Attempted Murder Paradox

Leonard 2022-04-20 09:01:02

At the beginning of the film, I was a little confused, thinking that it could reproduce the scene of the real murder that has already happened, and then travel back to the past to change the present future through time. time to stop the murder and change the future.

Anyone who has watched "The Butterfly Effect" and "Back to the Future" knows that time travel is not a good behavior, whether it is changing the past or changing the future. The longer the time drags on, the greater the impact on the current world. It's also the reason why I don't regret the decisions I made before. If I go back to the past and change the choices I made at that time, everything I have now may be in vain, and I will experience another group of people and other things. It must be better than now. If you are a gambler, I didn't say it. No one really thinks that if the bad choices in the past are changed, the good things they have in the present will not change, and the same is true of changing the future.

However, the setting of this film does not involve time travel. All actions take place in the present moment, which is easy to understand and easy to operate. What the film presents at the beginning is to show the best side of the "prophet" and prevent the A person who kills the heart but attempts to commit a crime, protects one life after another, so that criminals have no chance to take advantage of it, which is safer and more reliable than superheroes.

At the beginning, the director gave the theory that "the Prophet" is absolutely correct, the foreseen future will definitely happen, so 0 mistakes lead to the arrest of the protagonist, which is also the beginning of emotional ups and downs, how to uncover the mystery step by step after being framed The veil has become the most important and attractive plot. Indeed, this part is very exciting. Avoiding pursuit, plot reversal, and the truth behind the conspiracy, but these are not enough to sublimate the final theme. Just having fun is enough.

The plot tells us that the protagonist has a choice before the murder, and the director also has a choice before the murder, because the police are not at the crime scene, and the successful case that has only been shown twice is that the police arrived at the crime scene, and the green hat Boys and black hat boys have no choice. In the same way, if the crime scene police of the protagonist and the director arrive, then they naturally have no choice, because these four people are all charged with attempted murder, and all of them are working at the crime scene.

The point where this drama should be sublimated is to prove that the "prophet" theory of 0 errors is wrong. It is wrong to forcibly set the crime of attempted murder when the suspect is not at the scene of the crime. Maybe it will be discovered by conscience. But the show has not been able to overthrow this theory from beginning to end. The so-called choice of the protagonist or restitution is only based on the premise that the police are not present. And if a person wants to find out with conscience when he starts at the crime scene and stop in time, it is only that he has not committed homicide, but it is still attempted homicide, so he wants to clean himself up? This can only be another proof that the "prophet" was right.

The whole plot did not make a fuss before the scene of the crime. The scene foreseen by the "prophet" did not happen. It is not necessarily an attempted murder. It is also possible that a choice has been made before the action, a new life, and let go of hatred. These are Don't they deserve to be forgiven, don't they know how to dig deep?

If these are explained well, the film can definitely go to a higher level, but this film just filmed the conspiracy theory and reversed the plot, plus the long plot, it does not seem so good.

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Extended Reading
  • Ellen 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Revisited it again, still 5 stars, definitely Spielberg's TOP3

  • Onie 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    The first three quarters are desperately compressed to give the final outcome under the premise of continuity and focus. Colin was supposed to be saturated with his own characters to drive the plot, but instead he was dragged by the plot to appear rather thin. The initial hysteria of the Prophet was disturbing.

Minority Report quotes

  • Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: Imagine, a world with out, murder. 6 years ago, the homicidal rates had reached epidemic proportions. It seemed that only a miracle could stop the blood shed, but instead of 1 miracle, we were given 3, the precognitives. Within 3 months of the precrime program, the homicidal rates in the District of Columbia had reduced 90 percent.

    Lamar Burgess: 6 Years in the precrime prgram, and there hasn't been a single murder.

    Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: Now, the system can work for you.

    Attorney General Nash: We want to make sure that this great system is what will keep us safe will also keep us free.

    Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: On April 24, vote yes on the national Precrime initiative.

  • Lamar Burgess: [as he is given a revolver] Revolvers, like this one, were given to the generals at the end of the civil war by their troops. The chambers were loaded with 5 gold plated bullets to symbolize the end of the destruction and death that set the country apart for 5 years. Now, with Precrime going national, I think we all can look towards a time where none of us will have to discharge another firearm ever again.

    [the people applaud him]

    Lamar Burgess: Oh, enjoy yourselves, enjoy yourselves. That's an order.