List three things Vincent did on a daily basis to maintain his “Jerome” identity. He puts on contacts to match the eye color. Scrubs all the excess skin and hair off him. Places some blood concealed on his finger tip.

5) What two major surgeries did Vincent have to enhance his genetic “imperfections?” He had surgery to lengthen his legs and straighten his teeth.

Vincent wears a false fingertip loaded with a sample of Jerome’s blood to pass the entry screen every day. He scours himself every morning to remove as much dead skin as possible, gathering skin flakes and hair samples from Jerome to sprinkle about his spotless workstation.

To pass off as Jerome for the daily biometric identification procedure at Gattaca, he even scrubs off and incinerates any of his own body hair or nails, anything that could be used to trace back to his original invalid DNA.

Before his flight he takes a urine sample and fails it because it wasn’t Jerome’s pee.

The ending of Gattaca shows Vincent finally launching to space and Jerome killing himself in a furnace. I just realized that Vincent doesn’t survive the trip to Jupiter because of his heart condition.

What was the 2 nd piece of evidence that Vincent left behind? His skin 21. How does Vincent/Jerome get past the blood test? He has a test tube of blood 22.

1. Why was Vincent pretending to be Jerome Morrow? He was pretending to be Jerome Morrow because he was a fugitive.

Jerome provides Vincent with the DNA ( skin cells, hair, fingerprints, blood, urine, etc) he needs for Gattaca. What does Irene do with Vincent’s hair? She has his DNA sequenced from his hair to see if he’s all that people really say he is. What was interesting about the piano player?

As ever, Vincent has one of Jerome’s blood pouches attached to the tip of his finger and so passes security. He also takes out his contact lenses so as not to attract suspicion: a valid of his status would only have 20/20 vision.

The genetically inferior are called “in-valid”s7. Why does Irene give Vincent a piece of her hair? Irene gave a piece of hair to have it sequenced. This showed that she was being completely honest with him.

“Jerome, Jerome the metronome. You can play the piano by his heartbeat.”

How does Vincent pass the unexpected urine test before boarding the space shuttle? He had Jerome’s sample with him. The man conducting the test switched the result.

Why do you think Lamar’s son was a “big fan” of Vincent? Lamars son had many imperfections which makes him like vincent in a way. 15. There was a lot of symbolism in this movie especially with ladders and stairways.

He has 12 fingers. 21. What does Jerome (Vincent) dispose of before he is stopped by the police? contacts.

As Vincent/Jerome dresses to leave, Irene notices the scar on his legs, which he, tells her is the “exact height” of an errant Chrysler’s bumper that nearly killed him (borrowing a page from Eugene’s book).

“Each day I would dispose of as much loose skin, fingernails and hairs as possible, to limit how much of my in-valid self I would leave in the valid world.”