There's no gene for fate.
"Consider God's handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked?" - Ecclesiastes 7:13
"I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to." - Willard Gaylin
I not only think that this is an amazing movie, but I also truly feel it is the most important movie for every person under the age of thirty. Genetic engineering and genetic discrimination ("genoism" as the movie calls it) is coming. Sooner rather than later. It is not a far-fetched idea that my daughter will have the option to review her boyfriends genetic profile before agreeing to marry him, or choose the expressed traits of her future child from the genes available. This movie is the reason I teach science. You may not ever use calculus, write papers, or need to know who the president was during the Spanish-American War, but you will need to make important decisions about your family's life and the laws of our country based upon a working knowledge of Biology and, specifically, genetics.
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law all give amazing performances. Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture (also used in "THX-1138") gives this movie a super-believable sense of (as the title card says) "the not too distant future".
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