ガタカ [DVD]
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イーサン・ホークとユマ・サーマン共演によるSFサスペンス。宇宙局“ガタカ”へ入社したヴィンセントは、幾多もの検査をパスし、探査船の航海士の座を射止めるが…。“ベストコレクション 期間限定\1,980”。 -- 内容(「DVD NAVIGATOR」データベースより)
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2024年2月8日に日本でレビュー済み
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SF, the theme picks up surely science, but it's more of melodrama. "A guy belived that he could achieve what he going for, even if he had inferior genes and was regarded impossible in this world. To get a chance to be an astronautt, he trades existince himself, disguises as the another person who has superior genes..." Altho the film was made in the 90s, but all of design concepts (for suits, car, architecture and its interior, etc) were based on the future that it would have been imagined in the 50-60s. Simple, beutiful and sotisficaded direction and music as well. Unnecessary performance have been omitted, it's easy to watch overall
2023年12月26日に日本でレビュー済み
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未来の話ですが、セットはクラシックで素敵でした。
車やラウンジ、ピアノリサイタル…
ピアニストは6本指で生まれ、蔑まされていたのかなぁ?
芸術は未来でも霞まないなぁと思ったし、ユマ・サーマンの言う通り多指症の方が確かに沢山の音色を奏でられるなぁと思ったり。(私も楽器を演奏するので)
話は反れましたが、作られた優秀な遺伝子を持つ者として生まれながらも運命までは変えられないジュード・ロウと、生まれながらに劣勢な遺伝子でも努力で自分の運命を変えたイーサン・ホークの対極性が良かったです。
車やラウンジ、ピアノリサイタル…
ピアニストは6本指で生まれ、蔑まされていたのかなぁ?
芸術は未来でも霞まないなぁと思ったし、ユマ・サーマンの言う通り多指症の方が確かに沢山の音色を奏でられるなぁと思ったり。(私も楽器を演奏するので)
話は反れましたが、作られた優秀な遺伝子を持つ者として生まれながらも運命までは変えられないジュード・ロウと、生まれながらに劣勢な遺伝子でも努力で自分の運命を変えたイーサン・ホークの対極性が良かったです。
2024年2月23日に日本でレビュー済み
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本物の〝ジェローム〟が好きだったので辛いラストでしたが、主人公の中で生き続けるのだろうか。それとも主人公も寿命通りに、宇宙の果てで塵になるのだろうか。何とはなしに見ていたのに、終盤でとても感動した。『90年代に考えられた近未来』独特のこの世界観も好き。ただ、ユマ・サーマンさん演じるヒロインが〝装置〟としてしか機能していないので恋愛要素は蛇足に感じたし、面白さとしては普通だと思った。こんなに評価が高いのは非常に男性受けする内容だからかと。
2024年1月12日に日本でレビュー済み
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良いから見ろ
☆5? いいや☆9.7だね
以上
☆5? いいや☆9.7だね
以上
2022年9月25日に日本でレビュー済み
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未来設定など古さは感じますが良かったです。
「遅れるぞ、ヴィンセント」のセリフと音楽が流れてからが…
何故だか分からないけど涙が出ます。
ジェロームは登れないはずの階段を登った、
ヴィンセントの夢を支えた、
出来ないはずのことをやったんだと叫びたくなります。
最後メダルを首にかけたのは銀メダルを誇らしく思えるようになったからではないでしょうか。
ヴィンセントとジェローム、どちらの人生も辛いほど胸にきます。
「遅れるぞ、ヴィンセント」のセリフと音楽が流れてからが…
何故だか分からないけど涙が出ます。
ジェロームは登れないはずの階段を登った、
ヴィンセントの夢を支えた、
出来ないはずのことをやったんだと叫びたくなります。
最後メダルを首にかけたのは銀メダルを誇らしく思えるようになったからではないでしょうか。
ヴィンセントとジェローム、どちらの人生も辛いほど胸にきます。
2023年12月26日に日本でレビュー済み
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配信で何度も観ていましたが、好きなので。自分は強い夢がなく、子育てや仕事を何とか20年以上していますが、感慨深い映画で、四の五の言ってないで頑張ろう!と思える映画です。
2024年2月11日に日本でレビュー済み
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評価が高い作品だが、個人的には刺さらなかったなー
遺伝子操作が当たり前で、より優秀な遺伝子を持つ人間が地位・金・健康・寿命とまさしく全人的な力を得られる世界。そんな中で、遺伝子操作無く自然に(両親の愛の結晶として)この世に生を受けた主人公ビンセントだったが、彼は胎児の時(あるいは胚の時点で)すでに心身の重大な先天性疾患の可能性を指摘され、寿命も30歳くらいだろうと刻印を押されてしまっていた。宿命に抗うべく、彼は、事故により半身不随となったエリートのジェロームと闇の契約を結び、ジェロームになりすまして超一流宇宙研究施設ガタカのキャリアを獲ることに成功する。ところが、ビンセントの幼いころからの夢であった宇宙飛行が実現しようとする数週間前に、突然彼の上司が殺されてしまい、ビンセントの運命に暗雲が立ち込め始める。。。
