Eugenics From The Cinematographic World

Eugenics from the cinematographic world

The issue of eugenics is very controversial. On the one hand, we see how in films, eugenics is taken as a solution to all problems that revolve around genetics (diseases, defects, skills, personality, etc.) But, on the other hand, this type of interventions developed by and for humans will have errors, in addition to all the ethical questions in which this issue is discussed. However, at the end of the analyz.

First we must clarify that it is the eugenics, Francis Galton proposed the term “eugenics” in the year1883, in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty, to designate that science that would allow to modify (improve) the hereditary features in the human species. Eugenics comes from the Greek εὖγένος and means "good birth" or "born well";Francis Galton is considered the father of eugenics, guided by the ideological contributions of his cousin Charles Darwin helped him generate the bases, although clearly the eugenics presents antecedents from the ancient Greeks, Romans and Indians, who maintained practices focused on theImprovement of the high elites of its residents, through the selection of couple, abortion, infanticide, education, etc.

In the film universe there are several films dedicated to defending or attacking eugenics, a clear example is the movie Star Trek. In the darkness of the year 2013, in which Benedict Cumberbatch’s character: Khan, is a superman that was genetically modified and after 300 years he was awakened with suspended animation and the sense of eugenics in this case is used for a greater good, since although he is one of the main villains of this saga, in the final part of the film his genetically improved blood helps to revive Kirk, here we can see how the eugenics positively helped a person.

However, the Gattaca movie. Genetic experiment of the year of 1997 is responsible for showing us a future in which there is discrimination since most children are conceived in vitro and with genetic selection techniques, Vincent, is one of the last children who were conceived in a wayNatural, it is born with a heart deficiency and not lr give a life expectancy greater than thirty years of life. He is considered an invalid and, as such, he is condemned to perform the most unpleasant jobs.Another is the case of his brother Anton, who has received a great genetic inheritance that guarantees multiple opportunities.