GATTACA Movie Worksheets

This site has downloads for 12 plus worksheets to accompany the movie GATTACA.  These worksheets can focus students as they watch the movie or teacher selected parts of the movie. Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film that presents a vision of a society driven by liberal eugenics where potential children are selected through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to instantly identify and classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived by traditional means are derisively known as "in-valids". While genetic discrimination is forbidden by law, in practice it is easy to profile a person's genotype resulting in the valids qualifying for professional employment while the in-validsu2014considered more susceptible to disease, educational dysfunction and shorter lifespansu2014are relegated to menial jobs. The movie draws on concerns over reproductive technologies which facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society. It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives