Minority Report - Precrime Intro

The movie doesn't waste any time. It immediately immerses the viewer into this possible future where digitized precognition becomes legitimate evidence for stopping crimes before they happen. As a precrime enforcement officer, Mr. Cruise scrubs the data, taking apart the imagery to narrow down the location of the suspect. It is a riveting combination of fast thinking and intense action, and I couldn't begin to imagine a better introduction for the story to follow.

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[AnthonyCL13]

It's ingenious: Schubert's unfinished symphony playing to an eerie backdrop of the murderer killing his wife. The murder is unfinished, the affair is unfinished, justice is unfinished. Perhaps the most horrifying scene in a movie where not a single drop of blood is ever shed.

[godfunk]

@AnthonyCL13 Insightful observation. Honestly never would have thought of it.

[adeemel2]

What is the song that Tom Cruise put in the computer two seconds into this clip

[godfunk]

@adeemel2

Schubert - Symphony No. 7 in B minor "Unfinished"

[TheRohBoat]

@godfunk Was the 8th not the 7th

[godfunk]

@TheRohBoat It's confusing, but you can say 7th or 8th and still be right. Go to iTunes or Amazon and try both. Same song.

[pjpless2]

That bitch deserved to get stabbed.

[bluetablepainting]

Don't put that thing on me!

[spartan4126]

this is one of my all time favorite sci fi films. the sad part is that it might not be sci fi forever.

[areyoublinddenver]

Boy, it took the office of PRECRIME to predict this, eh? that a man would kill his wife over infidelity. Like that never happens. Duh.

[momiji1901]

im gonna point out abe lincolns speech, that the kid was reciting, in my analytic essay as a last minute decision o.o hope i'll be alright. xP i dunno much about american history sigh...

[Gaijinsider]

Did he close the front door?

What?

DID MARKS CLOSE THE FRONT DOOR?

Negative...the front door is open...the front door is OPEN!

Time horizon, 30 seconds....

[soulextracter]

@AnthonyCL13 That was beautiful

[Ataubaq]

@godfunk Interesting premise, except for the fact that we already do have a name for a "future" murder. It's called attempted murder. Why the hell isn't it treated as such? It's not as much free will v. predetermination as it is just legal inconsistency

[ambitiouspictures]

@AnthonyCL13 well spotted. Know what else I like about this sequence? When Tom Cruise has 30 seconds to stop the murder, it plays out in real-time; just as we hit the 30 second mark he intervenes!

[AnthonyCL13]

@godfunk Another thing you notice is that as he waves his hands around, manipulating the screen, it is the same thing that a conductor (maestro) does when he conducts a symphony. The parallel being that he is directing destiny like a conductor directs a symphony.