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GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

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34.<br />

INT. HOUSING PROJECT - APARTMENT. DAY.<br />

JEROME practises writing with his right hand, trying to<br />

replicate Eugene's signature.<br />

EUGENE<br />

(wheeling <strong>by</strong>, looking<br />

over Jerome's<br />

shoulder at the<br />

signature)<br />

It needs work.<br />

JEROME<br />

(rueful)<br />

You had to be a right-hander.<br />

EUGENE<br />

Noone orders southpaws anymore.<br />

INT. HOUSING PROJECT - APARTMENT. DAY.<br />

A pair of spectacles lie on the bed. JEROME, still wearing<br />

his twin casts, sits behind an optometrist's portable<br />

examining device. GERMAN hovering in the background, an<br />

OPTOMETRIST custom-fits JEROME with gossamer thin contact<br />

lenses.<br />

JEROME (VO)<br />

Myopia is a dead giveaway - one of<br />

the earliest and most justifiable<br />

of the quality-of-life<br />

corrections. Anybody with<br />

impaired vision is certain to be<br />

suffering from all the other<br />

deficiencies of a "nonadvantaged"<br />

birth.<br />

GERMAN<br />

(inspecting the lens<br />

in Jerome's eye)<br />

It's no good. I can see an edge.<br />

He may as well walk in there with<br />

a cane.<br />

INT. HOUSING PROJECT - APARTMENT. DAY.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Optometrist has been replaced in the living room with a<br />

BLACK MARKET DENTIST who bonds JEROME's small, gapped teeth<br />

to match EUGENE's perfectly straight, white picket fences.

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