By Robert Scucci
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Having been a little kick “determinism against free will”, I thought it was high time to review the 2002 Minority report on Paramount + after having followed and looked at a copy of Run to run Last week. Since spring has finally arrived, I must admit that the two titles have motivated me to intensify my racing game because Run Lola Run’s Franka Porente knows how to take her steps, and Tom Cruise, if I had to guess, lives on a treadmill whenever he is in active production for none of his big budget blockbusters.
In addition to finally giving me the push, I needed to start training for a half-marathon, Minority reportLike most adaptations of Philip K. Dick, offers a surprising overview of a dark future in which a government program with apparently good intentions quickly becomes corrupt as a means of controlling the masses to make state auctions.
If this is not enough to advance your engine, I will also take advantage of this opportunity to gently remind you that Steven Spielberg was shooting all cylinders in the form of creating a world full of futuristic technologies which not only seemed incredible in 2002, but still holds to date.
The concept of premature imprisonment
While Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name directly inspired the events that play Minority reportThe film considerably extends its tradition. Steven Spielberg He himself said by saying that the novel has no second or third act, and that the film itself pushes its themes in a new territory so that it is an appropriate adaptation of the short duration of fiction.
Centered on precogs – a group of catatonic but clairvoyant triplets working for the prescribed division of the federal government – and their innate gift to predict violent crimes before they occur, Minority report Explore how the government can clean the streets by prematurely stop people who, according to precogs, will commit a murder on a future date.
Like most government agencies represented in science fiction thrillers, something harmful occurs behind closed doors, and although there have been results for the form of violent crimes as being committed because the reasonable diligence of precog, something else is at stake when Tom CruiseChef John Anderton becomes the main person of interest in a future investigation into the murder for a crime that he has not yet committed Minority report.
John Anderton on LAM
Operating as the ambassador and commander of the Program of the Program of the Préciminéux, John Anderton defends the cause because he has personal participation in the program. Six years before the events described in Minority reportJohn’s child was removed and his body was never found, which collapsed from his marriage and for him self-implemented with a popular street medication known as neuroin to deal with his depression.
In 2054, all premeditated murders stopped thanks to the prescribed program, and John spends most of his time using predictions of precogs to mitigate the crimes of passion to come which have a very short time window to rectify. When John discovers that precogs have a vision of murdering Leo Crow, a man who at this stage Minority Report is a stranger to him, he has reasons to believe that he is put in place and finds himself on the run because he is now wanted to have committed a murder which has not yet occurred.
Declining the highly monitored streets, John, who has reason to believe that the agent of the Ministry of Justice, Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), is in a way responsible for his situation because he wants to audit the division of the prescribed for any potential error before it becomes a national program, must simultaneously get down while obtaining its stockings.
Learning the relationship of the titular minorities, which is a divergence found between the visions of the three precogs that could exempt it, John must change his appearance and find the missing file which may or may not have been archived as a means of preserving the presumed infallibility of the entire program.
Moral dilemma of the minority report
Minority report Adopt a deterministic approach to raise the question of whether it is ethical to incarcerate people for having committed future crimes. On the one hand, if precogs are still right, then the prescribed program has managed to make sure that no one will ever tear their family again. Conversely, if people have in fact a semblance of free will, then predictions of precogs may not be 100% accurate if the alleged killer has a moment of clarity, preventing them from committing crime in the first place if they do not give them a chance to see for themselves.
John Anderton, who, in his mind, would never succumb to violent desires, works as a control over experience because he is by all the means of a commander by the books that believes in the program and has never been put in a position that would suggest that he is able to commit a crime of passion like the one he is accused.
Is John a murderous future who has not yet experienced the mental trigger that will push him from the edge? Or is it in control of his own destiny, which will allow him to confront Leo Crow by non-violent means, proving that there are cracks in the system he devoted his life to construction from zero? Although this is a situation without victory for John Anderton, because he will either be sentenced to premother, or cancel all the work proving his innocence, Minority report Leaves no stone not returned to his efforts to explore the ethics of a system designed for good before it becomes ultimately corrupted by the powers in place.
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