Minority Report Part 1

Even though the Minority Report movie starring Tom Cruise adds in some events and sequences the short story written by Philip Dick is still a very exciting story. I believe that the author is almost helped out by the fact that the audience is naturally drawn to wanting to know more about or being curious of what they dont fully understand like the idea of precrime. Along this same line the idea of precrime is not that unrealistic of a possibility in the near future. This causes the audience to pay closer attention as they want to know what precrime does exactly and how it is justified in convicting a man or woman of murder before he or she committs the crime.

If I were directing the film I would give more of an insight or even begin the movie with a clip of a flashback to when precrime was first invented and the divide it must have caused in the citizen population between those who wanted it to be used and those who did not. The reason for this being one of the first questions I asked myself when reading this piece and when I saw the movie was "isnt this against their rights?" The story is a very interesting and provocative piece however and there is not doubt in my mind why they decided to make a motion picture out of it.

In order to make this short story a feature length film you would need to add in a couple of scenes that are not hampering to the flow of the story like my earlier suggestion and perhaps create a semi flat character in which the main character can interact with once or twice in the movie. This would add lenghth,perhaps a twist and would allow for the story to remain for the most part in its original form.

The plot, conflict and irony are pretty well taken care of by the original story, the plot must take place in the future since we do not have precrime in our present day, and the irony being that society will one day vote away their personal rights in a sense for a feeling of security and will allow the government to go further than it ever has. The conflict is that the main character has spent the majority of his professional career serving as a precrime officer and believing in the systems ability to prevent crime and then he is convicted and his beliefs change instantly.