seven. In the movie a powerful Ideology of genetic superiority manifested itself in the in the acts and societal biases toward people not genetically engineered. The “Faith births” were looked down upon as being weaker or of less value and the genetically engineered were view as normal. The leaders of Gattica instated hegemony over there students and the students in turn fell right into it. They had an unquestioned agreement about the way the world is. They maintained he Ideology that they as students were better then lower class workers, the janitors, window cleaners and garbage men. In the end they allowed decimating power to fall into the hands of upper management. In order to even get into Gattica Eathan Hawk’s character had to go to great lengths just to be seen as normal in the eyes of management and students. He actually gave up who he was and was forced to embrace a new identity that he wouldn’t outside of his work environment.
The first frame from chapter seven I saw in application in the film was frame 1: gender differences at work. In the movie it was assumed based on the research that they were doing with DNA that they could predict the life span and functionality of a person at birth. In frame one we have a discussion based on Deborah Tannen’s book that relates to this practice. The text comments that in frame one, research shows that men and women use two different communication styles which are socially determined. I believe that the majority of society opinion will determine societal norms. If a belief is accepted that women and men should or do act, communicate or relate in certain ways it will in a reflective way establish what it considered behaving abnormally. For a example, a women trys to get a job which society considers to be primarily a mans job. Eathan Hawks character went through this process. He was going after a job which society had determined was meant for a certain Genetic genders” if you will. It was meant for the stronger, smarter and most agile of humans. Because they possessed the technology to find out who those humans were, they determined that based on their analysis he should not be one of them. He should behave weaker, slower and be more ineffective.
The next frame I see at work in the movie is frame 4: Gendered narratives in popular culture. The parents of Ethan Harks roll in the movie were influences be cultural narratives. They saw commercials and spoke to people who sustained the ground that in order to be successful in life you had to be genetically engineered. A prime example is the way the nurses acted and what they said when the baby was first born. From the out set they began to place value based a “Genetic Narrative” if you will.
A final observation that I had was that life in the movie was parent oriented. It was about the credibility of the parent of a child rather then the life of the child. It would be embarrassing as a parent to have children who weren’t successful, and thus embarrassing to have children not genetically engineered. They were told that the children that have the “best chances in life” were the ones who got a jump start from the very beginning with genetics. His parents didn’t have to go get a genetically engineered baby, they could have remained content with him.
Gender discrimination relates to genetic discrimination in a “glass roof” type of way. That is to say, in our organizational environment today women are generally aloud to advance through management ranks, but only so far. They are rarely granted the highest positions in big companies. This was apparent in the film as Eathan Hark’s love interest was aloud to participate in the program at Gattica but wasn’t aloud to advance into the actual space flight.
In the movie with the “Faith Births“ were discriminated against by being given all the lowest jobs with virtually no room for advancement. In our day and age this type of discrimination is alive and well. Women are discriminated against in the work place by being pigeon hold into certain positions or not being reviewed as candidates for others.

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