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    a dystopian setting, with a totalitarian government centered on war and hatred. Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) is a film in a futuristic setting with a system which predicts future murders so that citizens live a homicide-free utopian life. Winston Smith is the main character in 1984. His rebelious views on his society and government cause his

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    The film Minority Report catalyzes a specific message through its usage of film effects and actors. Dystopian film is created through the film’s plot, often enforcing an over-arching method of government corruption and control through its setting, actors, and specific lighting. These key elements utilize the overall tone of the film, and it is the specific use of actors and technicality that ultimately set the film up for success. Minority Report exploits this usage of blocking and setting in order

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    Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction mystery thriller Minority Report, is an interesting commentary on the age old struggle for human beings to find a balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. The premise of the film is that in the future, 2954 to be exact, the city of Washington, D.C. has instituted a pre-crime police unit which harnesses the “powers” of three young people with precognition to detect murders before they happen. The main character is police chief John

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    The film Minority Report catalyzes a specific message through its usage of film effects and actors. Dystopian films are created through the film’s plot, often enforcing an over-arching method of government corruption and control through its setting, actors, and specific lighting. These key elements utilize the overall tone of the film, and it is the specific use of actors and technicians that ultimately set the film up for success. Minority Report exploits this usage of blocking and setting in order

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    Minority Report 1. Preemptive arrests is when an individual is arrested before committing a criminal act. In my opinion, I don’t agree with the idea of preemptive arrest. The reason is because I believe that an individual should commit a criminal act in order to be arrested, not prior to. If a person does not commit a criminal act, then what is the point of them being arrested? In addition, in the film the precogs used their vision so that the police could see how the crime would unravel, and with

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    The Report is Done “Minority Report” is a short story that was published in 1956 written by Phillip K. Dick. John Anderson is the head of Precrime, and ends up on the run for his life. Precrime uses Precogs, to predict the future so crime does not happen. Anderson’s name came up on a card, so Anderson has to clear his name. First Anderson has to find out if it is an error in the system or is the system failing. Anderson then commits his own prediction and murders to prove that the system is not

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    Future essay In the movie and in the book minority report and in Fahrenheit 451 there were a lot of new technological advances. For example in Fahrenheit 451 there was parlor walls that interact with you i think that in 50 years there might be something like that. While in the movie minority report there eyes scanners and fancy cars that move in all sorts of directions i think that this will not happen and that the future in fahrenheit 451 is much more realistic. More than likely in the future

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    have good effects, such as leading to preventing bad decisions or diseases, however, the negative aspects outweigh the positive things because it would lead to stress and take the focus off of enjoying life. Destiny is inevitable. In Spielberg’s Minority Report and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the main characters learn what their futures hold. This causes fear and stress, as they do everything they can to avoid their fates. In “DNA as Destiny,” David Duncan wishes his DNA had not been tested. Although

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    After viewing the cinematic film, “Minority Report” by Stephen Spielberg, the task to make an interview about the movie was handed to me. My job was to interview two people about the futuristic technologies in the movie. For the analysis of their answers I will not use their names to keep their anonymity and privacy, since they did not want to share those information, hence I will call them ‘Interviewee #1’ and ‘Interviewee #2’. However they agreed onto to tell their age, since I needed to interview

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    mental disorders have always been disregarded. However, by omitting pedophilic tendencies, mankind has been willingly contributing to the never ending battle of child molestation. Pedophilia suffers from the same construct as the movie “The minority Report”. Even though someone portrays the signs of pursuing

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