Precrime, arresting people before they
have actually committed a crime. Does this make sense? Does this
protect the people, protect their rights? Does this make for a
utopia?
My answer to all of these questions is
a big, fat NO.
I'm
sorry, but the whole idea of triplets being able to predict when,
how, and who for murders that will take place four days from the
present is far fetched. Not only that, but the inhumane treatment of
these three people, or
at least that is what they would have been if they were not kept in
that electrolyte bath and shot up with drugs, is morally wrong. Along
with immoral actions, the officers arresting people for actions they
have not yet committed completely against constitutional rights.
According to Agatha, these people still had a choice...yes they
dreamed it would happen, but the individual still had a choice to
complete the action, such as with John. So these people may have
never even completed the crime, and yet they are arrested for an
indefinite amount of time for thinking about it.
Does
a world without crime lead to utopia?
In
utopia, people tend to be generally happy, suffer little, and put the
many before the one. In Minority
Report,
while there was no murder, there were still other crimes, people
turned to drugs, and protected themselves. The people still had to
cautious, they were not completely safe – a major part of utopia.
John and Lara suffered terribly with the loss of their child, Sean.
In the first scene, the woman was committing adultery, which may have
meant that she was not happy or satisfied in her marriage. John had
to get drugs off the street. Lamar set up John to save his own butt.
Precrime does not seem to make a utopic society. Yes it brings down
the murders, one less way for people to suffer, but they have other
things that happen that show that the people in this society do
suffer.
I
would rather continue living life in this society, with murder, than
a world with precrime. First, they treated the triplets inhumanely,
they also ignored our constitutional rights, and finally people still
are not exceptionally happy.
It
was a good movie, but nowhere near utopia...or dystopia...it was just
there.
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