近未来を舞台にしたSF映画だが、派手なアクションシーンや凝った CGはほとんどなく、淡々と物語が進行していくあたりは自分としては嫌いではなかった。最終的にビンセントが夢を実現するところも、カタルシスがあってよかった。おそらくこの映画のテーマは、デジタルで無機質な世界よりもアナログで歪だけれど愛のある優しい世界が素晴らしいんだということを言いたかったのだろう。ビンセントの周りの勝ち組に属している人々(同僚のアイリーン、ビンセントに身分を売ったジェローム、ビンセントを評価し温かく見守る上司、そしてガタカで身分鑑定を行う医師のレイマー)も、ほんとは皆心の中では「こんな世界なんてクソだ!」と思っていて、ビンセントが不適合者と薄々分かっていても、彼の直向きな姿に心打たれるものがあって応援していたのだろう。
と、ここまでは頭では理解できたけれど、なんとなく物足りなさが残ったなぁ なんか、インターステラーを観たときもこうだった。
「で?」
って感じ。
以上です
遺伝子操作が当たり前で、より優秀な遺伝子を持つ人間が地位・金・健康・寿命とまさしく全人的な力を得られる世界。そんな中で、遺伝子操作無く自然に(両親の愛の結晶として)この世に生を受けた主人公ビンセントだったが、彼は胎児の時(あるいは胚の時点で)すでに心身の重大な先天性疾患の可能性を指摘され、寿命も30歳くらいだろうと刻印を押されてしまっていた。宿命に抗うべく、彼は、事故により半身不随となったエリートのジェロームと闇の契約を結び、ジェロームになりすまして超一流宇宙研究施設ガタカのキャリアを獲ることに成功する。ところが、ビンセントの幼いころからの夢であった宇宙飛行が実現しようとする数週間前に、突然彼の上司が殺されてしまい、ビンセントの運命に暗雲が立ち込め始める。。。
近未来を舞台にしたSF映画だが、派手なアクションシーンや凝った CGはほとんどなく、淡々と物語が進行していくあたりは自分としては嫌いではなかった。最終的にビンセントが夢を実現するところも、カタルシスがあってよかった。おそらくこの映画のテーマは、デジタルで無機質な世界よりもアナログで歪だけれど愛のある優しい世界が素晴らしいんだということを言いたかったのだろう。ビンセントの周りの勝ち組に属している人々(同僚のアイリーン、ビンセントに身分を売ったジェローム、ビンセントを評価し温かく見守る上司、そしてガタカで身分鑑定を行う医師のレイマー)も、ほんとは皆心の中では「こんな世界なんてクソだ!」と思っていて、ビンセントが不適合者と薄々分かっていても、彼の直向きな姿に心打たれるものがあって応援していたのだろう。
と、ここまでは頭では理解できたけれど、なんとなく物足りなさが残ったなぁ なんか、インターステラーを観たときもこうだった。
「で?」
って感じ。
以上です
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B. DeVries
5つ星のうち5.0
Disc only worked in PS4
2021年5月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I've always loved the movie Gattaca. Man thinks he can do everything so much better than God. Also, it was filmed while my husband was a student at Cal Poly, so he remembers the cameras being on campus. This disc will not run in our blu-ray player. We had to play it in our PS4.

Adnan Soysal
5つ星のうち5.0
Psychology of The Will in Science Fiction Society
2022年3月10日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I enjoyed watching this movie.
It's scenes, dialogues, settings are compact, strong. Particularly settings have a strange, deep effect on the viewer.
It feels like entire movie is taking place on a simple science fiction theatre with no computerized widget & sound crowd.
Darkish pastel colors dominate the scenes from start to end creating a mystical, cubical, logical suspense.
Settings are simple, colors are basic, dialogues are short, sharp, and to the point; I would call it a piece of minimalist art.
Movie is combination of fantasy and reality, like a real psychology story in a fantasy setting. It is a presentation power of will, envy, determination.
Story takes place in a country where humans are grouped into two in terms of their genetic; VALID, and INVALID ones.
And this culture is just normal and accepted by everyone.
Valid ones are superior, and candidates for prime jobs.
It is a story of the mind and the will of an invalid person.
Vincent is the protagonist, and he is invalid and has a dream of being an astronaut participating in space missions.
And his brother Anton is a valid one.
