NOKW - Gattaca

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Gattaca

Basic Plot:  This was that movie where Ethan Hawke plays a guy with a crappy heart who wants to be an astronaut or something and has to pretend to be Jude Law in order to do that.  It wasn't that bad.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Ethan Hawke doesn't even really look like Jude Law but was able to pass as him somehow.  The fact that Ethan Hawke actually thinks that he is living his dream and not just endangering the mission because of his crappy heart.  The fact that at the end Ethan Hawke is caught and the guy testing him lets him get away with it, but Ethan doesn't even thank him.  The fact that the rest of the movie doesn't have that many far-fetched things I'm going to point out except the biggest glaring plot hole of all....

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that the company Ethan Hawke goes to work for has the technology to instantly check anyone's DNA to see if they are genetically adequate to work for them, but doesn't bother to check their applicant's medical history.  In case you haven't seen this flick, Ethan Hawke is pretending to be Jude Law because Ethan has a birth defect that would disqualify him from space flight.  Jude Law is genetically perfect for the job but was injured in an accident and no longer has the use of his legs.  So, Jude Law gives Ethan samples of his DNA so that Ethan can trick the space company into thinking he is now a perfect candidate to man a mission into space (or something like that).  We are led to believe that this company can instantly check fake Jude Law's DNA, yet they don't seem to bother to check his medical history to see if anything else might be wrong with the guy because they would definitely find a big red flag when the guy they think is Jude Law is walking on his own two feet.  Don't you think any company that is looking to send people into space should at least take a glance at their employees' past?  Wouldn't you want to know if your employee has had some sort of surgery that wouldn't show up in their DNA test that might hinder them from succeeding in their mission?  And wouldn't not having the use of your legs count as a big no-no for anything doesn't involve a desk job?  How stupid is this company if they think all they need out of their applicants is a simple DNA test?  This movie should have ended as soon as someone looked at Ethan Hawke, then Jude Law's medical chart, and then laughed him out of the office.  I am not okay with that.

"They don't look anything alike, but someone fooled a big time company."