Gattaca is a future dystopia in which everyone is strictly controlled according to their genetic profile. Only those with superior genes can fulfill superior roles in society. Vincent Freeman, a genetic misfit, attempts to trick the system in order to acccess the life he is forbidden from having.
Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman in Gattaca: "I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science."
Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini in Gattaca: " 'Unacceptable likelihood of heart failure.' I think that's what the manual says. The only trip I'll take in space is around the sun on this satellite right here.
Jude Law as Jerome Eugene Morrow in Gattaca: "I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body - you lent me your dream."
- Movie
- Gattaca
- Year
- 1997
- Character
- Dr Lamar
- Actor
- Xander Berkeley
Dr. Lamar is the doctor who Vincent regularly has to visit for his DNA security spot-checks. Vincent has to continually pass these tests by trickery – you’ll see in the film how he does that. But there is more to Dr. Lamar than meets the eye. He has picked up on one or two observations about Vincent along the way, which could be dangerous. However, despite his security-cleared position he has a lot of sympathy for Vincent’s dilemma, because he has a son in a similar predicament…
Gattaca – Dr. Lamar Quotes
Prior to launch, Vincent is confronted with an unexpected urine test without one of Jerome’s samples. He is going to get found out for sure:
Vincent: What’s this?
Dr. Lamar: New policy. What’s the matter? Flight got you nervous?
Vincent: Well, there’s a problem Lamar…
Dr. Lamar: I never did tell you about my son, did I? He’s a big fan of yours.
Vincent: Just remember that I was as good as any, and better than most…
Dr. Lamar: He wants to apply here.
Vincent: I could’ve gone up and back and nobody would’ve been the wiser.
Dr. Lamar: Unfortunately, my son’s not all that they promised. But then, who knows what he could do. Right?
[The test reveals Vincent as an invalid]
Dr. Lamar: For future reference, right-handed men don’t hold it with their left. It’s just one of those things.
[Lamar overrides the results with Jerome's valid ID]
Dr. Lamar: You don’t want to miss your flight, Vincent.
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Gattaca
Cast and Characters
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Loren Dean as Anton Freeman in Gattaca: "Our parents both died thinking they'd outlived you. I had my doubts."
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Alan Arkin as Detective Hugo in Gattaca: "Hello everyone, nice to see you, I am your detective for the evening. Please don't leave the premises. I said please don't leave the premises. Am I speaking in some kind of strange foreign language?"
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Gore Vidal as Director Josef in Gattaca: "I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a million keystrokes. Phenomenal. It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan."
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Xander Berkeley as Dr. Lamar in Gattaca: "You don't want to miss your flight, Vincent."
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Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini in Gattaca: " 'Unacceptable likelihood of heart failure.' I think that's what the manual says. The only trip I'll take in space is around the sun on this satellite right here.
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Jude Law as Jerome Eugene Morrow in Gattaca: "I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body - you lent me your dream."
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Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman in Gattaca: "I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science."
Random Dystopia Quotes
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Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element: "I was just on my way over to see you, when this big fare fell in my lap. You know, one of these really big fares that you just can't resist?"
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Stephen Rea as Eric Finch in V For Vendetta: "If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand people... would you really want to know?"
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David Krumholtz as Mr. Universe in Serenity: "You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere."
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Heinrich George as Grot in Metropolis: "Where are your children??! The city lies underwater, the shafts are completely flooded -!! Who told you to attack the machines, you idiots? Without them you'll all die!!"
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Patrick Magee as Frank Alexander in A Clockwork Orange: "Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries. The thin end of the wedge. Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism."
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Robert Taylor as Agent Jones in The Matrix: "It has already begun."
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Nigel Hawthorne as Raymond Cocteau in Demolition Man: "Well I must say that whacking, whatever it is, sounds most disagreeable."
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From Emmanuel Goldstein's book in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous."
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Julie Christie as Clarisse in Fahrenheit 451: "Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?"
I’m curious – in this final scene, how does Dr Lamar know Vincent’s real name?