In the movie
“Minority Report” computers are used and integrated with human thought. Three
individuals are found that have psychic abilities. Scientists are able to
integrate the thought processes of the human beings with computers that can
decipher their thoughts and “play”, like a movie, the psychic thoughts that
they are experiencing.
Society uses
these three to be able to see crimes in the future and decides to arrest the
criminals before the crimes have been
committed. All of the cases were held in a large computer, and with it were the
seldom occurrences in which the thoughts of the three humans did not agree and
there was a discrepancy in the futuristic “reading”. These unusual cases were
called minority reports.
These minority
reports were secretly kept from the public knowledge as they showed possible
inconsistencies in trying people for crimes that had not yet been committed and
the plausibility of inaccuracies in readings.
The fact that
human beings were allowed to reign over such knowledge opened the door and
allowed for self-promoting behavior on the part of one particular official in
which he attempted to hide a murder that he had truly committed, but he was
able to fabricate an unreal memory for one of the three readers.
The climax of
the movie is when there is a minority report regarding a leading official in
the department that dealt with this form of crime prevention occurs. He finds
out about the report and attempts to reveal the inaccuracies and indiscretions
of officials in the department.
The use and
application of computers in this movie would be considered ridiculous
considering the present capabilities of computers and probable only after years
of research and development to be able to utilize computer technology to not
only read a mind, but also to transfer those thoughts into scenes for others to
watch. Also the instance that the official fabricated a memory to his a murder
that he had committed but made it appear to be a memory of one of the three
reader’s mother’s death was also far-fetched and impossible.
The entire
premise of the movie brings to question the culpability and ramification of
using technology to bring about a societal decision to incarcerate someone who
has not yet committed a crime. The fact that these decisions are seen at first
as positive and an aid to peaceful society is questioned throughout by the
viewer and ultimately revealed as an unjust indictment upon a soul that has
literally not yet committed a crime. Not only was their the plausibility that
the crime may not have happened in
the future, but that the technology was able to be used to hide criminal
behavior in another fashion was improbable at best.
The movie does,
however, open the conversation of the use of technology and law and criminal
prevention, but is able to reveal too many intricacies and inaccuracies that
can happen not only on the part of technology but also on the motivated and
self-promoting human being nature.
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