Gattaca

This Text is a screenwriting of a film entitled "Gattaca" which dates back  to 1997. The Author, Andrew Niccol shows us through this science  fiction movie, the issues of genetic engineering in a totalitarian  environment and raises here the question of the consequence of genetic  manipulations.

 This text makes us get in medias res into the scene. In fact, the scene  takes place in the middle of a conversation when a geneticist announces  to a couple, Maria and Antonio, that they have to select the embryo  which best corresponds to their whishes. So we may assume, thanks to the  several keywords: "embryo", "fertilization", "geneticist", "select",  "embryo" that an in-vitro procedure and fertilization must have occured  some time before. We can also notice that the geneticist doesn't know the couple very well  ("noting the couple's names from data along the edge of th screen"),  they are just one couple among several others (it's like a big  industry).