Dystopia In Minority Report

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 proves that without due process, or fair punishment, an established government turns into one that is only harmful for its people to live in. In both dystopian settings, the police system pre-emptively judges a criminal, thus suspending the idea of habeas corpus, or innocent until proven guilty. In Nineteen Eighty Four, Orwell’s thought police capture those who act differently, without reason. In doing so, they attempt to stop crime before it starts, and thus preserve the government of Oceania. They encroach on personal …show more content…
In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, those accused of thinking differently than the government wishes are immediately imprisoned. There, the political criminals are taken to Room 101, where they are tortured into conformity. This ultimately shatters the person responsible for divergence, innocent or guilty. The sheer amount of pain involved is shown through the character of winston, who was tortured in every imaginable form, until he was a broken man. In the Minority Report, those who are predicted to be future murderers are placed into a jail-like place. There, the convicts are psychologically tortured with images and videos pertaining to the murders. The psychological damage done to them is enough to deter others from committing similar crimes. Thus, the cruel and unusual punishment offered by each of these programmes are enough to keep the society in