The movie is, in these respects, quite different from the story. In the story, the precog isn't particularly "normal" and couldn't have been unnoticed among regular people. The 3 precogs see 2 visions of the murder and 1 without the killing, but nor really for the same reasons I got from the movie.
All in all, I like the story better, but the movie had better visuals. :-) --Ben Michael Dinowitz wrote: > In my ego-centric mind, I believe I know Dick. The problem is, there are > people who know Dick better than me. I know people who have actually met Dick > where I've never had the pleasure. The problem is that I enjoy Dick. Whether > it's in book form or a movie, Dick is great. My other problem is that I'm > late in seeing Dick's movie. This means that any idea I have about it is all > cocked up. :) > > While watching Minority Report I came to the realization that they never > caught the real mastermind behind the entire movie. For those that want > spoilers, the basic premise is that a cop in a 'future crime' program is > shown by a precognitive to have committed a murder in the future. What > follows is him being chased down by his own team to stop him, him trying to > find the person he's supposed to murder and find out why. In the end, it > turns out that his boss was manipulating him into killing someone because the > cop was on the trail of a unknown murder that the boss did years ago. > The movie makes it seem that the boss was manipulating everything to cover up > the murder. The truth is that the boss is just as much a pawn as the cop is. > The true mastermind? The female precognitive. > It was her 'vision' that put the cop on the trail of the old murder. It was > her vision and hers alone that said he would be a murderer. She kept the cop > safe and guided him away from his old team until he committed the murder she > had foretold (actually a setup and then suicide, but....). Everything fell > into place for the boss's murder to come to the front. And who did he murder > to make the precognitive want to plan all this? Her mother. > So in the end she got everything she wanted. Freedom for herself and the > other prerogatives and her mothers murderer dead (by suicide). All nice and > neat without her being anywhere near the suicide scene. A perfect crime. > At least this is how I saw the movie. But then again, I don't know Dick as > well as I think I do. :) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:192783 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
