Minority Report

The movie Minority Report begins by introducing the audience to a world where murders are essentially nonexistent in Washington DC. A system called PreCrime is used which consists of a group of three mutated humans called Precogs that are able to predict murders before they occur. This information would, in turn, be provided to the PreCrime police, where they would then arrest the suspect and place them in a virtual reality. However, though this system seems fairly accurate, there are specific assumptions that are made about humans and their capabilities, specifically involving the concept of free will that will inevitably lead to PreCrime’s downfall. With the system of PreCrime, the main assumption it operates on is that the actions of humans…

“The Minority Report” (1956), by Philip K. Dick is a collection of short stories divided into four volumes, Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002) is, the produced film to help illustrate the science-fiction novel and is clearly, one of few films that transition most highlights the ideas of surveillance of citizens and preventive justice. Although it is undeniable that both ideas are taken from the original story by Dick, in the film they are highlighted and modified, to some extent thanks…

Published in 1956 by Philip K. Dick, Minority Report has made itself quite a name. After being adapted several times the one that stuck out the most was the film Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002. The film took a radical approach, as shown by the change in plotlines and major characters. First of all, major plot points were different in the film than they were in the story, For example, Anderton is supposed to kill a man named Leopold Kaplan, but in the film, the man is…

Fate: Sealed yet Alterable It is human nature to crave knowledge. People cannot help it, and oftentimes it is a favorable quality. Awareness should be desirable, right? Sometimes. But when dealing with fate, awareness can only hurt individuals, as shown in both Oedipus Rex and Minority Report. Both movie and play clearly illustrate that when a person tries to change their own destiny, they only end up bringing themselves closer to it. They also show how attempting to alter another’s destiny…

others for personal gain and reward. Power corrupts peoples morality but the truth never pollutes their personal integrity. Both Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles posses leaders of society who come out favorable due to a lie. A leader’s power is determined by their manipulation of the truth. Manipulation of the truth demonstrates the leader’s exaggeration of power, and helps maintain a leader’s personal status and position in society.…

a person’s life. Nonetheless, one has an endless amount of life-altering choices to be made. Sophocles and Steven Spielberg both explore the idea of free will versus fate in their respective texts: Oedipus the King and Minority Report. Destiny is fulfilled due to the avoidance of it. To avoid their doomed fate, both characters go to extensive lengths physically and authoritatively, no matter how illogical it seems to try and escape destiny. To escape from fate both characters do so…

The “Minority Report” ,by Stephen Spielberg, takes a classic short story also called “Minority Report”, by Philip K. Dick, and adds a more Hollywood modern twist to it. Similar to the short story, the movie takes the viewer on a journey filled with enough mystery and suspense to incite an internal war of right and wrong, but the movie separates itself in that it is made with a business aspect in mind. Therefore, Spielberg makes certain characters much more relatable. More specifically, Spielberg…

Carl H-Block Final Draft 13/4/2014 What Can We Compare? How does one thinks about the similarity between two completely different worlds? One world is a movie with a hero who just broke out of jail and has encounter bullets everywhere during fighting scenes. Politicians with their unbearable argument also took place in this story. Another world has a hero who just came back from the greatest battle of his life fighting against the Trojans. Gods with godlike power play a major role and the hero…

division and reports to the director of Pre-Crime, Lamar Burgess, who throughout the film is a close friend and fatherly figure to Anderton. Three twins with congenital infeasible power, called Pre-Cogs, have the ability to see the future murders before they ought to occur. During the entire time span of Pre-Crime, there hasn't been a single murder, therefore, it is very successfull in public eye. The main thrust of the story happens when Jon Anderton himself will be a murderer. Anderton does…

Through constant separation and segregation between curious individuals, complicit figures, and the unjust system, and a maintenance of hope and fear, like the ones in Hunger Games and Minority Report, dystopian societies are able to maintain itself and injustice within. In both films, the system that controls the dystopia tries its very best to separate the curious individuals and the complicit, all the while isolating themselves into a very far away and unreachable place. To overthrow…