Minority Report (Film) Literary Elements

Steven Spielberg

Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow

Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, and Neal McDonough

Science Fiction

English

Nominated for one Academy Award: Best Sound Editing

June 21, 2002

Gerald R. Molen, Bonnie Curtis, Walter F. Parkes, and Jan de Bont

Washington D.C., 2054

Through the point of view of narrator Chief John Anderton

Scientific, Solemn, Serious, Investigatory, Futuristic, Gritty, Dark

Chief John Anderton vs. Director Lamar Burgess

The conflict is that Anderton has been set up to carry out a murder, and must survive in this futuristic world so he can prove his innocence.

The climax occurs when Lamar Burgess shoots himself.

The process of the Precog technology is all one big foreshadowing.

Allusions to popular culture, other films, novels, and government.

Lamar Burgess' choice at the end; either get locked up, or tank the reputation of PreCrime, his life's work.