Tess Kihm : Blog Posting 2

What if we had an infallible police state, a police force that would make no mistakes, because pre-crime never made any mistakes? All of our problems would be solved, right? No more shootings, no more deaths. Would this really better the society, improve our quality of life, is this even possible?

In Minority Report the use of pre-crime is suppost to completly stop all acts of violence and crimes. If someone was going to murder someone, then they would be arrested before they had the chance to complete the act. Lets say this was a real part of society today. Could this be effetive or even exist? I don't think so. People learn from mistakes, and if they never make from those mistakes then they never learn their lesson. Also I think everything happens for a reason, so if you are disrupting the normal cycle of this world, then what else could you be effecting in the long run? Lastly, as humans, we can change our minds. Pre-crime fails to realize this, thus putting people way for crimes they weren't actually going to commit. But, what if this was put in place. Then what could have been avoided? Possibly the terrorist attacks in France, or the Sandy Hook shooting, but again I stand by my point. Horrible things happen, and you can't always control that.

Tess Kihm: Blog Posting 1

In Minority Report, humans that are used to tell the future ( pre-cogs) represent advances in medical sciences. They can predict when someone is going to commit a crime. There are three pre-cogs. The main leader is named Agatha, and without her the whole system wouldn't run. They are kept in a pool of water with wires attached to their heads, so they can read the predictions. The visions appear on a screen above them, and two balls get sent out with the names of the people involved in the crime. This whole system is called pre-crime. It is used to prevent crimes before they actually happen. So if someone is seriously plotting on committing a crime, then the precogs will pick up on that and police officers will arrest the " criminal" and put them in a cell for the rest of their lives.
 The pre-cogs weren't always in this pool of water though, they were normal human beings just like anyone else. So now the real question is presented, is this really ethical? Putting humans in a pool of water, with no freedom, to work for the government, for the rest of their lives. Although some may say that these three people could save thousands, is it really okay to take away three people's lives, to better the government? Personally, I don't think this is okay. You can't avoid crimes, but there are better ways to limit them. Taking three innocent people and making them work for you is not right. Those people had lives worth living, and who knows maybe they would one day do something to change the world.

Leah Goetz

Sarah Bogan Minority Point Final

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.

Agatha

Pre-cogs

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. 

Nickolas Smith Minority Report Final

1.)In the movie minority there is series of new things in the year 2054 and even though there is a series of new things there still is al little problem in this year. I  this year they have technology that is new, they also have a new pre-crime division in washington D.C, and lastly they have sometime of science to get the murders before they happen. The science in this movie is actually the pre-cogs in this movie because they keep them in the pool for the rest of their lives and they use there minds to see the murder before it happens which keeps the pre-crime going.

   2.)-Pre crime as a sign of power of infallible police state. This means that the police are perfect at what they do. They have to have the pre-cogs in order to get exact information about the murder or if they don't then pre-crime is not going to be promoted. Yes, an infallible police state should be apart of our world because of the fact there is so much crime and killings that the police are scared to come out and actually handle the situation like real police should. Had this principle been set the shooting of the situation with Endia Martin situation would have been avoided.

3.) The new technology in this movie is also based on NO PRIVACY at ALL!  When you go to the Mall there is a scanner in each store which tells you your name. This means that you have actually purchased something from that store. For example in the movie he gets his eye changed because he was a wanted man he doesn't want to get caught in places so that they find him and he gets arrested. In the 2054 privacy is not evan a word anymore.

Karl Cunningham

Philip K Dick made many short stories and he use science fiction to tell his stories. One of his short stories was called The Minority Report. Philip used science fiction as an outlet to break unfamiliar grounds. His work was based on experiments and questions on your own existence. His own emotional and psychological state plays a very important part in the tone of his work throughout the years. Philip used science fiction in his movie Minority Report. He gave the idea of how to stop crime before it happened called pre-crime. This is idea was something that would happen in the future where technology is more advanced. Well the thought of something like stoping crime being so advanced would be better for cities like Chicago because basically people die everyday and with this new system every person that lost love ones would have them back. This would effect us in a very positive way. Probably if that happened then the government would probably allow the purge every year.


The technology of how the cars were driving on the highway and how they were able to kind of switch how the car drove. In our society theres lots of crashes because people have more control over their cars. But in the new technology that would be brought from Minority Report the car would have more control over the road which would have a positive effect on us because crashes would only happen if there was a technical difficulty. Another thing that would be very helpful for the government is the eye scanner. That would be a positive and negative effect because people would want to know how to remove their eyes so they would be able to get away with illegal stuff without being busted. Many people would be embarrass because lots of people go on website that are inappropriate for kids that is under the age of eighteen. Some people have low self-esteem and basically all their personal information would be shown once they stepped foot in a store. On the plus side the government will be able to stop illegal immigration and probably would bring down the crime rate because theirs no way to escape with all these cameras scanning your eyes. I don't think this could ever happen in the future mainly because all this was possible because three human being were able to tell the future. Without that this will never happen.

If we had something like pre-crime it all depends on how the operation is operated to get my support. In the movie people was hold captive just so the crime rates could go down. If they volunteered then it would be a different story, but that wasn't the situation. I would support an idea like this only if its only using pre-crime without the extra things like the eye scanner and the halo's. This really would be a good idea for the future because a lot of people has been living with hurting memories in their head and some people are missing love ones right now. With this new technology crime will go down and it would help the world dramatically. When the United States has a war with a different country pre-crime will allow them to be able to know when they are planning attack against them. So yes it would be very important our economy right now. Pre- crime could be a future thing it would just have to change a couple things in the way they operate.

anthony calhoun

the movie Minority Report, the pre cogs are used to spot crime before it even happens. They were being used for that because there were so many people that were doing a lot of crimes. The pre cogs were actually a good thing because it decreased the number of crimes in the city. But the pre cogs also lived in a weird lifestyle. the pre cogs lived in a pool, they could never move out of place because they were half asleep  and they had to eat out of a tube, and the pre cogs didn't have any connections to the real world. In the medical  point of the way the pre-cogs were being treated, it was bad for them and there health because they weren't getting any exercise and they never moved around. i don't think that humans could really be able to function like Agatha, Daschell and Arthur because if they start to see crimes before it happened they might get PTSD and could possibly hurt their brain.


[blog posting #2] 
an infallible police states were police that always did something right. infallible means ''incapable of making mistakes or being wrong''. i don't think that this term should be part of our society because our society has many of problems and nobody its pure perfect. for example, people think that white people have a lot of money and they go to those good colleges, but the reality is that not all white people have all those things.

[blog posting #3]
my favorite part in the movie was when tom cruz got caught by the police and he used the sick stick on one of the police officers. i like that particular part because he took the sick stick and used it against the police. i think that this might come in the future because now the technology is upgraded. how do i know, they made a tupac hologram