Social hierarchies are social differentiations based on education level, training, knowledge,and skills. The 1997 film Gattaca details the effects of determining a society's structure based solely on human capability testing, in which test results decide the fate of each individual with little to no freedom of choice. The film combines science and social hierarchies to argue that science and technology have the ability to create social hierarchies that go beyond educational, racial, or economic status and have the ability to manipulate and create new hierarchies through genetic manipulation, but will never be able to effectively build social structure because of individuals’ determinism and inevitable motivation to break free, like Vincent