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(just how much British ale was guz-
zled on this film?). You've got to be a
bit soused going into a movie like
this to love it, but if you don't love it,
; -there is a consolation prize: Cameron
Diaz.
She's got a bad hair job -in one
episode, which ages her a decade, and
a dumb wig in another. But she has a
winning ability to cover her bets, to
turn jokers into aces, and she beats the
movie at its scattered game.
As in Feeling Minnesota, we get the
sense that Diaz is better than her given
,frmaterial; she is certainly a stronger
presence than McGregor, whose star
shine is boyishly twinkling.
While he's simply being cute, Diaz
is being peachy and yummy and ...
but don't let me get started again.
Rated R.
* 1/2

Come, 2001, The Thing, Solaris, Blade
Runner and so on). By that score,
Gattaca looks major. Its flaws do not
keep it from being one of the year's
most beautiful constructions.
Set in "the not-too-distant future,"
Andrew Niccol's movie was filmed
among the futuristic buildings of
today. The best site is Frank Lloyd
Wright's Marin County Civic Center,
almost 40 years old but still a model
for the next century (a warmer model
than, say, the new Getty Center in
L.A.).
Niccol's theme is basic sci-fi. In a
society stratified by advances in
genetic breeding, the resultant caste
system divides those born engineered,
potentially "perfect," from those born
the old, careless way, fraught with fal-
libility. For Vincent, played in matu-
rity by Ethan Hawke, not being an
— Reviewed by David Elliott elitist means servitude — as part of a
janitor detail headed by Ernest
Borgnine.
Vincent wants to be an astronaut,
GATTACA
rising in one of the lovely rocket
It is sad when a movie is suffocat-
blasts above the space center of the
ed by style, especially when the style
Gattaca Corp. (the Wright marvel).
is the remarkable thing about the
He has a personal motive: rivalry
' film. The top sci-fi films have all had
with his genetically ace brother,
a strong look (Metropolis, Things to
Anton (Loren
Dean).
To get in, as
-6
more than a janitor,
Vincent fakes the
c a identity of Jerome
(Jude Law), an elite
- .4- genius and athlete
crippled by a sui-
cide attempt.
Embittered, Jerome
hates his world, and
he gives Vincent
urine samples and
"fingerprint blood
sachets" to fool the
bio-scan systems
overseen by the
chilly CEO of
Gattaca (Gore
Vidal). It feels like
the 2030s warping
back to the 1930s
the security team
led by Alan Arkin is
like gumshoes from
the Art Moderne
era, more retro than
the Wright atrium
curves and porthole
windows.
Shot in yellowish
light, so that the
world seems a twi-
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke star in Gattaca.
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