anakin-padme-1 We have to ensure that people are meeting their potential.

anakin-padme-2 And exceeding it?

anakin-padme-3 No one exceeds his potential.

anakin-padme-4 lf he did?

anakin-padme-3 lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place

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      1 month ago

      I’ll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you’re young okay

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      The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC’s specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?