Minority Report - Film Review

The Basic Plot line

Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction neo-noir directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick .In 2054, an experimental Washington, D.C. police force called Precrime has completely cut murder in the city. Precrime employs three "precogs", mutated humans with precognition to view murders that occur in the future; the officers of Precrime then analyze and interpret the three visions to track down and stop the murder before it happens. John Anderton is chief of the force, working under its director Lamar Burgess, however, he hides the fact that he is addicted to drug called neuroin since the disappearance of his son Sean, which also caused his wife Lara to leave him.

Using Agatha's future insight to avoid capture, Anderton takes Agatha to a hacker to try to extract her vision of Leo Crow's murder, but finds it is the same as the original report. However, Agatha then provides Anderton with her vision of the death of a woman named Anne Lively, which Anderton records. Chased by Precrime, Anderton and Agatha end up at the apartment where Crow is to die; they find his room, covered with hundreds of pictures of children including Sean. When Crow enters, Anderton holds him at gunpoint, but Crow denies any involvement with Sean, and that he is only here to be killed by Anderton to have his family paid off handsomely. Anderton refuses to kill Crow and demands to know who had set this up, but Crow forces himself on Anderton's gun and makes him pull the trigger, killing him as predicted. Anderton and Agatha flee to Lara's home, while Witwer and Precrime investigate the crime scene.

Burgess then kills Witwer, noting that without Agatha, the precog hive mind wouldn't be able to predict this murder. After being taken in by Lara, Anderton comes to realize that Anne Lively is Agatha's mother, and the knowledge of her death is the reason for the manhunt against him, and shares this with Lara. Precrime eventually arrives at Lara's home and Anderton is taken into custody, while Agatha is put back into the system. Burgess, preparing for a celebratory dinner for the Precrime program, consoles Lara, but accidentally reveals more about Lively's murder then he should know. Lara calls in help from Anderton's former friends to free Anderton from prison. During the dinner, Anderton calls Burgess while Agatha's vision of Lively's death is played for the guests. The footage clearly shows Burgess as the murderer, having set up a false target just as Witwer had predicted. Burgess had killed Lively to stop her from attempting to take her daughter Agatha back. Burgess had then set up Anderton in order to cover up Anderton's knowledge.

As Burgess finds and draws a gun on Anderton, Precrime receives reports that Burgess will kill Anderton. Thus demonstrating Precrime works but becoming a murderer himself, or he can spare him, showing Precrime as a failure. If one knows his or her own future, he or she can change it. Burgess decides to commit suicide and kills himself as Precrime arrive at the scene. As a result, the Precrime division is shut down, with all those incarcerated by them released. Far out on a remote island, where they can no longer be troubled by future visions.

The Impressive or Unimpressive about the movie

After watched this movie, I think this director has a such a creative and imaginative thinking to encourage people to understand and figure it out what is actually this movie means. More to tactics and mysterious movie. One of the main questions the film raises is whether the future is set or whether free will can alter the future.

Another things that impress me in this movie is their technology :

• Driverless car which could be commanded by the police to deliver their occupant to the police station.

• Iris Recognition systems which tracked the movements of all citizens, and were also used for authentication and payment, and to deliver highly targeted advertising to passers-by.
• Mobile surveillance robots which swarm through a building and use iris recognition to find a sought person.
• A high speed gestural user interface for computers, where hands are moved in front of a screen

Intention of this film

The intention that the director want to carries out is the paranoid side of the futuristic world.
The director was trying to mention that everyone's future is in everyone's own hands. Choices that we make are important because it will determine our future. Thinking deeply before actions.


Impact of this movie to design thinking

I think this movie have a great impact to design thinking especially the technologies that they created in this movie because I'm sure that the future technology will be developed stronger and better.