"Muuuurdeeerr"

What the what?! Minority Report was…I don’t even know.  Mind blowing? I guess that’s an appropriate phrase to use.  I persuaded my boyfriend to watch this movie with me, and from the second it started we kept looking at each other like, “what is going on? I’m so confused.”

The thing about this movie that impressed me the most was the whole concept of Pre-crime.  The concept and the execution of the entire operation was fascinating.  The concept of Pre-Cogs is what blew my mind the most.  Up until the second half of the movie, I had no idea what those human-like creatures lying in a weird pool were all about.  Once it was explained that the Pre-Cogs could see the future, things definitely started to become clearer.

I found the overall approach to the film extremely interesting as well.  This isn't a utopian film per say, it’s more of a dystopia that is trying its hardest to become a utopia.  It shows the social dreaming aspect, and control, and eventually the downfall of this potential society.  It’s a utopia in the making that failed to succeed.

At the beginning of the movie, I was convinced that this futuristic Maryland/D.C. was relatively normal and 

similar to how we live today.  The houses and the people looked pretty normal.  But the farther along into the movie, things began to look more futuristic.  The cars, the buildings, and the technology all began to show how futuristic the society really is. 

It’s obvious that people in this society use technology to control the world, people, and the future.  I don’t know how I feel about this idea.  Yes, they are preventing murders from happening, but they are also meddling with a person’s fate.  It’s sort of entering a moral grey area, but it’s a valid thing to take into consideration. 

Adding to this point, I thought it was interesting that religion (Christianity to be exact) still exists in this society.  How can someone support Pre-crime while believing that God is the ultimate controller of fate?  This seemed incredibly odd to me.

While watching the scene when John (Tom Cruise) goes to the “jail” to investigate the murder of Anne Lively, I couldn’t help but notice that the jail looked really similar to the Panopticon that Dr. Mitchell-Buck showed us in class.  I guess it would be a useful setup, having the guards stationed in the middle of the room to make it easier to watch the (coma-induced?) prisoners. 

Overall, Minority Report was a pretty disturbingly awesome movie that rendered me mentally and emotionally exhausted by the end.