Minority Report Film Review

Minority Report is a futuristic story talking about future cops could arrest the murderer before they can commit a murder-- Precrime Unit.

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The starting of the movie is the piece and pieces visionary images which generated by the predictors of the Precrime Unit, says they can foresee the crimes which are going to happen.


John (Tom Cruise), the chief of the Precrime Unit had lost his son without a reason and this had causing him living in suffer. Meanwhile his wife Laura also left him because she couldn't stand with the pain for the remind of their missing son everytime she looks at John. To ease this feeling, John has constantly taking drugs and nobody had knew it.


6 years continuously from 2046 they had successfully creating zero crime in the city until John finds himself is the next victim in the visionary production of the predictor. He believed that somebody had set him up. To prove himself innocent, he has no choice but to flee from the arrestment of Precrime Unit. At that time, Witwer, The Department of Justice was there witnessing. Witwer also found the drug addiction of John at his home.


John then get himself to a creepy surgeon and had an disgusting eyes surgery to change his pair of eyes. This is to get rid of the iris detector that Precrime uses. At the same time, Witwer had found some differ version of images overlapping the visionary clips of the predictor which is called "minority report". Witwer doubted that the foresee of the predictor might be mistaken sometime. At the end he killed by Burgess to hide the fact.


John used his old eyes to enter Precrime Unit and get the predictor, Agatha out from the pool to help him find the minority report. Finally they found that someone had fooling the system by hiring people to be murderers but in fact they are just trying to confuse the predictors' insight vision and do murder second time that the predictors could hardly foresee.


The story ended up with Laura's intelligent to free John from custody and finally they show up the clips of Agatha's insight vision of Burgess's murder. Burgess is the one fooling people around. Precrime Unit is closed down after that and 3 predictors are free and live the normal life. Meanwhile, John and Laura get together again.

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From the movie, we could observe the crazy yet possible thoughts of the director towards the future architecture and technology. Vertical transportation, advance reading mind gadgets, iris detector, distinct transport, 3d storage medium and etc.
It does set off the story. However in term of building, it will be just simple form to maximize space.

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This movie intends to tell us that technology invented by human can be also distorted by human. What seem to be right will not always be right. Burgess had taking the minor error happened in conveying insight vision as a benefit to murder.
Also, our destiny is always determined by our own, is never predetermined. Even we have the ability to foresee future, future could be altered by us with the different single step we take now.

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The movie like these do help us to explore mind and give another iamginery space toward our design. Apart of the story, the context of this movie had brought us to a foreseeable future. In term of architecture, what can we do for the society beneficial? What is to overcome the increasingly environment, population, criminal problems that coming to us shortly?