Minority Report

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The movie Minority Reports is a Science-fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg based on a short story by the great Philip K Dick.  A specialized police department apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "pre-cogs" .As one of the main questions the movie is also surrounding by is whether the future is set or weather the free will can alter.

Human Freedom in relation to the movie is defined as every human being or an individual has a freedom of choice to make his own decision, he is not bound by any external source. As in the movie it is been clearly mentioned in 2 situation where the pre-cogs who can see the future accurately sees a murder which is going to happen after 36 hours and that too from john Anderton and the victim is someone whom he has never seen in his whole life and though according to the pre-cogs john is going to kill him but as the movie go on we can see that at the time when that situation occurs john has a choice weather to kill him or not and so he makes a decision of not killing him but Leo Crow who is an opponent insisted him to kill him and at last Leo Crow himself press the trigger of the gun and he dies .

So from this situation of movie we can easily identify that John is having a choice and he select the option of not killing him as even though the pre-cogs saw the future but it’s in the hands of john to change or not.

As in one more situation where pre-cogs see that the Burgess (the old man) is going to kill john Anderton, but when the actual situation come where Burgess does not kill Anderton but he kills himself. so over here also the Burgess is having two choice out of which he chooses not to kill Anderton and he decide to kill himself.

However these two situations which are been described above are the most important part which represents the whole movie and the learning of the movie of having human freedom. As from all the above situation it can be justified that every human...