maybe i'm going home @jerome--morrow - Tumblr Blog

Being crazy about a piece of media for any amount of time will leave a weird mark on you forever because years later you’ll see someone posting something about it like “can we talk about this frame” and you’ll be like “ah that frame. i know all about that frame. I was once a scholar of that frame.”

#yes.

—so they may have a chance of finding a place where they're far more suited than here—

[Gattaca (1997) dir. Andrew Niccol] • [Soul Meets Body - Death Cab For Cutie]

#audio is really quiet on this one idk why #but i can't be bothered to fix it lol #vincent freeman #jerome morrow #freemorrow #gattaca edit

cogneartive

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

#jerome morrow #(vincent flavor or eugene flavor)

neptuenery

gattaca (1997)

#YESSSSSSSS #WELCOME TO THE GATTACA FANDOM #gattaca

wulfhalls

For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving… maybe I'm going home.

Gattaca (1997) dir. Andrew Niccol

[Gattaca (1997) dir. Andrew Niccol] • [Washing Machine Heart - Mitski]

#it's thinking about irene hours #gattaca #gattaca edit #gattaca fanvid #irene cassini

porcelain-animatronic

Irene is so important to the plot and themes of Gattaca that she frankly deserves her own post. Hell she deserves a whole paper, but that won’t be tonight tho cause I would want to rewatch it first.

Anyways the strand of hair scenes are genuinely sweet and the chemistry between Irene and Vincent is genuinely delightful. I’m incredibly picky about my romantic plot lines and theirs is done incredibly well.

But to touch on the strand of hair scenes again, we see that at the start of the film genetic status matters to Irene. It’s why she offers Vincent a strand of her hair to get sequenced , even if she knows that hers is not very good because of her heart condition. This idea of genetic status being important to her is then further extrapolated on when she takes (iirc) one of Vincent’s “borrowed ladder” hairs to get sequenced. And she’s upset that it comes back societally perfect!

Irene is meant to be the surrogate for society: outwardly put together, but internally there are perceived flaws. She wants to be better, but also believes that that’s not possible. She buys into the hierarchy for better or worse.

And yet, her mind is changed by Vincent. Vincent shows her that she doesn’t have to be her sequencing. His lie is actively being revealed and she starts to see him as an equal.

By the end of the film, she doesn’t care what his sequencing says. That parallel where she tosses his strand into the wind is one of the most (if not the most) important scene in the whole film.

That scene also parallel’s nicely with the last scene with the doctor, where he tells Vincent that he hopes that his story will make life better for him genetically unmodified son.

The fact that Irene changes her mind at the end, even under the pretenses of a romantic plotline, proves that the doctor’s comment (and the film for the most part) is meant to be read as hopeful.

#irene #analysis