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P02: Film Review - Minority Report
Basic Plot:
John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is an officer of 'precrime' team in the year of 2054 where their job is to prevent and stop the crimes from happening by the predictions of three physics. After the prediction shows where and when the crime is going to happen, they travel to the future to stop and catch the criminal before they commit the crime.
Later when he found out that he is the one who is going to commit a crime but he doesn't even know the victims, he decided to find out himself while the 'precrime' team is hunting for him to prevent the crime from happening. Things he did including; changed his eyeballs, hiding from the team. With the help of Agatha, he managed to found out that its a trap set up by Burgress where everything is done by him. Both Leo Crow and Agatha's mother, Ann Lively is murdered by Burgress
When the 'precrime' team found out that Burgress is going to kill John, they managed to reach on time.
John and his wife, Lara reunite after their misunderstanding over the lost of their child. Agatha and the physics live their own life after the incidents.
- The End -
Impressive and Unimpressive about the movie:
The most impressive part is the use of technology to make life easier. For example; John used only his fingers to control the screen. Everything can be done by moving just fingers and yet without direct contact with the screen. Besides, the use of jellyfish-like-creature amazed me. They can trace the existence of human and work for the precrime team.
Otherwise, the most unimpressive part of the movie is the flow of story. It was confusing at first where i couldn't define the purpose of the precrime team as they carry out their job to stop the crime. For me, the overall flowing of story is quite boring where there is no main focus or highlight in the movie. I even fell asleep while watching it!
Relationship between context (architecture/technology and story):
Overall, the technology used is suitable for the story where most of the things done by using technology. It fits the plot well where it shows that in the future, where precrime team exists, they can't work without technology. Therefore, they use it as an equipment to prevent the crimes from happening in the future.
Besides, the use of technology such as cars moving vertically, eye balls scanner, physics reading from the brain shows that the prediction of the future by the author where people are creating technology to make their life easier. That is how the precrime team can be created using the technology.
Intention/message of the movie:
I think, the intention of the movie is to show how dependence of human beings on the technology. Almost everything can be done and even crimes can be predicted and prevented using the technology. But, although it can be predicted, still, there will be minority of them are wrong, as what shown in the movie.
In my opinion, the message that the author trying to express was a success. Human beings depended on the use of technology. Sometimes, there might be wrong. Certain people are just believing in what they see but some, they choose to find out the truth when they know it's not true.
Impact on design thinking:
Yes, i think so. Because of the technology shown in the movie, people tend to imagine how will the future looks like. By imagination, something will be created, either to protect or to destroy. Time traveling machine, people moving around in the air, cars moving vertically, invisible screen are those imagination that the author had for the future. That is why the technology is used in the movie where it happens in year 2054. It will definitely having impact on design thinking.
That's all.
Yet Another Day ; Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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