Anton seems to lack passion for anything, eventually ending up being an crime investigator on police department.
Vincent first starts working as a cleaner, help boy in a space station.
Knowing that he has no chance of being astronaut, he still follows his dream, does the self study on the subject, and also physical training.
Eventually he concludes that his efforts are worthless unless he has a valid blood. So he decides to fake his identity, scum the system with a valid one's identity.
And he finds someone for that, Jerome.
Jerome is a grandiose swimmer who became second in an international competition and he can not cope with the result psychologically.
And he wanted to kill himself with a traffic accident, but he fails, and his body gets paralyzed.
Jerome provides Vincent all necessary material like blood, urine, hair samples to pass regular controls.
Eventually Vincent is accepted to Space mission program with the identify of Jerome.
Administrator of the mission has suspicion on Vincent and he gets killed. And this murder is investigated by Anton. Anton gets suspicious on Vincent.
While investigation is taking too long and jeopardizing the mission to Saturn, Director of the of the company confess that he killed the administrator because of risk of
failing the mission. However It is never clear who killed the administrator.
Anton implies that Vincent is fake, and his participation in the mission is a scum.
So he invites him to do this swimming competition where they swim into the ocean until one gives up.
They used to this while they were kids, and call it chicken game.
In the test, Anton gives up; and on the return, he was going get drawn, but Vincent save his life.
This clears the Anton hurdle for Vincent.
He eventually gets into the ship to Saturn. Jerome leaves enough blood, hair samples for the rest of Vincent's life.
This was a story of great Will, and fatality of grandiosity.
The Will to overcome will to set the rules; even science, rationality are not perfect enough against human will.
Hard logic presents weakness against the will which fluid , smart, and strong, and eventually it triumphs.
Vincent's will finds support at all corners. His valid girlfriend helps him.
The doctor who does the validity control helps him. Why? Because doctor's son admires the will of Vincent for the mission.
So The Will flows and find it's way.
Jerome is equally interesting character. Why does he participate in this scum?
Does he hate the system? is this his revenge from the system?
Or is it his own unstoppable grandiosity to make his name living forever strong?
Or is it both, that is living in a system you hate while still want to be at the top.
He kills himself when Vincent lifts off in the space ship.
Actors are superb, their performance proves they were the right choice for the movie: Ethan Hawke (Vincent), Uma Thurman (Irene), Jude Law (Jerome)
It's scenes, dialogues, settings are compact, strong. Particularly settings have a strange, deep effect on the viewer.
It feels like entire movie is taking place on a simple science fiction theatre with no computerized widget & sound crowd.
Darkish pastel colors dominate the scenes from start to end creating a mystical, cubical, logical suspense.
Settings are simple, colors are basic, dialogues are short, sharp, and to the point; I would call it a piece of minimalist art.
Movie is combination of fantasy and reality, like a real psychology story in a fantasy setting. It is a presentation power of will, envy, determination.
Story takes place in a country where humans are grouped into two in terms of their genetic; VALID, and INVALID ones.
And this culture is just normal and accepted by everyone.
Valid ones are superior, and candidates for prime jobs.
It is a story of the mind and the will of an invalid person.
Vincent is the protagonist, and he is invalid and has a dream of being an astronaut participating in space missions.
And his brother Anton is a valid one.
Anton seems to lack passion for anything, eventually ending up being an crime investigator on police department.
Vincent first starts working as a cleaner, help boy in a space station.
Knowing that he has no chance of being astronaut, he still follows his dream, does the self study on the subject, and also physical training.
Eventually he concludes that his efforts are worthless unless he has a valid blood. So he decides to fake his identity, scum the system with a valid one's identity.
And he finds someone for that, Jerome.
Jerome is a grandiose swimmer who became second in an international competition and he can not cope with the result psychologically.
And he wanted to kill himself with a traffic accident, but he fails, and his body gets paralyzed.
Jerome provides Vincent all necessary material like blood, urine, hair samples to pass regular controls.
Eventually Vincent is accepted to Space mission program with the identify of Jerome.
Administrator of the mission has suspicion on Vincent and he gets killed. And this murder is investigated by Anton. Anton gets suspicious on Vincent.
While investigation is taking too long and jeopardizing the mission to Saturn, Director of the of the company confess that he killed the administrator because of risk of
failing the mission. However It is never clear who killed the administrator.
Anton implies that Vincent is fake, and his participation in the mission is a scum.
So he invites him to do this swimming competition where they swim into the ocean until one gives up.
They used to this while they were kids, and call it chicken game.
In the test, Anton gives up; and on the return, he was going get drawn, but Vincent save his life.
This clears the Anton hurdle for Vincent.
He eventually gets into the ship to Saturn. Jerome leaves enough blood, hair samples for the rest of Vincent's life.
