oranos's Replies
Not the case, though.
The whole premise of the movie is that what the precogs see, ALWAYS happens. But, When Agatha is removed by Tom Cruise, and they escape and eventually, they find his son's killer and Tom Cruise has a gun which he intends to use to shoot the guy (also predicted by the precogs), Agatha reminds him that he has a choice (to not kill the man, but in that scene, Cruise accidentally kills him).
But, that premise of "infallible prediction" proves to not be so infallible by the end of the movie, since Tom Cruise does not kill his former boss (as predicted by the two remaining precogs). This is why they disassemble that agency at the end. That's the whole point of The Minority Report: that everyone has free will, and predicting what they MIGHT do is not the actual reality that might/might not happen.
posted 2 years ago in Minority Report (2002)