Quite simply one of the greatest movies of all time. Nietzschian, Faustian, spiritual. 
Can’t even imagine how boring and moralistic a movie about eugenic discrimination would be if it was made today - Ethan Hawke’s character would be an activist of some sort demanding equal opportunities for “invalids.”
In Gattaca, the MC accepts that the world is unfair but still decides to OVERCOME it, to overcome himself and his own limitations. It’s about his individual journey, not social reform.
“There is no gene for the human spirit” - this is a story about the WILL TO POWER, the Faustian urge that compels our protagonist to climb to the stars despite the whole world being against him.
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