Micheal Nyman's music in gattaca has a large influence on how the audience interprets scenes throughout the film. Alongside Nyman's music, Andrew niccol uses various techniques such as filters, camera shots, editing, lighting and sound affects which all contribute in helping to portray the emotions felt by the characters. Gattaca is a movie about deception and perfection in the ‘not so distant future'. It is a ‘surveillance' society obsessed with perfection who leave little or not lee way for those who are ‘invalid' or are born as a ‘god-child'.

The element of deception is highlighted at the begging of the film as we see microscopic views of excess flakes of skin, hair and nails which ironically look like snow, and pieces of lumbar to the viewers. These microscopic close-ups are done alongside cold and haunting music with a loud exaggeration of sounds when the nails and hair hits the surface. This haunting music could also be interpreted as being suspenseful thereby creating......

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Title: Gattaca
Approximate Word Count: 478
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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