Matt VS Vincent - NIck

FOCUS QUESTION- The main difference between how they treat Matt and Vincent.

 Hiding because you’re a clone and hiding because you’re not, completely different situations but still similar in some ways. Matteo Alacran is the clone of the great drug lord and leader of Opium, El Patron. Matt is an outcast in Opium, and is hated by everybody around him. He is viewed as a beast and an animal that nobody wants to even look at. Matt is an outcast. On the other side of the spectrum we have, Vincent Freeman, a natural-born human living in the municipality of Gattaca. Vincent is not perfect and modified so he cannot be part of the space program, this is Vincent's dream. He must find a way to get in. Let's examine their situations.

Starting off with Matt. Matt grew up in a loving household with Celia; she cared for him but was always very secretive. Matt always thought that he was just a normal kid that was scared of the outside world because of the chupacabras.  Matt thought that every other kid was like him, yet he was so wrong. Other kids played with each other and went to school. Matt was isolated and had never met another human being other than Celia and the doctor that came and checked on him once a month. When matt finally met some kids he was so happy, he thought that he was norma they thought he was normal, they laughed they played. Then they found out he was a clone, everything changed. He was dumped on the street and forgotten, viewed as a beast ad a savage animal, nobody wanted anything to do with him.

Then we have Vincent Freeman, or should I say Jerome Morrow. Vincent is the complete opposite as Matt, he is a natural-born or “Love Baby”. Vincent’s situation is that he is not perfect, all of the other people in Gattaca have been genetically altered so that they are completely perfect. Vincent however has not had this done to him and he has a heart condition that is hindering him from going to space. To pursue his dream of going to space, Vincent acquires the help of Jerome Morrow who is modified to be perfect. Vincent takes the identity of Jerome through such techniques as urine bags and small fingertip overlays with blood in them. This makes him essentially faultless to any detection systems. Vincent’s dream comes true and he goes to space but Jerome kills himself.

In both Gattaca and Opium people who are different are somehow outcasts and are not part of normal life. This can also be looked at in our own lives, where people such as gays are viewed as wrong and therefore we hate them. It really shows that no matter where it is people who are different will be viewed as wrong.