[2017-12-11]
This is a movie I watched with English subtitles. Although the movie itself is a bit brain-burning, it did not affect my viewing.
Everyone hates murder, and it takes away the people you hold dear, leaving behind endless pain, lingering thoughts, and lingering remorse: if...if...I had imagined, if before the murder, We can predict and punish those criminals, what will happen? My first reaction was beautiful, shouldn't the world be a beautiful place without murder? But there is always a paradox in things: if you have sinned, it is too late, if you have not sinned, what sin is there? This film imagines and thinks about this matter from one angle.
In the film's story setting, in 2054, precrime became a crime, and the "prophet" with predictive ability gave clues. According to the clues, the police would arrest the "prisoner" at the last moment when the crime was about to be carried out. But the near-perfect mechanism also has drawbacks. Prophets are not omnipotent. They will echo those scenes repeatedly and occasionally dispute the predicted future. The solution is for the police to manually deduplicate the echo, and the minority obeys the majority in disputes.
The entire film consists of four murders. The first one, six years ago, the congressman murdered the Prophet's mother in order to get the Prophet with the ability to see. The congressman used the first loophole to first hire the killer to commit the crime according to the method he described, but the killer was stopped and arrested by the detective of the crime prevention center, and then the congressman used the same method again to actually murder the mother of the prophet, and the detective They misunderstood the two murders as echo repeats and failed to find out. In the second case, the inspector killed an innocent person who pretended to be the murderer of the inspector's son under the conspiracy of the congressman. The detective who was on the mission found that the prophet foretold his crime, and he discovered the so-called truth step by step based on these clues, but he did not commit the crime according to the prophet's foreknowledge, but innocent people committed suicide for compensation. In the third case, the congressman killed the FBI agent who discovered the murder of Xian and his mother during the time brought out by the prophet and the detective. Fourth, the congressman chose to commit suicide in the face of the detective after the last incident. In fact, there are two pre-murders that were stopped in the film, one is the crime that will be committed after the husband catches the rape at the beginning of the film, and the other is the attempted murder of the killer.
The film gives an insight into this paradox through these four cases, four murders that were never stopped, the first case where the congressman used his agency to deceive the police detective, and the second case where the detective used his agency to terminate His criminal impulse (here thinks of the last perfectly designed crime in the seven deadly sins), but innocent people choose to commit suicide, the prophet in the third case has been unpredictable, and the congressman himself repented and chose suicide in the fourth case. In the two premeditated murder cases that were stopped, the husband did not have the urge to kill, but the killer was just a pawn.
In fact, the core point of this paradox is, is the future fixed? If the future is fixed, then no crime is no crime, and if the future is variable, the predicted future is inaccurate. Only the true facts can be convicted of a crime. We have beautiful motives to stop crime, but in the face of time, we can never do anything about it.
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