Stereotypes In The Film 'Gattaca'

In the world we live in today, it is visibly evident that we as an entire population, created a fantasy social class in where image is everything. Through the social media's regulation of what is "the look," they are actually manipulating the population to think that the only way to be excepted is to look a certain way. In my opinion, because of the way social media exercises biopower through the controlling images of how the body is "supposed" to look, it is actually contributing to the way our future could end up becoming. I believe this idea can be portrayed through the film Gattaca, a dystopian society where being genetically engineered to have the perfect genes makes you superior to those who are not. Using the concept of biopower,

In Gattaca, where the unethical become the norm that's also evident in our society but more directed at the “perfect body.” With the focus of monitoring and constructing the “perfect” or the “healthiest” bodies we as a population are now excepting this to be the “normal” human behavior to obsess over being healthy but now its getting to a point where its turning unhealthy.4 For example, women portrayed in the media and how young girls are being told that only the prettiest girls are thin like models. Foucault had developed the idea that “the state which had progressively taken as its task the “care” of the population in all its dimensions may also be massacre it.” This means even with all the good social services we have such as healthcare and welfare we also have systems in place that actually destroy what it set out to fix. An example of this in affect are the mentally ill or people who society deems as deviant are seen as a threat to desirable social order and a challenge to the basic norms and values of society. These people are selected out of mainstream society and they are no longer viewed as an asset to the rest of the population who is. In this process, public health systems are imposing on the public what is normal and what is considered abnormal leaving people to unconsciously exert

This doesn’t have to be a bad thing it could very much be beneficial to our society like social services. With more risk and uncertainty in the world the more the government puts out internal systems that cause greater surveillance and control promotion for prevention. Its is the country using its abilities to protect the lives of its people like managing health care and public health services. The Public health movements and campaigns are a way for the government to exercise biopower, regulating and using surveillance powers to promote health using medicine, education and science. Vaccines are example of biopower and the governments control and regulation of medicine to the population. When disease and illness such as HIV/AIDS surfaced the unknowing of the cause at that time terrified the public and that resulted in the government stepping in to take action. The goal was how to promote healthier lives turning this major concern for public health into a national policy meaning that the government can now intervene on the behalf of the population in their best interests of how to become healthy and stay that way. This social health service is enacted upon the public in order for the government to protect its citizens and remain strong they need to fulfill their duty to promote