ITF Read & Watch: Minority Report (1956 short story & 2002 film)

Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Minority Report” led eventually
to a Steven Spielberg adaptation nearly 50 years after it was
written, but was the adaptation an improvement on the original?
In episode 123, Luke & James discuss both versions before
coming to a consensus on which was the superior telling of this
Sci-Fi thriller of precognition and the existence of free will.


Topics Include: PKD’s prose style, what was left unsaid in the
story, Spielberg’s homages, the effectiveness of the unique look
of the film’s cinematography, Tom Cruise's range, security vs.
freedom, free will vs. determinism, the ethics of "precrime," and
three dramatically different readings of the film's ending.


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Intro/outro music: Ross Bugden – Revelation