Minority Report

The Future of Technology Essay In the movie Minority Report, technology is quite advanced. Humans are also used as a technological object. The movie makes a prediction of what the United States will be like in about 50 years or so. Minority report also shows how technology shouldn’t be abused and how we shouldn’t take things for granted. As I had stated previously, humans are used as almost a sort of technological object. These are called “Pre-Cogs”. Pre-Cogs are a triplet of mutated humans.…

Danica R. Manabat ABM 12-E Minority Report Reflection Paper Minority Report is one intriguing movie that piqued my interest and left me thinking. The movie presents a new style of law enforcement of the police division called ‘Precrime’ is set in the future in the year 2054. The concept of precrime stimulates the idea of our future being predetermined for the reason that they seemingly arrest individuals who they have only predicted will commit murder in the near future. Through the use of the…

multitude of others is just. The issue is to be determined by the individual, it comes up to the how much someone values life. In a utilitarian view, everything must be done to protect the good of the masses. This is the situation that arose in Minority Report with Pre-Crime, by predicting murders and stopping them before they happened they prevented the anguish the murder created. Although they weren’t killed to prevent murder, the prisoner state they were placed in was almost as if their life…

Minority Report Packed full of action, mystery, and deception, Minority Report tells the story of the year 2054 in Washington D.C., where police utilize a psychic technology to convict murderers before their crime has been completed. The film Minority Report is categorized as a dramatic mystery and directed by Steven Spielberg in the year 2002. Tom Cruise, who plays the leader of Precrime, is convicted of murdering a man that he has never met. At the beginning of the movie, Tom’s character is…

In the film Minority Report, the ideas of a utopia are twisted into a somewhat dystopia. Similarly, in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, As crimes are stopped before they occur, those who would be considered innocent until proven otherwise, are now automatically assumed to be guilty. This procedure, although in some ways beneficial to the society as a whole, has the potential to become harmful if the accusations are made with the least bit of doubt. The police system of each dystopian society…

Russo, David M. Professor Okeh 2/16/15 Minority Report Questions 1. What makes and action moral or immoral? It depends on the initial actions though. If you are going to commit a crime that either hurts someone else or in that circumstance then it is immoral. To make an action moral would of course be the opposite of committing a crime and causes no hurt to another person. Just like with the pre-cogs predicting the future of people committing crimes before they happen. That makes moral…

English teacher thinks it is worth getting a spanking just so his sister would too. This was his happiness in the situation he was in. If you were told you were going to kill someone tomorrow, wouldn’t you do everything to stop it? In the movie “Minority Report” they know when murders are going to happen based on the visions of three teenagers. They believe that the pre-cogs are never wrong therefore they do not question their fallibility. They never tell the murders that they…

This concept does not only apply to the discovery of one’s own future. Sometimes, learning the fate of a loved one can force individuals to attempt to change it, often bringing forth a fate of their own. In the film Minority Report, Agatha compares her relationship to her mother, Anne Lively, to the Anderton’s relationship directly before Pre-crime busts into Lara, John’s ex-wife’s, house to arrest John. It was decided by Pre-Crime that none of the Neuroin babies would be returned, especially…

The movie Minority Report By steven Spielberg, highlights a possible future as predicted by Deleuze in his “Postscript on the Societies of Control”, as well as Foucault's theory of Biopolitics. A neo-noir science fiction thriller loosely based off a short story by Philip K. Dick. In terms of themes, story and character development the movie was ahead of its time. The plausibility of the technology was impressive 90% of technology used in the movie is most definitely within reach by the time of…

Upon initially reading the text "Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick the reader can infer that there is a power struggle going on between John Anderton and Ed Witwer. This perceived power struggle does not immediately make sense to the reader, however it later becomes an important part of the story. The system described also seems to predict the future in some way by using “precogs, capable of previewing future events and transferring orally that data to analytical machinery” (Dick 10) Therefore…