Wouldn't every parent want to ensure that their child was perfect and had the attributes of physical attractiveness, intelligence and athletic prowess to be able to do whatever he or she wanted in life? If so, why is the society portrayed in this film so devoid of happiness, vitality and fun?

Society that holds this views are devoid of happiness, vitality and fun because this goals or dreams of our parents to have all in one (superkid) is just impossible and when a parent is not seeing what they really wnat in their children, it brings sadness, nagging and even criticism

Explanation: Every parents want their child to be super intelligent, medical sound with no disorder, resourceful and others but humans are not wired to be that way. We are all created with one or more unique ability so that we can rely on each other but humans especially parents wants more. When their kids are not performing well in school like others, they start nagging and sometimes comparing the child with those intelligent ones, killing the child self esteem by mean words. the child may grow up living a life that is reckless and also of hate and resentment.

Some parents even believe that they know what their child want best so they try to push the child toward their own created goal but really we do not really know what is the best for this growing population. A study was started by some scientist on editing of Gene. Parents would want to edit the genes of their chil before it is born but what if in so doing, some other useful ones are Tampered with or a greatest scientist in future is edited to be a musician based on parents preference. Due to the fact that some parents are not fulfilled, they are not happy and children most times copy their parents character and they therefore breeds another generation of unhappiness.