How does minority report end

John Anderton gets accused of murdering a man he has never even met, causing him to run from Pre-Crime and prove his innocence. Sign In. Edit Minority Report Jump to: Summaries 6 Synopsis 1.

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Lamar kills a woman who seeks her child just because it could get in the way of the success of his project. He then gives the murder a picture of an echo so that the technicians would just ignore it. This is where the quality of human perception is questionable yet again. They see death but they write it off since their beliefs are altered by a technology-driven society. Lamar is already exposed before John arrives on the scene.

Lamar now faces a choice between proving the efficiency of his Precogs or admitting that the system is flawed and that future can be altered even after it has been observed.

This brings us to our observations about the film. Do we wish to gauge the idea of the film with the regular Spielberg standards or the story itself? It all finally comes down to what you want to believe in. Is it something that the pre-emptive notions will cause you to think?

Or will it be something that you have clearly seen with your own eyes? In the end, systems may fail, justice can be denied and suffering will be caused just because human visions are flawed. Sometimes it's to sell your crap as scanners read your eyeballs note that Spielberg chose to base identification around eyes—our instrument of vision—rather than faces and sometimes it's the government to track your every movement like when John boards a train.

John is a drug addict, and his drug is supposed to provide "clarity" even though he just gets high and hides in the past of happier times with his lost son. When Agatha grabs John for the first time to show him a particular vision, she asks him, "Can you see?

It's a world with a filthy underbelly where the surveillance state hasn't solved poverty or improved people's lives. Rather than a pleasant dystopia, Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski shoot almost the entire movie in greys and blinding lights, a world where nothing is clearer, just more sterile until you need a crime like getting your eyeballs replaced.

But even in the scene where the cops send "spiders" around to scan everyone's eyes, it's all a matter of what we don't see. The cops are looking for John, but they miss all the human tragedy around them whether it's the scared family or the bickering couple or the dilapidated surroundings.

As is often the case with Minority Report , just because something has your focus, that doesn't mean you've seen the whole picture. That's the trap I fell into. I was so focused on Spielberg's narrative tendencies that I missed understanding the film holistically.

Instead, I viewed it structurally, and the structure seemed to hinge more on the inevitably of fate even though, as I saw on this recent viewing, fate is upended multiple times. The second choice arrives in the film's conclusion. Leo Crow's supposed murder was spun as a "human flaw" in Precrime, due to officers failing to reach the scene in time, and John Anderton's death would have been treated the same way.

Precrime could still have gone national, and Lamar's legacy would have been preserved. In choosing not to shoot John, Lamar proves very publicly what John had already discovered earlier in the movie: that a person who knows their future is able to change it, and therefore the precogs' visions are not certain. This leads to Precrime being disbanded and the precogs being released. Like many other stories about time travel and futuristic visions, Minority Report asks the question of whether the future - once known - can be changed.

Terminator: Dark Fate answered this same question by suggesting that certain things are inevitable and will happen despite efforts to avert them; after Sarah Connor prevented the rise of Skynet, another computer system called Legion took its place and led to a similar downfall of humanity.

When Leo Crow dies in almost the exact same way that the vision predicted, despite John choosing not to kill him, it seems that Minority Report might be drawing a similar conclusion. Danny Witwer criticizes Precrime at the start of Minority Report , asking how they can be certain that a murder would definitely have happened. In response, John rolls a ball towards him. When Witwer catches it in order to prevent it from falling, John posits that the fact that he caught it doesn't change the fact that it was definitely going to fall.

Unlike the rolling ball, however, John and Lamar are able to choose not to fall metaphorically speaking. The element of human agency in the equation is what makes the precogs' visions not entirely certain, and is also responsible for the creation of minority reports. Along the way, Minority Report also questions the ethics of punishing someone for something that they were going to do but haven't done yet.

A favorite topic of ethical debate is whether or not it would be justifiable to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. The action is generally said to be flawed in two respects: first, that killing baby Hitler is no guarantee that some other person will fill the place in history that Hitler did, with the same outcome; and second, that even if killing baby Hitler would prevent the Holocaust, you would still be killing an innocent baby.

In Minority Report Precrime faces the same dilemma, and justifies locking up future murderers on the basis that there's no reasonable doubt that they wouldn't have killed their victim. The ending of Minority Report proves that such reasonable doubt exists, making the case that no one's path in life is completely predetermined, and people can choose differently even when it seems like there's no turning back.

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