This was a story of great Will, and fatality of grandiosity.
The Will to overcome will to set the rules; even science, rationality are not perfect enough against human will.
Hard logic presents weakness against the will which fluid , smart, and strong, and eventually it triumphs.
Vincent's will finds support at all corners. His valid girlfriend helps him.
The doctor who does the validity control helps him. Why? Because doctor's son admires the will of Vincent for the mission.
So The Will flows and find it's way.
Jerome is equally interesting character. Why does he participate in this scum?
Does he hate the system? is this his revenge from the system?
Or is it his own unstoppable grandiosity to make his name living forever strong?
Or is it both, that is living in a system you hate while still want to be at the top.
He kills himself when Vincent lifts off in the space ship.
Actors are superb, their performance proves they were the right choice for the movie: Ethan Hawke (Vincent), Uma Thurman (Irene), Jude Law (Jerome)

LD
5つ星のうち5.0
Jerome & Eugene*
2021年4月4日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Un film dans lequel Ethan Hawke ne rêve que d’une chose, aller dans l’espace ? Explorers, de Joe Dante (1985), qui l’avait révélé en même temps que River Phoenix ? Oui, mais aussi évidemment ce film d’il y a près d’un quart de siècle d’ores et déjà devenu un classique contemporain de l’anticipation, Gattaca / Bienvenue à Gattaca (1997). Avec lui – et bien entendu avec le scénario de The Truman Show de Peter Weir, sorti presque en même temps – le scénariste et réalisateur Andrew Niccol faisait une entrée assez fracassante sur le devant de la scène.
On a pu le constater en voyant ses opus suivants, mais cela était déjà évident au vu de ce film-là : même visuellement élaboré avec sa photographie très étudiée et ses ambiances chromatiques variées, même avec ses décors rétrofuturistes bien pensés, Gattaca ne frappe pas comme étant le film d’un grand styliste. Pour autant, celui-ci ne vaut pas que par son scénario, comme certains l’ont parfois dit. Quoi qu’il en soit, c’est bien grâce à la qualité de son scénario que ce film tient particulièrement bien la route et qu’il risque de la tenir encore un bout de temps – sans oublier son interprétation, impeccable.
Je ne vais bien entendu pas entrer dans le détail relativement au script. Ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore ce film ne doivent pas trop en savoir, et s’en tenir au fait que le récit se déroule « dans un avenir pas si lointain », dans un monde eugéniste divisé entre personnes conçues et sélectionnées comme il faut (les valides), qui constituent la nouvelle élite, et les autres, fruits de la nature et du hasard devenus rebuts de la société (les « in-valides »). La réflexion de Niccol, nourrie à des récits bien connus – à commencer par le modèle le plus évident, Brave New World / Le meilleur des mondes d’Aldous Huxley (1932) – tourne autour de la perfection (toujours illusoire ?) et de l’imperfection (nécessaire même si incapacitante ?), et de la fluidité requise même au sein de sociétés rigides où tout a sa logique et se programme. Il a su l’incarner dans une histoire de « frères » bien agencée. Avec sa voix off et sa musique (signée Michael Nyman) particulièrement présentes toutes les deux, Gattaca n’a pas spécialement plu à ceux qui n’aiment pas que les films reposent sur un scénario et un texte aussi évidemment écrits, d’autant plus que la froideur caractérise le monde représenté et au-delà l’ensemble de la mise en scène. Certes avec son budget limité et les quelques limites en tant que metteur en scène que je pointais plus haut, Niccol fait pourtant tout cela très bien, et n’affadit pas trop son propos avec les quelques aspects un peu plus conventionnels pointant le bout de leur nez dans le développement de son récit. On a parfois un peu exagéré la réussite de ce film, je trouve, en en faisant un classique absolu du récit d’anticipation : je pense que c’est peut-être lui faire un petit excès d’honneur ; en revanche, il ne fait pas beaucoup de doute pour moi que c’en est une, de réussite, et comme il n’y en a pas eu tant que cela depuis 25 ans il est vrai qu’elle sort d’autant plus du lot. Le relatif minimalisme esthétique, sans faire fauché, et des lieux particulièrement bien choisis** expliquent également que le film ne souffre pas vraiment de coup de vieux accéléré.
Une douzaine d’années après Explorers, Ethan Hawke n’avait plus sa bouille de gamin enthousiaste mais il était alors encore jeune premier, sans la gueule un peu burinée et la voix éraillée qu’on lui connaît depuis quelques années. Beaucoup découvraient Jude Law avec ce film, et cette découverte était majeure. Leurs scènes à tous les deux sont la meilleure part de ce film. C’est moins le cas de celles avec Uma Thurman, sans doute en raison de son personnage nécessairement un peu moins bien dessiné, car son jeu n’est pas vraiment en cause. Le moindre second rôle est tenu par quelqu’un qu’on a plaisir à voir, d’Alan Arkin ou Tony Shalhoub au vétéran Ernest Bornigne en passant bien sûr par Gore Vidal, le légendaire romancier et scénariste qui tenait là un des rares rôles qu’il a eus à l’écran.
