How far
is too far when it comes to technology? This is one of the major questions that
Minority Report asks. In 2054
Washington D.C. has what is called a PreCrime police force. They can detect
murders and arrest people before they even happen. They do this by using three
people who have been trained to see the future. Their memories are then saved
and uploaded onto the computer where Captain John Anderton and his team use
plenty of futuristic gizmos and gadgets to analyze the memory and determine
where and when the murder is going to happen.
This
means though that basically the government can always see what we’re doing,
before were even going to do it. The main theme of the movie is fate versus
free will. Free will is a trait that defines us as humans. We have the ability
to make choices. Yes, we have to live with the consequences, but we have the
choice. The government now has a machine though that can see what choices we
make before we make them. Are we still in control then? Or is big brother
really in control?
The
deeper problem is when you find out what your future is. Are you still making
the choice if you’ve been told already you’re going to make that choice? Is
there any way to change that future? This is what John has to deal with when
one day a vision comes up of him committing a murder.
I think
this is where things get taken too far. Free will is important. The future
should be left unknown. If you know the future that ruins the journey to lead
us there. It could even alter that journey if you know too much. Plus should we
as society allow the police and the government to creep that far into our lives
that they know things about us that even we don’t? No one knows us better than
ourselves. If that isn’t true anymore than we don’t have anything to call ours.
Everything about us is out there for everyone to know. That sense of having
something about you that is inherently yours is important.
Works Cited
Spielberg, Steven, dir. Minority Report. CD-ROM.
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