"Minority Report", who is the minority and who owns the report

Pascale 2022-04-19 09:01:04

After reading some movie reviews, someone mentioned that the male protagonist does not know who he is going to kill or why he is killing others, so why can the prophet foresee this possibility? What exactly triggers the foreknowledge?

The director did not explain how Rama planned to lure the male protagonist to kill, plus various Hollywood bugs, making the film seem full of loopholes. The fact is that there are no loopholes in the setting of the system, and there is no problem with the mechanism of the system, but the divergent interpretation makes the system look extremely inconsistent.

Knowing that the prophet can foresee the future, Rama prepared the future for the male lead, but the male lead who knows the future can change the future.

The prophet can only foresee murders, one is intentional murder, the other is impulsive murder, and the male protagonist is predicted to be intentional murder.

Rama deliberately murdered the Prophet's mother, only the video of the murder scene is left, why Rama murdered, and Rama's plan before doing it will not be recorded.

There are three conditions for murder to occur: the murderer wants to kill the victim, the murderer can kill the victim, and the murderer really kills the victim. What Rama provides is condition 2, what the male protagonist can decide is condition 3, and the condition that existed before Rama is set is hidden condition 1: the male protagonist has read to himself thousands of times, he wants to kill and kidnap him Son of man.

Whether it is "the prophet deliberately let the male protagonist see the picture" or "Lama was ready to frame the male protagonist before the male protagonist noticed it", all speculations ultimately require one condition, which is the male protagonist's killing intent.

What caused the pre-judgment was not the impulse of the male protagonist and the enemy to meet, but the hatred in the male protagonist's heart, that is, the part that the director did not directly shoot. Rama understands very well that an honest male protagonist, a male protagonist who believes in the system, even if he knows the whereabouts of his enemy, he will not act confidently and calmly.

Judging from the setting of the next scene, Rama prepared a very sensational condition: a photo of the victimized child in one bed. In the face of such a perverted enemy, the male protagonist will go crazy just thinking about what happened to his son. So ideally, the male protagonist should kill on impulse.

However, in the precognition clip, the male protagonist bid farewell to the enemy with a blank face, and said a shy Nara. The Lord's killing intent detects that the conditions for murder to occur are complete, and the result it sees is a presumption that should happen when the conditions are met.

However, we have all seen that the male protagonist in the real result was crying with snot and tears...

It's just that Tom Cruise is so innocent and cute, as if he can't even hate, the audience won't think at all, his pain is not just as simple as making him addicted to drugs and work, he also wants to stab a knife into it. The bodies of criminals also want to see their blood flow warmly.

The system does not ask the reason for this hatred or the struggle in the human heart, so the result of the pre-judgment is intentional murder.

The Prophet Agatha also clearly told the male protagonist that there is no "minority report", the prophet's predictions have never been missed, and there is no internal contradiction, the destroyed "minority report" is a forgery "echo".

In the same way, in the death of Rama, the male protagonist released the prophet's prophecy, which turned "accurate" into "uncertain". Rama committed suicide, and from the forced selection of "uncertain", he abruptly found the first Three options.

There is no refutation, which means that there is no possibility of turning over. When other people's ideas are independent of each other, we can only get help from the outside world, but can't get support; and when other people's ideas are guided, gathered, and become a consensus, minorities report mistakes and don't even need to seek help. But even so, people still have to tell themselves: find the minority report, must find the minority report.

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Extended Reading
  • Clare 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Two questions: 1. The problem of precrime is attributed to a kind of human power penetration, and it is not to examine the determination and processing of precrime itself. Lao Si's sci-fi never fails and misses the point

  • Rosalee 2021-10-20 18:59:39

    The topic is about determinism and free will, but the most entangled part of this film is that the presupposition of the prophet seems to give the basis of determinism, but the advancement of the film clearly sets free will as an irrefutable fact, so this film Are you shooting a ghost?

Minority Report quotes

  • Dr. Iris Hineman: Find the minority report.

    John Anderton: How do I even know which one has it?

    Dr. Iris Hineman: It's always in the more gifted of the three.

    John Anderton: Which one is it?

    Dr. Iris Hineman: The female.

  • Rufus Riley: [to Agatha] Are you reading my mind right now?

    John Anderton: Get up.

    Rufus Riley: [to Agatha] I'm sorry for whatever I'm going to do and I swear I didn't do any of that stuff I did.