The breakdown of the justice system in Minority Report mirrors our own present and past as it incites Anderton into the confusion and self-dissolution that leads to the trappings of murder –accidental or intentional- but in such a way that the viewer feels comfortably admonished about our own history and present as it appears in the form of a mere future possibility. The film’s final scenes, featuring Anderton’s reunited family, alone in their private home, and the released precognitives, safely isolated from society, indicate that it is precisely the privatized, normalized subjectivity not only that we desire most but which is all that is
