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dante
@dante
Minority Report Review

steven spielberg tapping into the same unabashed bile for the american system as verhoeven seems to have.

effortless science fiction. a (hah) prescient critique of post-9/11 american security state. beautifully shot. genuinely incredible plot twists. drenched in early 2000s bloom lighting.

a movie about how systems that humans create, in turn shape the people within them, often for the worse. a movie about the deep rot at the center of the american carceral state and the fascism inherent in its spread. at the core of fascism is not a desire for control, it is a desire for complete control of the other and complete freedom for the powerful.

one half star off for not going for the all the details of a gutpunch ending that this could have, but probably one of steve's best works regardless.


kukkurovaca
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Honestly it was a lot better than it had any right to be, which is not to say that it was, strictly speaking, good


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in reply to @dante's post:

I like the theory that when making this, Spielberg was style under the influence of his collab wth Kubrick on AI; and so, that he did write a dark ending: the main character never actually escapes prison and the rest of the film is the jail boss describes as "all of his dream becoming true": getting back with his wife, getting another kid, precogs being sent to Switzerland and precrime closing.

I think this has a little meat on its bones (esp due to that line from the jail Sentry) but honestly this is so close to "it was all a dream" that I don't think I vibe with it -- any sort of "it was all the dream of [x] character" is effectively an undisprovable theory