Gattaca: Scene Analysis

  • Urma is symmetrical and slick
  • she fits the Arian race
  • doesn’t look at him
  • talks very monotone
  • everyone is slick
  • when there is a lot going on the camera doesn’t move to avoid confusion
  • Jerome and irene has blonde hair blue eyes
  • cutting between the events to build suspense and tension
  • the camera slowly pans up the stairs
  • bird’s eye view over Jerome on the stairs to portray him as weak
  • uses a filter to resemble the old way of taking photos in the early 20th century
  • close up on Jerome’s hand to show his struggle
  • music to build tension
  • costume design from the 20th century
  • telescope for vincent to look at the sky
  • Anton is higher on the helix and vincent
  • her hair falls apart when she got upset
Close up on egenes finger struggling to press the button to create tension.
Anton Skrrts up into the frame for dramatic effect.
Eugene dresses like in the early 1900s which is the time when eugenics was popular.
Irene has just found out that jerome is not who he said he was and she is a little cross.
The spiral staircase symbolises DNA and vincent is at the bottom and Anton is at the top, meaning Anton has better genes than him.
Eugene is blurred out and replaced with vincent in the shot and irl.
Over the shoulder coz the characters are having a convo, and Irene’s hair is falling apart just like her perception of Jerome.
High angle to make him look week
birds eye view to show how far down he is on the steps and how far he has to go.
Close up on his hand to show his struggle.

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