Themes in Minority Report film is a combination of whodunit, thriller, and science fiction. Spielberg has characterized the movie's story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot." The film's central theme is the question of free will vs. determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set and known in advance. It also concerns itself with the role of preventative government in protecting its citizenry, which was apt of the time of the picture's given America's debates over the government's expanding powers after 9/11. "Minority Report" presents a
Technologies in Minority Report that movie--minus the precogs, of course." The company is installing hundreds of the scanners in Bank of America locations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has a contract to install them on several United States Air Force bases. It still can't work as fast as it is in the movie, but with the progress of computer technology, it is predictable to reach that level before 2054. Companies like Hewlett-Packard (HP) have announced they were motivated to do research by the film, in HP's case to develop cloud computing. In the film, Anderton uses vehicles which can be both driven manually and