*Niccol s’amuse avec les noms qu’il a choisis pour ses personnages. Vincent Freeman, le sous-homme qui porte dans son nom à la fois la trace du fait qu’il est condamné à être un esclave mais aussi qu’il peut être en mesure de se libérer de sa condition (cf. le fait qu’aux Etats-Unis c’était le nom donné à nombre d’esclaves émancipés) v. Jerome Morrow, l’homme de demain, celui qui était promis à un grand avenir et qui ironiquement doit recourir à son deuxième prénom, le très symboliquement chargé Eugene, car il est à présent obligé de prêter le premier. D’autre part, le nom Gattaca est lui aussi signifiant : il rassemble quatre nucléotides (éléments de base de l’ADN).
**Il s’amuse sans doute tout autant avec ses décors. Il est piquant d’avoir opté pour le Marin County Civic Center de Frank Lloyd Wright (certes architecte sans aucun doute toujours en avance sur son temps) pour figurer ce qui était présenté comme l’avenir à la fin des années 90, car celui-ci a été conçu dans les années 50 et achevé au début des années 60. Ajoutons à cela les escaliers en forme d’hélices d’ADN et autres touches du même genre, et on constatera qu’il n’y a pas grand-chose qui aura été laissé au hasard.
EDITION BLU-RAY FRANCAISE COLUMBIA (2008)
Le blu-ray français paru en 2008 est de bonne qualité dans l’ensemble mais l’image n’est pas toujours assez détaillée et les noirs ne sont pas tout à fait assez soutenus. Il est à noter pour les amateurs de 4K qu’une nouvelle édition vient de paraître – j’ai déjà lu du bien ici et là du nouveau master restauré – avec une édition française spécifique annoncée pour juin 2021. Il me semble que l’édition déjà sortie est de toute façon dézonée.
Les suppléments ne sont pas assez nombreux mais pas inintéressants, les scènes coupées notamment.
On a pu le constater en voyant ses opus suivants, mais cela était déjà évident au vu de ce film-là : même visuellement élaboré avec sa photographie très étudiée et ses ambiances chromatiques variées, même avec ses décors rétrofuturistes bien pensés, Gattaca ne frappe pas comme étant le film d’un grand styliste. Pour autant, celui-ci ne vaut pas que par son scénario, comme certains l’ont parfois dit. Quoi qu’il en soit, c’est bien grâce à la qualité de son scénario que ce film tient particulièrement bien la route et qu’il risque de la tenir encore un bout de temps – sans oublier son interprétation, impeccable.
Je ne vais bien entendu pas entrer dans le détail relativement au script. Ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore ce film ne doivent pas trop en savoir, et s’en tenir au fait que le récit se déroule « dans un avenir pas si lointain », dans un monde eugéniste divisé entre personnes conçues et sélectionnées comme il faut (les valides), qui constituent la nouvelle élite, et les autres, fruits de la nature et du hasard devenus rebuts de la société (les « in-valides »). La réflexion de Niccol, nourrie à des récits bien connus – à commencer par le modèle le plus évident, Brave New World / Le meilleur des mondes d’Aldous Huxley (1932) – tourne autour de la perfection (toujours illusoire ?) et de l’imperfection (nécessaire même si incapacitante ?), et de la fluidité requise même au sein de sociétés rigides où tout a sa logique et se programme. Il a su l’incarner dans une histoire de « frères » bien agencée. Avec sa voix off et sa musique (signée Michael Nyman) particulièrement présentes toutes les deux, Gattaca n’a pas spécialement plu à ceux qui n’aiment pas que les films reposent sur un scénario et un texte aussi évidemment écrits, d’autant plus que la froideur caractérise le monde représenté et au-delà l’ensemble de la mise en scène. Certes avec son budget limité et les quelques limites en tant que metteur en scène que je pointais plus haut, Niccol fait pourtant tout cela très bien, et n’affadit pas trop son propos avec les quelques aspects un peu plus conventionnels pointant le bout de leur nez dans le développement de son récit. On a parfois un peu exagéré la réussite de ce film, je trouve, en en faisant un classique absolu du récit d’anticipation : je pense que c’est peut-être lui faire un petit excès d’honneur ; en revanche, il ne fait pas beaucoup de doute pour moi que c’en est une, de réussite, et comme il n’y en a pas eu tant que cela depuis 25 ans il est vrai qu’elle sort d’autant plus du lot. Le relatif minimalisme esthétique, sans faire fauché, et des lieux particulièrement bien choisis** expliquent également que le film ne souffre pas vraiment de coup de vieux accéléré.
