The nature of freedom and free will is a concept that is apparent in the film Minority Report. The film battles with both the idea of determinism and free will. It shows everything is caused and there is no changing it as seen in Taylor’s Determinism but also shows the struggle that at any moment man has a choice to be whatever it is he/she wants to be as seen in Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism.
The movie Minority Report is set in a world where the main character John Anderton is the leader of pre crime agency that arrested people before they commit a murder using the physic ability of three individuals. These three individuals are genetically mutated and they see the future and this future is recorded through a software that shows …show more content…
This is especially complicated since Anderton has never met the person he suppose to murder in the future. When the movie reaches this point it makes it a problematizes the idea of determinism and free will, Since Anderton saw the future does he have a choice not to follow in that path that as Sartre states or is he ultimately destined to commit the murder. At this point in the movie its almost as if Taylor becomes Sartre. Anderton who so heavily believed that what he did was right and that these people he detained because they were going to commit a murder were ultimately going to murder is at a dilemma with his point of view. The audience witness Anderton believing that he not going to commit the murder and that the psychics who were once infallible to him now seem to be wrong to him.
Sartre point of view is even more evident when Anderton decides not to kill the man who is supposed to kill. The man who he thought murdered his child actually pulls the trigger in Andertons hands. This then shows that sartre 's point of view is evident. “ Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.” (Sartre, 5) This idea that man defines himself is explored when Anderton discovers he the next suspect he defines his future he decided not kill the person that he is suppose to have killed. …show more content…
The despair and forlornness that sartre describes is what 's left with Anderton. As Sartre describes we have the ultimate means to change anything that we are able to however we are there are things that are out of our reach to change. Andertons despair is exactly as Sartre describes because he can not nor does he have the means to control or change the future as he was able to in the beginning. “Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.” (Sartre, 9) Anderton therefore feels forlorn because there is nothing he can depend on or examine the outcomes of the future and he is ultimately
The movie Minority Report is set in a world where the main character John Anderton is the leader of pre crime agency that arrested people before they commit a murder using the physic ability of three individuals. These three individuals are genetically mutated and they see the future and this future is recorded through a software that shows …show more content…
This is especially complicated since Anderton has never met the person he suppose to murder in the future. When the movie reaches this point it makes it a problematizes the idea of determinism and free will, Since Anderton saw the future does he have a choice not to follow in that path that as Sartre states or is he ultimately destined to commit the murder. At this point in the movie its almost as if Taylor becomes Sartre. Anderton who so heavily believed that what he did was right and that these people he detained because they were going to commit a murder were ultimately going to murder is at a dilemma with his point of view. The audience witness Anderton believing that he not going to commit the murder and that the psychics who were once infallible to him now seem to be wrong to him.
Sartre point of view is even more evident when Anderton decides not to kill the man who is supposed to kill. The man who he thought murdered his child actually pulls the trigger in Andertons hands. This then shows that sartre 's point of view is evident. “ Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.” (Sartre, 5) This idea that man defines himself is explored when Anderton discovers he the next suspect he defines his future he decided not kill the person that he is suppose to have killed. …show more content…
The despair and forlornness that sartre describes is what 's left with Anderton. As Sartre describes we have the ultimate means to change anything that we are able to however we are there are things that are out of our reach to change. Andertons despair is exactly as Sartre describes because he can not nor does he have the means to control or change the future as he was able to in the beginning. “Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.” (Sartre, 9) Anderton therefore feels forlorn because there is nothing he can depend on or examine the outcomes of the future and he is ultimately