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Minority Report (2002)
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Minority Report is a futuristic film which portrays both elements of a dystopian and utopian future. The film renders a much more detailed view of a near-term future world than that present in the original short story, with depictions of a number of technologies related to the film's themes.
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Brilliantly realised, complex and humane, Minority Report is easily on a par with Blade Runner as one of the best adaptations of Philip K Dick's work ever made. There hasn't been a science fiction film this good for 20 years. Forget shiny buildings and action-packed chases - Minority Report has both, but it has so much more, elevating it far above the status of popular pulp.
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Where Minority Report succeeds is by dishing up a little bit of everything – to see no one leaves the theater disgruntled. There are helpings of science fiction marvel, there’s some interminable tension and a real human story underneath it all. The specials effects are damn impressive to boot.
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Minority Report is one of those rare films that really does incite thought. Strongly philosophical, political and sociological it deals with a variety of complex issues that the majority of Hollywood films shy away from, e.g. determinism, justice and authority. It's ... highly entertaining and superbly acted, with, as you might expect, first rate direction. The plot is fast paced, gripping, fluent, and avoids becoming episodic or didactic as many Sci-Fi films are. Whilst the action scenes are nothing special, they do keep you absorbed and are not overdone.
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Along the way, Minority Report raises questions about social freedoms as well as existential or moral freedom. Washington, D.C. may be a murder-free zone, but it’s ... a city in which talking billboards know your name — and spending habits — and policemen can send creepy arachnoid robot room by room through a tenement building, optically scanning and identifying every warm body they find, whether the inhabitants happen to be sitting on the toilet, having sex, whatever.
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Minority Report ... figures the place of visual technologies in these societies of control. The new corporate methods of control are figured in Minority Report in the ubiquitous advertising images and retinal scans. Marketing becomes the central aspect of social power in the societies of control:
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