Une douzaine d’années après Explorers, Ethan Hawke n’avait plus sa bouille de gamin enthousiaste mais il était alors encore jeune premier, sans la gueule un peu burinée et la voix éraillée qu’on lui connaît depuis quelques années. Beaucoup découvraient Jude Law avec ce film, et cette découverte était majeure. Leurs scènes à tous les deux sont la meilleure part de ce film. C’est moins le cas de celles avec Uma Thurman, sans doute en raison de son personnage nécessairement un peu moins bien dessiné, car son jeu n’est pas vraiment en cause. Le moindre second rôle est tenu par quelqu’un qu’on a plaisir à voir, d’Alan Arkin ou Tony Shalhoub au vétéran Ernest Bornigne en passant bien sûr par Gore Vidal, le légendaire romancier et scénariste qui tenait là un des rares rôles qu’il a eus à l’écran.
*Niccol s’amuse avec les noms qu’il a choisis pour ses personnages. Vincent Freeman, le sous-homme qui porte dans son nom à la fois la trace du fait qu’il est condamné à être un esclave mais aussi qu’il peut être en mesure de se libérer de sa condition (cf. le fait qu’aux Etats-Unis c’était le nom donné à nombre d’esclaves émancipés) v. Jerome Morrow, l’homme de demain, celui qui était promis à un grand avenir et qui ironiquement doit recourir à son deuxième prénom, le très symboliquement chargé Eugene, car il est à présent obligé de prêter le premier. D’autre part, le nom Gattaca est lui aussi signifiant : il rassemble quatre nucléotides (éléments de base de l’ADN).
**Il s’amuse sans doute tout autant avec ses décors. Il est piquant d’avoir opté pour le Marin County Civic Center de Frank Lloyd Wright (certes architecte sans aucun doute toujours en avance sur son temps) pour figurer ce qui était présenté comme l’avenir à la fin des années 90, car celui-ci a été conçu dans les années 50 et achevé au début des années 60. Ajoutons à cela les escaliers en forme d’hélices d’ADN et autres touches du même genre, et on constatera qu’il n’y a pas grand-chose qui aura été laissé au hasard.
EDITION BLU-RAY FRANCAISE COLUMBIA (2008)
Le blu-ray français paru en 2008 est de bonne qualité dans l’ensemble mais l’image n’est pas toujours assez détaillée et les noirs ne sont pas tout à fait assez soutenus. Il est à noter pour les amateurs de 4K qu’une nouvelle édition vient de paraître – j’ai déjà lu du bien ici et là du nouveau master restauré – avec une édition française spécifique annoncée pour juin 2021. Il me semble que l’édition déjà sortie est de toute façon dézonée.
Les suppléments ne sont pas assez nombreux mais pas inintéressants, les scènes coupées notamment.

Matt C.
5つ星のうち5.0
Great quality BD.
2022年11月7日にオーストラリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Great sound and picture quality on this classic movie. Highly recommended if you're not upgrading to the newly released 4K edition which is unfortunately not available in Australia.

Hugh D. Lester
5つ星のうち5.0
Perhaps one of the ten best films with an ethical orientation
2014年3月16日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Ultimately, the core of this film is human striving, human imperfection, and personal meaning. No matter where one finds oneself on the bell curve, there is always someone further to the right. If not, every friend, lover, relative and person one will ever know lies somewhere to the left. Only acceptance of this fact, over all metrics, will allow true equity to exist for everyone on the spectrum.
Gattaca is a 1997 film written and directed by Andrew M. Niccol. It was his first feature film -- although he was an accomplished director of commercials -- and was followed by The Truman Show and In Time, among others. It falls into the genre of science fiction, and is set in the near future. Genetic technology is ubiquitous, but was just becoming accepted at the time of the protagonist's birth.
Vincent is conceived and carried to term without intervention via genetic technologies that select or modify zygotes prior to cell division. The original script called this a "faith birth," although the term "IN-VALID," pronounced like the word "invalid" in "an invalid driver's license," is used more prominently in the movie. Vincent has varying propensities for genetically-influenced issues such as aggression, obesity, and attention-deficit disorder, which remain untreatable in an age where the obvious solution is for them to be eradicated by genetically selecting them out of existence. He has a genetic heart condition which results in a 99% chance of a 30.5-year life expectancy. His parents' awareness of this causes them to treat him as an invalid his entire childhood and to stress his limitations instead of his potential.
