I went to an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. They explained that riding elephants is incredibly stressful for the elephant’s back, and that in order to train them to obey, torture is usually involved.
I’m against zoos as well. I know some do good work with rehabilitation and such (and we should support them), but a lot just capture animals for our enjoyment. Even if they’re not explicitly mistreated, it’s pretty cruel to just keep them in a cage for the rest of their lives.
It’s Niccol. I was briefly confused and thought that I somehow missed Nichelle Nichols in Gattaca.
That said, is Gattaca forgotten? And what was wrong with his later works? I haven’t seen them all, but the ones I’ve seen have been pretty good. They’re all pretty much a bleak and dire warning about our future, and Gattaca may have done it best, but there’s nothing wrong with his other films.