Minority Report movie

In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.

The Minority Report is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick first published in 1956. It is about a future society where murders are prevented through the efforts of "precogs," three mutants who can see the future. It was made into a popular film in 2002.OverviewThe story looks at the paradoxes and alternate realities that are created by the precognition of crimes when the chief of police intercepts a prediction that he is about to murder a man he has never heard of.

It also touches on the danger of a powerful post-war military during peacetime, the main theme not revisited by the film (see below).Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, "The Minority Report" raises the question of the existence of free will.PrecrimeFounded thirty years prior to the story, Precrime is a system that has replaced the previous system of discovering a crime and its perpetrator after it had been committed (with punishment given as a penalty for such action), with imprisonment before the crime taking place to prevent it happening. As one character says in the introduction to the story, "punishment was never much of a deterrent and could scarcely have afforded comfort to a victim already dead". It is specified that Precrime deals solely with cases of murder.How the system worksThe system of predicting the future in reports is carried out by three mutants, called precogs, all of whom have the capacity to see up to two weeks into the future. The precogs sit in a room which is perpetually in half-darkness, constantly talking nonsense to themselves that is incoherent until it is analysed by a computer into predictions of the future. This information is assembled by the computer into the form of symbols before being transcribed onto conventional punchcards which are ejected into various coded slots; when cards are produced, they appear simultaneously at Precrime and the Army GHQ, in order to prevent corruption.The PrecogsPrecogs are created by identifying the talent within a "subject" and cultivating it in a government-operated training school — for example, one precog was initially diagnosed as "a hydrocephalic idiot" but the precog talent was found under layers of damaged brain tissue.The precogs are kept in rigid position by metal bands, clamps and wiring, which keep them attached to special high-backed chairs. Their physical needs are taken care of automatically and it is said that they have no spiritual needs.

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Minority Report Cast

• Anna Maria Horsford
• Eugene Osment
• Frank Grillo
• James Henderson
• Jessica Capshaw
• Keith Campbell
• Kirk B.R. Woller
• Klea Scott
• Max von Sydow
• Neal McDonough
• Patrick Kilpatrick
• Richard Coca
• Sarah Simmons
• Steve Harris