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Minority Report (2002)

Film
DirectorSteven Spielberg
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Form & technique
  • The narrative revelation that Lamar Burgess created a false "echo" to hide a murder. → The Soft Arm of the Law
  • The film's final scene, where Anderton proves he can choose not to kill Leo Crow.
Tropes
  • Ubiquitous retinal scanners and personalized advertisements.
  • John Anderton's gestural data interface. → Haptic Visuality
  • The Pre-Crime system's promise of a world without murder. → The Excess of Jouissance
  • The Pre-Cogs (Agatha, Arthur, Dashiell) floating in the Temple. → The Reduced Human
  • The term "Minority Report" and the logic of Pre-Crime.
  • Anderton's holographic home movies of his lost son, Sean.
  • Agatha's role as a traumatized, powerful, and yet passive female oracle. → The Monstrous-Feminine
  • The temporal paradox of Pre-Crime (acting on a future that, by being acted upon, never happens).

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