Thoughts on the Minority Report

Watching the Minority Report helped a lot to understand the message that Philip K. Dick was trying to perceive. Although there were many differences, I thought the movie was a lot clearer. With the kinds of things and technology that Dick discusses within the story, I think visual adaptation of the story helped a lot to understand it. Some of his ideas within the story got pretty complicated and confusing and making them visual worked well. I loved the technology in the story and the movie. I found it all really interesting, especially how the future was depicted and the identification process. How to identify people they used their eyes, not figure prints and how where everywhere you went you were identified. Even when getting on and off the sub-way you were identified by an eye scanner. That way the police, government and other people in that kind of high status know where you are at all times. The thought of it is almost creepy. It reminds me a lot of 1984 by George Orwell. This book is also set in the future, where “Big Brother” who was kind of like the government was always there knowing where you are. You can not hide, kind of like how John Anderton could not hide, or at least it was hard to. I found it very interesting how two different stories, both written about the future, see the people being controlled and watched over. That people no longer have privacy and have to fear the government and police.

Another thing that caught my attention was the fact that all “murders” that precrime arrested went straight to jail. There was no fair trail, they had completely eliminated it. I can see where they would because they know they are guilty, but there are always different levels or murder, how long they should be imprisoned. There was nothing of that. Such as today premeditated crime has a worse sentence than people who kill out of passion. The fact that they did not have certain years that they would be put away or any trail at all where they can explain why, something that precrime doesn’t always know. The precogs never told motive and that is something that goes into a sentence. Anyways that was just a couple thoughts on Minority Report.