— Overview
The notes read the film as a picture of human-resource practice taken to an extreme, and they stay with Vincent at that barred door, and with what such hiring leaves out.
— Contents and key concepts
A 1997 future, and a door that will not open
The notes take up Gattaca, a science-fiction film from 1997, written and directed by Andrew Niccol. In its future, they write, genetic technique is so far along that many parents can have a child with “high” genes.
Vincent is born without that modification, as he is. In that society he is treated as holding inferior genes. He has a dream of going into space. To do that he would have to join the aerospace firm Gattaca. The firm, however, hires only those with superior genetic conditions, and he cannot enter by any formal route.
Hiring as a kind of human-resource work
The notes begin from a familiar present: firms spend time and money to find the “right” person, then train the people they have hired. That work, they write, is a kind of human-resource management.
Even when machines seem ready to replace people, they add, a firm still needs at least some human beings, and how those people are hired and looked after is tied to whether the firm stands or falls. Gattaca, in their reading, shows that practice in an extreme form.
What the method leaves out
The problem they mark in the film’s way of managing people is this: it does not sufficiently consider a person’s own qualities, or the job being hired for. A genetic screen stands in for that slower look.
They stay with Vincent at that barred door, and with that criticism of hiring. A longer form of the same Korean notes can be read on CampusDown.
Sources
- Student notes on the 1997 film Gattaca, read through Vincent and a firm that hires by genes.
Last updated 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
How do the notes place Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?
As a 1997 science-fiction film set in a future where genetic technique is highly developed, and many parents can have a child with “high” genes.
Who is Vincent in that world?
He is born as he is, without genetic modification, and so holds genes treated as inferior. He wants to go into space, which means joining the aerospace firm Gattaca, but the firm hires only those with superior genetic conditions, and he cannot enter by formal means.
What hiring problem do they mark?
A way of managing people that does not sufficiently consider a person’s own qualities, or the work being hired for. They keep that criticism close, and stay with the hiring door that will not open to him.
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