Minority Report

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Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by renowned director Steven Spielberg and is set in the year 2054 in Washington, D. C. The film revolves around an elite law enforcing squad; Precrime. The Precrime Division uses three genetically altered humans called Pre-Cogs whom possesses special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. After each crime is foreseen and analyzed, Precrime police officers are sent to the crime location to apprehend the future murderers and place them under arrest. The future murderers are then put into a sleep state with a device called a "halo". Based on Minority Report, it suggests that humans are free willed beings and have the ability to alter the future that was predetermined for them.

In Minority Report, The Precrime Division believed in the flawlessness of the predictions from the Pre-Cogs and believed that the future is predetermined for each individual. Hence, they have never doubted any of their arrest. However, trouble strikes when John Anderton finds himself murdering an unknown individual by the name of Leo Crow. Anderton has already seen his future and he believes that he is being set up by someone, so he sets off to find out the truth. It was already predetermined for Anderton that he was going to murder Crow in 36 hours however it is possible for Anderton to alter his own future. In this case, Anderton manage to find Crow and confront him about who he actually was. Crow told Anderton that he took his son, Sean, six years ago and killed him. Anderton was contemplating whether to kill Crow or not, finally he refuses to fire at Crow, but Crow whom was promised by an unknown individual a large sum of money for his family forces himself on Anderton's gun and ...

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...eport” are disregarded and destroyed the instant they occur. Despite working for Precrime for a long time, Anderton was shocked to know that such important information was not told. Since there are times when there is a “minority report” the outcome of a prediction of a future murder is rather uncertain. Even if there is a small possibility of a “minority report” there could still be a possibility that the perpetrator or murderer would not commit the murder attempt.

The fate of a person based in Minority Report is that each person’s future is already predetermined. However, it does not necessary means that one has to just go with the flow and pursue what has been predetermined for them. Being an independent being is filled with surprises; for we can alter the future that was previously predetermined into a much better future one that is continuously evolving.

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