Nothing can change the past, nothing can predict the future

Freda 2022-04-19 09:01:04

I actually watched this movie many years ago. Today, I found a clip on a short video app, so I went to watch it again.

Contains spoilers, watch with caution.

At the beginning of the film, in 2054, in the crime prevention center, the young prophet predicted the occurrence of a murder. The protagonist, the captain of the crime prevention team, John, went to stop it. In fact, the criminal in the first case was miserable. His wife cheated and he was breaking it Emotional during adultery, arrested before committing impulsive crime. One of the procedures of arrest is to put a special "hat" on the criminal, John has a line: put a hat on him. The original meaning of this sentence should be nothing. In the eyes of today's Chinese netizens, the irony is particularly strong. Put on your green hat and don't cry.

At night, John buys drugs in a dark corner. The drug dealer is a man who has his eyes gouged out. In the future, eyes will be like ID cards. The drug dealer said a classic saying: In the world of the blind, a one-eyed dragon is enough to be a king.

After returning to his residence, John used drugs to anesthetize himself. It turned out that John's son was killed six years ago. John always watched his son's video at night, thinking of his son silently.

Danny Witto, a federal investigator who came to investigate the crime prevention center, asked to enter the "sanctuary", the room of the three prophets. The investigator believed that the three prophets were like gods, and the protagonist was like a priest. God would not make mistakes, but Priests may give false "decrees". When John was alone with the three prophets, the young prophet suddenly woke up from his deep sleep and asked John if you saw it. John looked up at the big screen, it was a previous murder. The killer of the homicide was not found because the killer had eye surgery and tricked the scanner. Then John went to the prison to investigate and found that the information predicted by the young prophet in that case did not exist, only the other two prophets.

The prison guard here also has a classic line: carefully dig out the old past, it will only get dirty.

John went to his colleague Rama to find out about the loss of some data. The colleague expressed concern about John's drug use and feared that John would be discovered by Danny. Meanwhile, Danny sneaks into John's home to investigate, finding drugs and video of John's son.

The Prophet again predicted the next crime, and 36 hours later, John would shoot and kill a man he didn't know. Danny's previous words seemed to be a prophecy. "Priest" John saw the "oracle" this time, but he did not arrest the criminal as usual, or could not arrest the criminal as usual, because the criminal this time was himself.

The staff inside the "Temple" also saw the prophecy, and he gave John two minutes to escape before ringing the alarm bell. John met Danny on the way to escape. Danny told John that he had found drugs. John thought that this prophecy was forged by Danny. After talking with Rama on the phone, John began to escape and find the truth. John After escaping the pursuit of his former colleagues and Danny, he visited the creator of the crime prevention center system. The creator told John that the prophets were actually the descendants of drug addicts, and the three prophets were just survivors. Talent, and told John that when the three prophets occasionally disagreed, the one of the three prophets who disagreed with the other two was the minority, which led to the title of the movie - Minority Report. This is also the reason why some of the information predicted by the prophets had disappeared before John found in the prison, and the minority report records will be destroyed to ensure the accuracy of the prophetic system and the unquestionableness of the judicial system.

The creator told John that the record of the report was destroyed but the original data was still there. This is a system she designed. As long as the original data in the prophet's body can be found, the data that proves the loopholes in the prophet's system may prove John's innocence.

In fact, the creator is more like a god, as if controlling everything behind the scenes.

John went to a black clinic and changed his eyeballs to avoid being pursued. This doctor was a criminal that John had once arrested, but he was quite professional and did not do anything else to John. The doctor said that after 12 hours Only then can the gauze be removed, otherwise he will be blind. At night, John dreamed of his son again. After waking up, he fumbled to the refrigerator to get something to eat. I wonder if it was bad luck, he did not touch the fresh milk and sandwiches, but touched expired milk and spoiled sandwiches in the refrigerator.

Later, in order to avoid the heat detection of the arresting personnel, John hid in a bathtub filled with ice water, which happened to echo John's dream. It turned out that John's son was abducted by the pool. At that time, John was performing for his son. He dived into the pool with his own breath-holding technique, so he never saw how his son was abducted.

In the end, John was forced to remove the gauze from one eye in advance for the eye scan of the hunting robot.

The next day, John disguised himself with the help of a medicine given by the doctor, and then used his original eye scan to enter the crime prevention center. Just as John entered the temple to find the minority report, Danny also found the girl from the prophecy image. prophet.

John took the maiden prophet out of the temple and found a hacker to decipher the report in the prophet's body. The team before John came to hunt again. John relied on the prophet's prediction to escape the hunt, and then decided to go to the crime scene to find out the truth.

At the scene of the crime, John found a photo of his son. He finally knew why he would kill a person he didn't know, because this person was the one who kidnapped and killed his son. The young prophet had been persuading John to leave, and John knew, The reason why he didn't have a minority report in this case is because he must have shot the Riocro who kidnapped his son. At the moment when it was predicted that John would shoot, John still obeyed the prophet's words, and the future could change, so he did not shoot and kill as predicted.

Riocro told John that it was actually a game. He was not the one who killed John's son. Someone planned all this. Then he took John's hand and was shot and killed by John. Here is a big reversal!

Danny then came to investigate the case and found the photo on the bed, saying the case was suspicious and the photo on the bed was "excessive evidence".

Danny found the minority report that the girl prophet left with the hacker, and found Rama, and told what he found. It turned out that Rama was the mastermind behind the scenes, Rama was the priest who falsely passed the imperial edict, and Rama was the designer. The man Oklo was killed by John, Rama, was the real murderer of the past murder prophecy that the young prophet had been broadcasting to John.

This involves the Prophet's recollection. I will not interpret the details. You can watch it yourself in the film.

The last prophecy of the prophet was that Rama killed John, and Rama, who also knew the ending, made a choice beyond the prophecy—suicide.

At the end of the film, the crime prevention center is disbanded, the "criminals" who have not yet committed crimes are released, the three prophets move to the island, and John's wife is pregnant with a child again.

What can be changed is not the past, and what can be predicted is not the future.

If you know the future, you will definitely do something to change the future, which may be my destiny.

In fact, the critical report is more suitable for the movie than the minority report, because the murder case that the girl prophet showed John is actually the key report that runs through the movie, and the creator mentioned before, her words seem to imply that John, she It was mentioned that Rama knew about the Minority Report, that Danny wanted to take John's place, that Rama wanted to keep the prophecy system. The same line of the prison guard is also a hint here.

In fact, everyone has a purpose. John originally wanted to use this system to find out the real murderer who kidnapped his son. Others are more for fame and fortune. If the priests have personal interests, then the oracles cannot be trusted.

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Extended Reading
  • Earl 2021-10-20 18:58:52

    There are sci-fi, in-depth, and high-level commercial films, but the prophet is overused.

  • Ellen 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Revisited it again, still 5 stars, definitely Spielberg's TOP3

Minority Report quotes

  • [Officer Fletcher, on a jet pack, lands in front of Anderton]

    John Anderton: Rough landing... have to work on that.

    Officer Fletcher: Yeah, it's this shit knee of mine.

  • Dr. Iris Hineman: The Precogs are never wrong. But, occasionally... they do disagree.