We have laws that protect people from being arrested and tried after the fact but in the future it's ok to arrest people before they have actually committed the crime? Interesting. I mean it seems really useful. Stop murders before they occur, saving lives it's great! Except that as we learn people can change their futures. So how is this good? All I could think about throughout the movie was the man that almost killed his wife and her lover. As he was being arrested he called out something along the lines of "I didn't do it!" He is right, he technically hadn't done anything yet but he still ended up tagged and locked up with the thousands of other pre criminals.
If John Anderton could change his future why couldn't these others? We'll never actually know for sure because they were arrested before they were given the chance to choose.
Side note: I was very disturb by the treatment of the criminals. The guard mentioned their minds continued to work while their bodies were totally confined and constricted. They slipped on that head band thing and just collapsed but it didn't stop their mental processes. Some of those people had been locked up for years unable to move but able to think. It seems almost like torture to me. I was also curious as to whether they only thought about their "crimes" or if they had free thoughts.
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