I'm mostly interested by the way you choose to end the vid Thank you for being interested in this:-) In some ways it’s ending the vid where I instinctively felt the movie should have ended the first time I saw it but there was a deeper purpose too.
Minority Report was a movie that got under my skin a little and after spending some time trying to figure out where or why it wasn’t quite working for me I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t that the happy ending was unearned or unjustified by the plot and in fact just cutting the story short at the protagonists' capture would leave all the storylines about Anne Lively and what Burgess did to her unsatisfyingly unresolved. The problem was more that, for me, the most compelling part of the movie was its world-building aspect, the idea of this perfect society, this world without murder, utterly dependent on the enslavement and the suffering of the precogs. Like U.K. LeGuin’s Omelas story it’s a potent, if allegorical, critique of Western capitalism but the problem with capitalism isn’t that there’s a Lamarr Burgess figure deceiving the populace into accepting the bargain, it’s something that everyone who benefits from the system is complicit in, consciously or not. So I suppose my vid is an attempt to par down the story to those essentials by depersonalizing the villain but if you do that there’s then also no one person to be defeated and there can be no ‘victory’ for the protagonists.
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Date: 2008-11-01 10:58 am (UTC)Thank you for being interested in this:-) In some ways it’s ending the vid where I instinctively felt the movie should have ended the first time I saw it but there was a deeper purpose too.
Minority Report was a movie that got under my skin a little and after spending some time trying to figure out where or why it wasn’t quite working for me I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t that the happy ending was unearned or unjustified by the plot and in fact just cutting the story short at the protagonists' capture would leave all the storylines about Anne Lively and what Burgess did to her unsatisfyingly unresolved. The problem was more that, for me, the most compelling part of the movie was its world-building aspect, the idea of this perfect society, this world without murder, utterly dependent on the enslavement and the suffering of the precogs. Like U.K. LeGuin’s Omelas story it’s a potent, if allegorical, critique of Western capitalism but the problem with capitalism isn’t that there’s a Lamarr Burgess figure deceiving the populace into accepting the bargain, it’s something that everyone who benefits from the system is complicit in, consciously or not. So I suppose my vid is an attempt to par down the story to those essentials by depersonalizing the villain but if you do that there’s then also no one person to be defeated and there can be no ‘victory’ for the protagonists.