¡¥Gattaca¡¦ is a film made in the late 1990¡¦s by author-director Andrew Niccol, which appropriates the underclass through the portrayal of a society classed by its people¡¦s DNA. Niccol uses the film to express his concerns of social distinction from how he interpreted the breakthroughs in DNA research. This is emphasised by film critic Rob Blackwelder, who comments ¡¥Niccol knows we humans consider ourselves the pinnacle of evolution and he carefully sustains an unsettling atmosphere by making it perfectly clear we are a step down on the food chain to the evolutionary aristocracy in this test-tube world¡¦. He depicts a detailed futuristic setting where a person¡¦s DNA can be used to determine life expectancy and their potential, which ultimately becomes a resume for life ¡¥¡Kdiscrimination down to a science¡¦.

The underclass exists within every society, in fiction and in reality. The Utopian slaves, the Gileadian Handmaids, Marthas and Econowives, and the ¡¥degenerates¡¦ are all classes that are exploited by the social elites. The underclass and the social elites are both required for each society to function, but this reflects the inevitable inequality that always leaves a class to be exploited.

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