Minority Report

After watching the flim "Minority Report" based on the story by Phillip Dick it made it less confusing. I had also se the movie once before so that also made it easier to understand. I am not a big fan of the cyberpunk genre but I do like a few in the category such as Judge Dredd, and The Fifth Element. According to an internet site, one definition of cyberpunk is, " a literary movement, born in the 1980s, that seeks to completely integrate the realms of high tech and of pop culture." I think that is an accurate definition of the film's style. I think it is interesting that the main precog in the story was Agathon, the only female precog and the two twins were male. There has to be some significance to that. It is also interesting how the precogs look: they have no hair, and little color if any. The director could have made the precogs look like average people but instead made them stand out by their appearance. The main character of the precogs, Agathon, is also portrayed as weak, vulnerable, and dependent. She can not walk without the assistance of John Anderton. Looking over various websites I also found out that Phillip K. Dick wrote stories for other movies such as Totall Recall, Blade Runner, and A Scanner Darkley. To me the movie signified that a person has a choice over his or her actions, nothing is predetermined because in the movie John Anderton decided not to shoot Leo Crow when the precog had a vision of it. And Lamar Burgess choose to kill himself instead of killing Anderton or not killing Anderton. I think the movie shows that we have the chance to make decisions as humans. I think that is a good message because that means we can have a choice to make both bad and good decisions and not be determined by destiny.