Minority Report (film) its ending. The film has a more traditional "happy ending" which contradicts the tone of the rest of the picture. This has led to speculation that this ending is the product of John's imagination, caused by hallucinations from his forced coma after he is incarcerated. As one observer mused, "The conclusion of "Minority Report" strikes me as a joke Spielberg played on his detractors—an act of perfectly measured deviltry." One critic theorized, "...[r]ather than end this "Brazil"-ian sci-fi dystopia with the equivalent of that film's shot of its lobotomized hero, which puts the lie to the immediately previous scene of
The Minority Report living condition of the precogs and the imprisonment of would-be criminals are necessary consequences for the greater good of a safe society. When his own autonomy comes under attack, Anderton retains this faith and convinces himself that the system has somehow been corrupted. Anderton struggles to find an appropriate balance between Precrime authority and individual liberty. Ultimately, Anderton decides to kill Leopold Kaplan to affirm the majority report and thereby preserve the validity of the Precrime system. Philip K. Dick: "Minority Report" (Gollancz: London, 2002) ( or ) (contains nine short stories by Dick, including most of those that were