minority report

[rmd]

see the film, but don't read this before you see the film.

so, i was riding home from this and thinking "wait, how did it all bootstrap? how did the boss guy (burgess?) arrange for john anderton to go to that room to find the guy pretending to be sean's killer?

and i was thinking "aw man, it was holding together so well until this point. harrumf. stuuuupid bootstrapping problem"

and then i realized... it's all agatha's fault. she "arranges" everything. burgess decides to kill anderton because anderton is on to the fact that there are minority reports. burgess finds out that anderton knows this because anderton goes to him after seeing the various missing data streams in the corpsicle room. he goes to the corpsicle room (yeah, they're neither dead nor frozen, but you know what i mean - the prison warehouse place) because of the vision agatha shows him when she grabs him.

and then i was happy again.

Comments

[johnd.livejournal.com]

hehe, i read it and haven't seen film and know not seeing film was a good choice, it sounds way too confusing.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Yep! It all hung together. I was pretty pleased with it.

Although I really, really wish that they'd trained the woman who played Lara that L-a-r-a is not pronounced the same way that L-a-u-r-a is. I wouldn't have minded, except EVERYONE ELSE in the movie said Lara and she said Laura. :P

Maybe, but actually...

[kjc.livejournal.com]

I had a similar thought process about Anderton killing Sean's killer. If he's capable of resisting, then THAT should've been the vision - him nearly but not quite killing this guy. But I didn't think Agatha could "rig" a vision - not for all 3 of them.

So I was contemplating it and starting to have "ooh, but it DOESN'T work" whining but then I realized that what the trio seems to see is INTENTION and Leo (the guy pretending to be Sean's killer) had tremendous intention that Anderton would kill him. So they saw the future as it would happen, but not under the circumstances we are lead to believe will frame it.

But I agree, Agatha started the tumble of events by showing Anderton the particular vision of the drowning

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

mmmm.... good.