Sci-Fi+Minority+Report

Study Questions: Notice near the beginning of the film there are characters introduced that enable the other characters to explain complicated technology.


 * 1) What is the Department of Precrime?
 * 2) How are crimes solved?
 * 3) List some examples of advanced technology from the film so far?
 * 4) What does the halo do?
 * 5) What is "Clarity"?
 * 6) Why does John throw the cereal box?
 * 7) Whose side of the argument are you on? (from the ball falling scene)
 * 8) Why do the Pre-Cogs only see future murders? Why not rapes or assaults?
 * 9) Where are the criminals/future criminals kept?
 * 10) What problems does John have? (personal, professional, emotional)
 * 11) How does technology make John's escape so difficult?
 * 12) What is strange about John's walk through the mall?
 * 13) What does a sick stick do?
 * 14) How were the Pre-Cogs made?
 * 15) What is the flaw with Precrime? (What is the Minority Report?)
 * 16) Why does John have his eyes replaced?
 * 17) How does technology make the Precrime officers' search of the apartment buildings easier?
 * 18) How are the lives of the people who live in the apartment building different than the lives of the people who live on John Anderton's building? (think of how much privacy they have in their own homes)
 * 19) How does John change what his face looks like?
 * 20) Why does John save his eyes after the operation?
 * 21) What does Agatha mean when she asks, "Is it now?" and says "I'm so tired of the future"?
 * 22) Who is Leo Crowe? What did he do?
 * 23) Why did Lamar kill Danny?
 * 24) Who is Anne Lively?
 * 25) How does technology help prove John's innocence?
 * 26) What happens to the Precrime program? Why?