The movie Minority Report by the director Steven Spielberg the outcast is the future criminal. John Anderson is the Chief of the Department of Pre-Crime in Washington DC and a troubled human being because of the loss of his son and the divorce with his wife. Just before the department was going to the launched nation wide, the “precogs” foresee that Anderson was going to kill a man with the name of Leo Crow. This makes Anderson run away, and become an outcast from society.
At the end of the movie, we see the flaw of the pre-crime program. If a human being foresees that he will commit a crime in the near future, you could be able to change the future. This is what Anderson tries to through out the movie, because he did not want to be “haloed”. According to Terry Murray in his article “Our Post-Moral Future”, he explains how science has been able to read the brain in order to know what the intentions of people are, to know if they are going to commit a crime. He argues that using this, as a pre-crime tool is unmoral for people because humans may think awful things in their brains, but might never be able to commit such things. This relates to the movie. Because you think about It, it does not mean you will go through with it.
If you would be able to know that you would commit a crime, would you do what ever it takes to change the future? This thought and phrase is what makes Anderson an outcast in the movie. He does everything possible to change his future. He outsmarts technology by having eye replacement, so he is not found around the city. He kidnaps one of the precogs, Agatha, to prove that the precog’s visions were flawed. He does what ever it took for him to be saved, and also showed this question to his boss, when he was about to kill Anderson. If you would be able to change your future, save a life, save your own life you would be able to do so.
It is John Anderton, not Anderson. Good blog. Good use of article.
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