Idle 'Gattaca' Thought ...

[andraste]

... you know, it's never occurred to me to question this before, but I've just finished an assignment on the film and I was wondering: is there a non-homoerotic explanation for the gift Jerome/Eugene gives Vincent/Jerome at the very end?

I've always thought the script started life as a love story about two guys and later had Uma Thurman forced into it with a crowbar, but it's possible the director did not expect the audience to be thinking that.