Minority Report

Questions to Consider

1. Is it justifiable to punish innocent people for the greater good of society?

2. Should personal freedoms be sacrificed for the sake of security?

3. Would you rather live in world with a Pre-Crime division without murder, or one in which crime and murder are present?

4. Is Lamar moral or immoral? John?

5. Where are the private spaces in the society depicted in the film? Think about life today in 2019. Are we headed towards a society like Washington D.C. of 2054?

Notes and Quotes

• Washington D.C. 2054- in six years, there has been no murder in D.C.

• Precogs can predict crime 4 days out

• Red ball- crime of passion

• No premeditation anymore

• an echo is a precog de-ja-vu

• The Halo- what is put on the accused- is there irony in this?

• "That what keeps us safe also keeps us free."

• "arresting a criminal who has committed no crime"

• "it's not the future if you stop it."

• "The precogs don't see what you intend to do, only what you will do."

• Why murder and not other crimes?

• "Science has stolen most of our miracles"- hope of the existence of the divine

• Precog unit is referred to as the "Temple"

• "more like clergy than cops"

• the flaw in the system- "human"

• Neuroine- street drug

• "Everybody runs, Fletch."

• Who invented precrime? "a series of genetic mistakes"

• The Woodhaven clinic- children of drug addicts

• "The precogs are never wrong. But occasionally, they do disagree."- This is the MINORITY REPORT- an alternate future for some 

• "Who wants a  justice system that instills doubt." - isn't that what the American justice system has?

• Thermal scanning of residents in a building- how far from this are we as a society?

• IRONY: "it really is wonderful to be a precog."

• "a series of genetic mistakes"

• "you can choose"

• Lamar Burgess- were his decisions moral or immoral? Right or wrong?

• "You created a world without murder. And all you had to do was kill someone to do it."