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Movie Review: Minority Report
The plot of this movie is staged in a hypothetic future: Detective John Anderton works at Washington D.C's "Precrime" unit: A branch of the police force dedicated to arresting killers before they commit the crime; based on the visions of three psychics. When Anderton discovers he has been identified as the future killer of a man he has never met he finds himself on the run from his former colegues. And a tangled web of intrigue starts to unravel as he learns that the visions of the three psychics are not always identical; a fact which is being kept secret so as to not weaken the public credibility of the "precrime" system.Thus "Minority Report" takes up the theme of preemptive crime fighting. In the end, of course, Anderton ends up in the scene of the predicted murder, and a nottoo convincing point is made of "freedome of choice". Although another aspect that I would like to stress is the point that the eventual death of the victim; the prediction of which was the reason why Anderton was being chased through the movie would of course never have occured had he not been deemed a future killer and sent on the run in the first place. This is of course a hint also to my comments elsewhere on the self fulfilling tendency of profiling and other kinds of labelling.
And more profoundly; with the emphasis on the coverup, this also points towards the question of wether the system is intentionally drawing on this tendency. (As the saying goes; without crime the police would be out of a job). An especially relevant question in view of the recent uncovering of the aledgedly "anti"-terrorist conduct of danish secret service infiltrators (who were actively encouraging suspected - or prospective - terrorists to commit terrorist activities, and helping them get explosives).
Thus "Minority Report", is an interesting movie, especially when viewed from a more political perspective. If you haven't seen it already then it is absolutely recommendable.
In the context of self fulfilling stigmatization and nazi style persecution see this example