Minority Report
The movie Minority Report takes place in the future where technology and science are huge factors in life. The government uses pre-cogs to see the future and stop crimes before they happen.
Blog Posting #1: There are three people in the film that determine everyone's fate. Agatha, Daschell, and Arthur. They are pre-cogs and can see the the future. The government uses them to see when and where a crime is about to happen and stop it from happening. The pre-cogs spend their lives lying in a pool sleeping and watching murders happen. It's unethical to treat the pre-cogs this way because this is not a healthy living situation and their quality of life under these circumstances is very low. Human beings would not be able to live like that in real life because they would go insane if all they could do was lie in a pool and watch murders happen. This aspect of the movie is unrealistic.
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Blog Post #2: If the world had an infallible police state, it would mean that when the police stopped crimes and arrested people they were one hundred percent right and there was no chance of a mistake. This would be a good change in our world. If police were never wrong and could stop crimes, like the Pre-Crime unit did in the movie when they made arrests, the number of wrongly convicted criminals would plummet, and mass murders could be stopped. Hundreds of lives could be saved if we had ann infallible police state. Maybe if this was in place now the crime rates in Chicago would be extremely lower and neighborhoods and communities would be safer.
Blog Post #3: My favorite scene in the movie was when John Anderton's halo was removed and he revealed Lamar Burgess's secret to all of the people who respected him and were honoring him at his dinner party. It was the breaking point in the story that everything else in the plot led up to. It was the part where all of the strings were tied together and everything made sense. It was perfect the way John Anderton exposed Lamar Burgess. Nobody knew it was him doing it except Lamar, and John executed it perfectly. In the future I don't think it's realistic for one person to take down the entire plan of the government, and I don't think it should be possible for one person to do what John Anderton did because if they have the wrong reasons for what they're doing they could ruin many lives.
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