Vincent's younger brother, Anton, is genetically enhanced, and therefore VALID. The process of his genetic selection is described in more detail in an earlier script, including the fact that his parents had to save every dime for two years in order to afford the process, but were unable to afford enhancements such as the "innate" ability to play the piano or understand higher mathematics.
Anton and Vincent are rivals -- most tellingly at open ocean swimming -- with Anton's enhanced physicality and Vincent's heart condition leading to predictable results, at least during childhood. Anton stands indifferently by as Vincent leaves home at sixteen, disappearing into the genetic underclass of day laborers, housecleaners and sanitation workers.
Anton is a child of privilege and an adult who displays many of the markers of childhood, perhaps because he never had to face adversity in his own life. As lead investigator of a murder committed at the corporation where Vincent, and later Jerome, is employed, these qualities surface. Due to an errant eyelash, Vincent (the IN-VALID) becomes a suspect. Anton searches for him, or any genetic traces of him, without revealing that they are related, and without initially suspecting that Vincent is posing as VALID.
Society is divided into IN-VALIDs and VALIDs. The law outlaws overt discrimination based on genetics, but the reality of society is one similar to the Reconstruction South and Jim Crow. Tacit acceptance of a genetic underclass -- with diminishing demographics (and political power) due to the rapid adoption of genetic intervention -- but with subtle and not so subtle social "selection processes" inevitably at work.
For example, Vincent works hard to improve his skills and knowledge so that he can become a celestial navigator. His attempts at employment are consistently foiled based on drug testing which also reveals his genetic status. A more "qualified" applicant is chosen. His only recourse is manual unskilled labor, thus his short stint of employment as a janitor at the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
Selection occurs not just in employment, but in mate selection as well. Today women will run a background check on potential mates to determine their (criminal?) past or economic prospects. In the film, they do the same for unseen genetic qualities -- thus Vincent's dates eventually migrate to Anton based upon their surreptitious collection and testing of genetic material.
Why would these women ever accept the economic consequences of an IN-VALID's prospects? Why would they opt for a reduced quality of life based on their spouse's potential susceptibility to untreatable ailments or reduced life expectancy? They want a quality partner with a comparable chance for a lengthy high quality life together, similar or better offspring and mitigation of risk. Any reasonable person would desire the same, with the vast majority willing to fudge a little with respect to the "means" in order to maximize the "ends."
Vincent is marginalized in both his professional and personal life -- reduced to the permanent underclass, his dreams of space travel unrealized or unrealizable, alone and without prospects -- yet remains resolved. He is not defeated. He works, saves his money and spends every moment of free time educating himself or working out. He constantly goes without and always pushes himself.
He resorts to a "borrowed ladder" in the form of Jerome Eugene Morrow, a paraplegic willing to provide skin, hair, blood and urine samples to Vincent on an ongoing basis so that Vincent might represent himself as Jerome, a VALID with "Eugene's" genetics and Vincent's hard earned knowledge and skills. Vincent's resolve is further demonstrated by his having both shin bones surgically severed and reset with titanium rods, increasing his height 2" to match Eugene's genetic profile for height. The scars are explained as being exactly the height of the front fender of a '99 Chrysler LeBaron.
Vincent's heartbeat during tests is a recording of Eugene's, resulting in the lab tech Lamar's comment "Six miles later it's still beating like a Goddamn metronome. I could play piano by that heartbeat of his." Meanwhile Vincent's actual heartbeat is over 220 as he masks extreme fatigue, lactic acid buildup and oxygen deprivation by sheer force of will, confident in public but collapsing in private once it is over. Only extremes of discipline and training allow him to pull off this ruse.
However his prowess as a celestial navigator is not faked, as evidenced by this assessment: "I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a hundred thousand keystrokes. Phenomenal. (placing a hand on Jerome's shoulder) It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan." Note the "...like you..." instead of "...someone with your skills..." or "...someone with your knowledge..." This distinction is the critical take away of this exchange. The script is full of undercurrents as subtle and deep as this minor inflection.
However as much as the film is at its surface about big ideas -- about institutional and societal discrimination -- it ultimately reveals itself to be about the relationships between its characters. About Vincent/Anton, Vincent/Irene, Vincent/Lamar, and Vincent/Eugene... and how their relationships are framed by these larger issues.
Gattaca is a 1997 film written and directed by Andrew M. Niccol. It was his first feature film -- although he was an accomplished director of commercials -- and was followed by The Truman Show and In Time, among others. It falls into the genre of science fiction, and is set in the near future. Genetic technology is ubiquitous, but was just becoming accepted at the time of the protagonist's birth.
