Minority Report is a great film. It is a political film and a futuristic film. Political film because it shows how people who are given authority will do anything to keep that power. It is a futuristic film because of the technology that has been created. Humans in Minority Report have become dependent on technology. Retinal scanners were advanced and any scanner in any place could identify you. Crime prevention techniques have improved in the 2054 future we see in Minority Report. Those techniques violate the rights of the three pre-cogs the Pre-Crime Department uses. Anything that could be used a tool for profit or could be used, as a weapon will be misused in human hands. Sometimes human have to realize that power should be used only for the good and only when it does the least harm.
People who were imprisoned due to the pre-cogs premonitions were released on pardons due to the discovered flaw in the system. It speaks to our society because the flaws we have will make us free. Our nation was born out of the flaws, the need to be different from the country of England, and those flaws are the reason we exist in democracy today. The prisoners were locked up not due to the fact they committed murder but to the fact there were going to commit. In our present, we do not have that ability to lock people up on presumed evidence. Our law enforcements only arrest people on definite evidence. The criminals were handled by having halos placed on their heads that would incapacitate them. The criminals were not given a trial and automatically found guilty. Now that I think about it, I do love the right to a fair trial even though our system is somewhat corrupt as well. Hollywood and the Rhetoric Panic article says, "Spielberg's film ends with the destruction of the Pre-Crime and the absolution of those punished for crimes that, in reality, they had never committed." "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king" says the blind drug dealer from Minority Report.
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