Minority Report The plot revolving around this movie consists of two important aspects, the first being the precogs and the second being the Precrime division. To understand this movie you need to have developed a clear understanding of the purpose each of these valuable attributes bring to the underlying themes of the film. The precogs are known for their ability to see future images of crimes that have not been committed yet. These images are called previsions. Then the Precrime unit comes in; they are a educated police force, which detains criminals based off of the previsions the precogs have seen. This is all based on the foreknowledge of the precogs. Minority Report represents a future where the government has removed all the privacy …show more content…
The whole premise of this situation is that they are arresting individuals who have not broken any laws. They are allowed to get away with this because they will eventually break the law by committing a murder. To justify this, we see a moment in the movie where John rolls a wooden ball off a table and Danny Witwer catches it preventing it from hitting the floor. John questions this and Danny claims that he caught it because it was going to fall. But it didn’t fall; he was able to stop it before it happened. Thus proving the fact that he prevented it from happening does not change the fact it was going to happen. Regardless if he caught the ball or not it was going to hit the floor. The legal aspect of this brushes on the moral dilemma if these arrests are ethical. The person accused of these future murders is not present, nor are they allowed to provide a defense. They are convicted in that moment and there is nothing they can say or do about that because according to the Precrime division these crimes were already committed they are just catching them in the act just before they do. And that is all the evidence they need. John being on the run for a crime he knew he wouldn’t commit, assumed that the images the precogs were seeing were faulty and his attempt to clear his name would be to prove that the minority report