Minority Report Dystopian Society

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Minority Report and Dystopian Society In the film Minority Report by Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise pays the PreCrime cop John Anderson. The PreCrime division uses three people known as precogs to predict murders. The PreCrime cops use this information to stop murders before they occur. The Headquarters for Precrime is in Washington DC.The society the movie created is a textbook dystopian society. Minority Report is sent in a Dystopian society created in the US. Not only is this dystopia in the United States but likely all the world. Set in the year 2054, technology is flourishing and comprehensive ads are everywhere. Advertisements are able to know your name and provide you with a personalized experience. However, right alongside these smart …show more content…

This is false because the precogs themselves are flawed. They see visions of murders that have already occurred. They call these echoes. This makes a murder loophole that can be exploited. If someone hires a murderer the precogs will predict it then PreCrime takes the hired killer away and you yourself commit the murder the same way as the hired killer planned (the act the precogs foresaw), and you get off scot free. This tactic is used by Lamar the man who created the precognitive system, to kill the precogs mother Anne Lively to create his perfect utopia. And poor John caught in all of this had his son abducted. This resulted in his separation with his wife and his addiction to illegal drugs, even though he is the very face of law and order(he is shown on the intro of cops). He joins the precrime police force to stop things like what happened to his son from ever happening again. However, in this dystopia it turns out he was working for the very man who committed murder to create his rise to power. The illusion of a perfect society hiding a corrupt reality is the very definition of dystopia. For dystopian protagonists, a common thread of their story is the sensation of being trapped. John is trapped in his society and in his addiction to an illegal narcotic. He feels increasingly trapped after the precogs predicted him

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