Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report is a 2002 American  neo-noir   directed by  Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story  of the same name by  Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in  Washington, D.C., and  Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where " PreCrime", a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on  foreknowledge provided by three psychics called " precogs". The cast includes  Tom Cruise as Chief of PreCrime John Anderton,  Colin Farrell as  Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer,  Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and  Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. The film combines elements of  tech noir<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;">,  whodunit<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;">,  thriller<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> and  science fiction<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> genres, as well as a traditional chase film, as the main protagonist is accused of a crime he has not committed and becomes a fugitive. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-whodunit_3-0" style="font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);">[3] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> Spielberg has characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot". <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ko13_4-0" style="font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);">[4] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> The film's central theme is the question of  free will<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> versus  determinism<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;">. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set and known in advance. Other themes include the role of preventive government in protecting its citizenry, the role of media in a future state where technological advancements make its presence nearly boundless, the potential legality of an infallible prosecutor, and Spielberg's repeated theme of broken families.