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... cuts to a shot of inside the Gattaca building. It shows a huge metal escalator with many humans on it. The escalator completely dwarfs the humans. There is the welcome message played over the loudspeaker, which says ‘Welcome to Gattaca’, in a computerized voice. All the people inside the building are shown lacking individuality. This is done by dressing them in the same, dark suits and showing them all moving the same way on the escalator. When the camera cuts to Vincent, the audience can see straightaway that he is different from the rest and that he has emotions, by his facial expression, what he is wearing, and the way his hair is brushed. The complete situation of the Gattaca world is not totally obvious during the opening scene, but it is easy to see that it is a world controlled by DNA testing, as shown by Vincent when he uses false fingerprints, urine, and blood to pass identity checks, and when he sprinkles skin flakes from a little container over his computer keyboard after removing his own. Andrew Niccol shows the inside of the Gattaca building as gloomy and dehumanised by his use of black and grey colours. The images that stick in the heads of the audience at the end of the opening sequence are the images of space travel and the furnace in the shower, looking like a rocket taking off, foreshadow the end of the film where Vincent achieves his goal against all the odds. The other important scene is the staircase scene, which involves the characters of Jerome, Anton, and Irene. The start of the scene shows Anton and Irene driving to Jerome’s house. The car is making an electric kind of sound. Andrew Niccol does this to continually enforce that the movie is futuristic, but not too far into the future because the car still looks the same as cars today. Jerome knows that they are coming and he must make it up the staircase. Niccol uses a high angle shot to show the huge journey that the crippled J...