Gattaca leads you to believe it's about the social consequences of genetically engineering people. It starts out with a couple of quotes about the wisdom of mucking around with Mother Nature, and it, originally, ends with a list of genetically "defective" people, like JFK and Einstein, who might never have been born in the world Gattaca depicts.

But, I'm not sure genetic engineering is really what this movie is about. For one thing, Gattaca shows us that it's not really about the future. The world it presents doesn't even try to look like it. It looks like the '60s, seen through a nice... read the rest.