How is ambition shown in this film?
In the Film Gattaca Andrew Niccol, the writer and director, shows the concept of ambition through camera shots and angles. Niccol uses low shots to show authority or power and birds eye views and high shots to show weakness. As our protagonist, Vincent, works toward his dream of going to space the camera shots change to show his position in this modern society. Throughout the film we have a particular shot that shows the sky or sometimes stars as Vincent looks up to see the rockets of gattaca being launched. At the start of this film this view is obviously seen from below and this shows how small and weak Vincent is and how hard it will be to reach his goal. However one of the very last shots we see is when Vincent is in the rocket and has finally achieved his goal we see his face and then the shot changes to a view of the stars, in this shot it is clear the it is not taken from below and that Vincent is now equal to the Stars and his dreams. Niccol has used these shots purposely to show Vincent’s ambition and hard it was to achieve his dreams but how his ambition eventerly payed of and he reached his goal.