Vincent is conceived and carried to term without intervention via genetic technologies that select or modify zygotes prior to cell division. The original script called this a "faith birth," although the term "IN-VALID," pronounced like the word "invalid" in "an invalid driver's license," is used more prominently in the movie. Vincent has varying propensities for genetically-influenced issues such as aggression, obesity, and attention-deficit disorder, which remain untreatable in an age where the obvious solution is for them to be eradicated by genetically selecting them out of existence. He has a genetic heart condition which results in a 99% chance of a 30.5-year life expectancy. His parents' awareness of this causes them to treat him as an invalid his entire childhood and to stress his limitations instead of his potential.
Vincent's younger brother, Anton, is genetically enhanced, and therefore VALID. The process of his genetic selection is described in more detail in an earlier script, including the fact that his parents had to save every dime for two years in order to afford the process, but were unable to afford enhancements such as the "innate" ability to play the piano or understand higher mathematics.
Anton and Vincent are rivals -- most tellingly at open ocean swimming -- with Anton's enhanced physicality and Vincent's heart condition leading to predictable results, at least during childhood. Anton stands indifferently by as Vincent leaves home at sixteen, disappearing into the genetic underclass of day laborers, housecleaners and sanitation workers.
Anton is a child of privilege and an adult who displays many of the markers of childhood, perhaps because he never had to face adversity in his own life. As lead investigator of a murder committed at the corporation where Vincent, and later Jerome, is employed, these qualities surface. Due to an errant eyelash, Vincent (the IN-VALID) becomes a suspect. Anton searches for him, or any genetic traces of him, without revealing that they are related, and without initially suspecting that Vincent is posing as VALID.
Society is divided into IN-VALIDs and VALIDs. The law outlaws overt discrimination based on genetics, but the reality of society is one similar to the Reconstruction South and Jim Crow. Tacit acceptance of a genetic underclass -- with diminishing demographics (and political power) due to the rapid adoption of genetic intervention -- but with subtle and not so subtle social "selection processes" inevitably at work.
For example, Vincent works hard to improve his skills and knowledge so that he can become a celestial navigator. His attempts at employment are consistently foiled based on drug testing which also reveals his genetic status. A more "qualified" applicant is chosen. His only recourse is manual unskilled labor, thus his short stint of employment as a janitor at the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
Selection occurs not just in employment, but in mate selection as well. Today women will run a background check on potential mates to determine their (criminal?) past or economic prospects. In the film, they do the same for unseen genetic qualities -- thus Vincent's dates eventually migrate to Anton based upon their surreptitious collection and testing of genetic material.
Why would these women ever accept the economic consequences of an IN-VALID's prospects? Why would they opt for a reduced quality of life based on their spouse's potential susceptibility to untreatable ailments or reduced life expectancy? They want a quality partner with a comparable chance for a lengthy high quality life together, similar or better offspring and mitigation of risk. Any reasonable person would desire the same, with the vast majority willing to fudge a little with respect to the "means" in order to maximize the "ends."
Vincent is marginalized in both his professional and personal life -- reduced to the permanent underclass, his dreams of space travel unrealized or unrealizable, alone and without prospects -- yet remains resolved. He is not defeated. He works, saves his money and spends every moment of free time educating himself or working out. He constantly goes without and always pushes himself.
He resorts to a "borrowed ladder" in the form of Jerome Eugene Morrow, a paraplegic willing to provide skin, hair, blood and urine samples to Vincent on an ongoing basis so that Vincent might represent himself as Jerome, a VALID with "Eugene's" genetics and Vincent's hard earned knowledge and skills. Vincent's resolve is further demonstrated by his having both shin bones surgically severed and reset with titanium rods, increasing his height 2" to match Eugene's genetic profile for height. The scars are explained as being exactly the height of the front fender of a '99 Chrysler LeBaron.
Vincent's heartbeat during tests is a recording of Eugene's, resulting in the lab tech Lamar's comment "Six miles later it's still beating like a Goddamn metronome. I could play piano by that heartbeat of his." Meanwhile Vincent's actual heartbeat is over 220 as he masks extreme fatigue, lactic acid buildup and oxygen deprivation by sheer force of will, confident in public but collapsing in private once it is over. Only extremes of discipline and training allow him to pull off this ruse.
However his prowess as a celestial navigator is not faked, as evidenced by this assessment: "I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a hundred thousand keystrokes. Phenomenal. (placing a hand on Jerome's shoulder) It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan." Note the "...like you..." instead of "...someone with your skills..." or "...someone with your knowledge..." This distinction is the critical take away of this exchange. The script is full of undercurrents as subtle and deep as this minor inflection.
However as much as the film is at its surface about big ideas -- about institutional and societal discrimination -- it ultimately reveals itself to be about the relationships between its characters. About Vincent/Anton, Vincent/Irene, Vincent/Lamar, and Vincent/Eugene... and how their relationships are framed by these larger issues.