Minority Report

After reading Phillip Dick’s “Minority Report” and watching Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report,” I felt that both of them were good stories. Though Dick’s story was not long enough to create a feature film with, the expansion made by Spielberg was reasonable and made for a great film. I don’t normally like futuristic films, but I always love a Spielberg film, so I enjoyed it. Spielberg wanted to design a science fiction film that accurately depicted what the world would be like in 50 years. Though we will not have a highway system like the one depicted in the film in fifty years, his ideas of advertisements, retinal scan, sick sticks, eye replacement and recognition in a shop provide an ideal illustration of the future. The premise of “Minority Report” is extremely interesting and I think Dick’s story is a revolutionary one. The idea that a crime could be stopped before it occurs is inconceivable! In theory, precime is a great idea, however, at the end of the film when Lamar shoots himself instead of John, who’s name appears on the predetermined red ball, precrime is proved to be implausible. The reason why precrime could be fooled was because Lamar knew his fait, therefore, he could change his future. I loved everything about the film, some things in particular: the spiders that detected body heat, the story line about John’s son and his wife, the plot twist at the end with Lamar and Agatha’s mother, the weird plants in the greenhouse and I especially liked how Agatha was the most essential precog to the trio.