Gattaca

Watched the movie for the nth time last night.
If you haven’t seen Gattaca, do give it a try, you will be wonderfully surprised.

There is this scene/line in the movie that I can’t get enough of, and here is how it plays out:


Scene overview: Vincent (the main character who is naturally born with genetic heart flaws but refused to accept his fate as a degerate in the world) is racing his brother Anton (who is genetically engineered to have a better life and a higher social status) in a swim showdown towards the end of the movie:

Anton (panicing in the water): Vincent, we have to go back, we are too far out.

Vincent (shouting back): No! Anton, we are not stopping, keep going… You want to know how I did it? You want to know how I beat you? This is how I did it Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back…


That was a powerful scene.

So the moral of the story. (hit the pool and practice, hit the road and practice, hit the track and practice until you have nothing left and keep on going more..) that is how you do it! That is Life.