Minority Report

I finally watched Minority Report (MR) today, coz of someone who made me curious about it!! During a conversation with few ppl in PU, I told them in MI (dunno I or II), Tom Cruise used other person eye lens to open one of the safety door. She told me about eye plantation in MR. So I decided to rent this movie while taking my rest at home.

In the first part of the movie, I was thinking I really don't like this kind of movie. The technology is beyond logic to me. Anyway, I won't say much about the sci-fiction part. I would like to analyze the philosophy behind the story.

Danny Witwer about Pre-Cogs "In a way, they give us hope, hope of the existence of divine. It's interesting that some people have begun to deify the Pre-Cogs."
Jad (one of officer) replied "Well, come on chief. The way we work, changing destiny and all, is clearly more like clergy than cops."

First of all, it is clear that almost all human are looking for something eternal. That's why they created a divine image through statues or natures. Human created their own god!! Well, exactly the same in this movie, they created Pre-Cogs and deify them. But wait!! I didn't see any human worship to the Pre-Cogs. Of course NOT!! If they worship the Pre-Cogs, that would be "kerusakan manusia yang terhebat" (I don't know how to say in English lolz). As Pak Tong said before, the most corrupted sin is that human created a creator, then worship the creator that he created.

Deification is not only about worship like in church or worship to baal. So, what does deify mean? How can I say they deify the Pre-Cogs? Deification always comes with these two characteristics: Faith and Dependence. It is clear that Tom Cruise said many times that the Pre-Cogs is infallible!! He has faith 100% that the Pre-Cogs would never fail to predict any event in future. Although they never explicitly deify the Pre-Cogs, they depend so much on them to decrease murders. They can't even do their precrime task without these Pre-Cogs.

The concept of God in Pre-Cogs certainly was not taken from Christian Trinity. Pre-Cogs to some extend disagree with each other, while Holy Trinity's will and action is always synchronous. Probably, the concept of God was taken from Hinduism, where one of their gods creates more impact than others. I won't comment further about this.

However, the point is human created gods in this movie!! Why? Because human wants to become god!! This movie is created in humanistic spirit, what they want is to reduce the crime by their own way. Human always see phenomena; crimes are phenomena, while sins are actually the cause of the problems. In this movie, Precrime is acting as god, they can change so-called destiny or fate of other people. They can see what will happen in future with Pre-Cogs help and try to prevent the murder.
Jad "The way we work changing destiny and all, is more like clergy than cops."

Well, this case mostly happens in Indonesia as well. If you watch the advertisement, ketik REG RAMAL to 9388. People always want to know their future, and try to alter it as if they are god. What I am thinking is: why they want so badly to know their future? I think this is because the spirit of evolutionism. Tomorrow is always better than now. Today is always better than yesterday. With the hope of technology development, it always gives false hope to give better life for people. What I can say is the better technology doesn't necessary make human better, but it always makes human feel and think themselves as god!!

This writing is my subjective opinion for no one is objective!! It might be extreme. Yes, probably. But it also reminds us that thousands movies out there probably are not biblical. Every day when we read books, see advertisement, or watch television, there are some values which are unconsciously implanted inside our mind. Therefore, it's important to learn the right worldview, so we know how wrong is others!!