Gattaca
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Continuity mistake: Irene's hair changes in the first scene. When arriving at Gattaca, it's a side part low hairstyle. When she's at her workstation, it's pulled straight back into a high bun. A few minutes later, when she's speaking with Vincent as they watch a rocket launch through the skylight, it's back to the initial style, a low French twist. (00:04:39 - 00:05:30)

Continuity mistake: When Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman are escaping form the party, the sleeve of Ethan's suit is ripped under the armpits when he hits the cop but in a few seconds you see his sleeve completely fixed. (01:11:40)

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Continuity mistake: Irene's hair changes in her final scene. She's wearing a tighter doughnut-shaped bun at Gattaca, when she's picked up by Anton to visit Jerome's home. When they reach the house, her hair is done quite differently, in a much larger and looser bun. (01:18:11 - 01:25:19)

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Mistakes

Revealing mistake: When Jude Law needs to pull himself up the flight of stairs to reach the intercom, you can see him use his hips, despite the fact that he is paralyzed from the waist down.

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Quotes

Jerome: We have to get drunk immediately.

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Trivia

Trivia: One of the biggest themes in this film is DNA and how it can be used (and misused) to give information about people. It's interesting that the name 'Gattaca' is spelled using only the letters which stand for the four nucleotide bases which comprise DNA: guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine. The word GATTACA looks like a short sequence of DNA.

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Questions

Question: When 'Jerome' has his blood tested with the syringe, and jumps up pretending to be in pain, he puts his own test tube down on the trolley, but the sample from his arm was in the syringe; why does the doctor not realise that it's not his? Is he in on it, or is the syringe suppose to be filling from the test tube, like the finger print capsules?

Bryn Charles

Chosen answer: Jerome does a little sleight of hand, switching the vials.

Greg Dwyer

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