Movie time

This week I watched Minority Report starring Tom Cruise. This movie focuses on catching criminals, well more specifically, murderers, prior to them committing the actual crime. This has rendered a peaceful world where no murders have taken place in a long time. This movie is not to far off into the future, only half a century ahead of now. The way technology has changed just in the last few years; I can only imagine what it will be like in 50 years. This movie is centered around computers that help assist where a pre-crime may be committed, and of course the pre-cogs, which are mutated humans who can see into the future. The pre-cogs are able to see most all murders a few days before they will happen which allows the law enforcement find and stop the criminal before a murder is committed. Some murders are a crime of passion and it can be difficult for them to see into the future for these, sometimes the law enforcement team is only given an hour to try and stop these from happening. Once the pre-cogs see the vision of the murder take place, the team must rely on their huge floating touchscreen computer system to assist in finding where these crimes which actually take place. These super computers only seem to be used by this super law enforcement team, as the other civilians in the movie seem to live an ordinary life much like in today’s time. When you see clips from their lives and their homes, you do not see any super computers or any great technology for that matter. Without these super computers that allow them to search for anyone using advanced satellite technology, the pre-cogs visions would be almost useless.

As we end up seeing, one of the team members watches a vision of himself committing a murder. Knowing he would never actually do this, and knowing that the pre-cogs visions would show this, he goes on a mission to show that these visions could potentially be false, and the whole system is flawed. He goes on the run, taking one of the pre-cogs with him, while trying to figure out what happened. He has to use even more advanced technology to stay a step ahead of his own team, who has the tools needed to find him. One way the law enforcement team finds criminals is through iris scan bots. These tiny computers fly around and scan the iris of everyone in a general area. If the iris scan matches, they alert the team and they are able to apprehend the criminal. He goes to a shady doctor who does an eyeball transplant, black market style, so that he can complete his mission. Although he is eventually arrested, and the pre-cog returned, he is able to be freed when a vision comes through and shows him being the victim of a new crime, which cannot happen since he is detained.

This movie moves kind of fast, and this was the third time I have seen it. Without the advanced technology of the computers all the way to the bots, this law enforcement division would never exist. I like watching movies that try to predict the future, and this one has many advances that would be good and could help out the human race.