12/27/2022 0 Comments Fan casting for minority report movieI've re-watched it a couple of times, though. Switched the context from the end stages of an absolutely apocalyptic war here on earth to another planet, but otherwise, yeah, fairly faithful. I felt Screamers was probably closest to the source material. Somehow that fact makes me hate it even more. That said, it's not a bad film, at least if you don't take it too seriously. This movie was a bigger insult to its source material than any movie I have ever watched. Since seeing this in 2001 I've had a very hard time making myself sit down in front of any Phillip K. The movie ripped absolutely all of the substance out of the story. It didn't only miss the point, it reversed it. Then the movie turned it into a Tom Cruise action vehicle, where the lead was a bad-ass renegade cop fighting to destroy the evil pre-crime system. Extremely clever, and one of Dick's best. He would have had absolutely no reason at all to even think of killing the dude except for the pre-crime prediction. Pre-crime said he killed a dude (a politician), he knew pre-crime worked, so he killed the dude. The reports were taking each other (and access to them) into account. The reports disagreed because they were not (quite) perfectly synced in time, and he had access to them. The original story was about a retiring senior civil servant who committed murder specifically to protect and validate the (entirely working) pre-crime system in the eyes of the public. I’d wager the odds of us ending up in a similar society aren’t too far off. The film is almost 20 years old, and were basically half way to 2054. I could see something similar becoming a part of our “normal” life in the future. The scene that has always stuck out to me was when the spiders are released into the apartment complex by the police to locate Tom Cruise and they reach the arguing couple who stop screaming at each other mid-sentence to allow the spiders to scan their retina, then continue the brawl like nothing happened. Obviously, our reality is lacking the anomaly of the Twins, but with the progression in AI and surveillance (gotta love the Patriot Act) it gives me chills knowing that the writers of this film so accurately projected a realistic future of what life could look like for the year 2054. Now, watching it as an adult, and given the world we live in today, the movie is eerily accurate in regards to technology and law enforcement. It was released in 2002, and I remember watching it when I was much younger and then the concepts were comprehensible, but seemed somewhat far fetched at the time.
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