Steven Spielberg's Minority Report
Discuss the vision of future depicted in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report.
As many critics say, Minority Report is one of the movies that has a very realistic vision upon future. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Minority Report is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. It’s a neo-noir science fiction movie and was officially released on June, 2002. The action in the movie happens in 2054, in Washington D.C and in Northern Virginia. An elite squad that enforces law named “PreCrime”, eliminates crime virtually from Washington D.C. The whole story revolves around John Anderton, captain of “PreCrime”. With the help of three gifted humans called “precogs”, the squad manages to stop crimes before they take place. But the system seems to make an error, when it shows that John Anderton will commit a murder in the next 36 hours. So a “manhunt” begins, a “manhunt” of himself, as Anderton is determined to prove that the system is wrong and to find out the truth. He also believes that one of the “precogs” predictions’, namely Agatha’s, will help him find the truth of this “minority report”. In order to make “Minority Report” more realistic, more believable actually, because year 2054 is too far away to predict what will happen then, Spielberg hired a group of thinkers in technology and science to show him how they think the future will be …show more content…
In 2002, namely 2001 when the production for “Minority Report” started, Spielberg’s summit with the intellectuals had some interesting ideas about what the world will be in the future. After the film was released and since nowadays many of the ideas were proven to be very realistic and some of them were actually made we start to wonder if in 2054 the world would be like
As many critics say, Minority Report is one of the movies that has a very realistic vision upon future. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Minority Report is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. It’s a neo-noir science fiction movie and was officially released on June, 2002. The action in the movie happens in 2054, in Washington D.C and in Northern Virginia. An elite squad that enforces law named “PreCrime”, eliminates crime virtually from Washington D.C. The whole story revolves around John Anderton, captain of “PreCrime”. With the help of three gifted humans called “precogs”, the squad manages to stop crimes before they take place. But the system seems to make an error, when it shows that John Anderton will commit a murder in the next 36 hours. So a “manhunt” begins, a “manhunt” of himself, as Anderton is determined to prove that the system is wrong and to find out the truth. He also believes that one of the “precogs” predictions’, namely Agatha’s, will help him find the truth of this “minority report”. In order to make “Minority Report” more realistic, more believable actually, because year 2054 is too far away to predict what will happen then, Spielberg hired a group of thinkers in technology and science to show him how they think the future will be …show more content…
In 2002, namely 2001 when the production for “Minority Report” started, Spielberg’s summit with the intellectuals had some interesting ideas about what the world will be in the future. After the film was released and since nowadays many of the ideas were proven to be very realistic and some of them were actually made we start to wonder if in 2054 the world would be like