The Last Star In Hollywood

The Last Star In Hollywood


24: Minority Report

March 29, 2024

This week, a glimpse of the future with Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi thriller Minority Report. What are the big ideas? When did Cruise start running? Where can we buy one of those holographic computers?



Content warning: violence, suicide, body horror, surgery, gore, drugs, dystopia





Unanswered Questions:



  • Is there anything to the deification of the pre-cogs?

  • What actually happened to Sean?

  • How do we meaningfully resolve the free-will paradox?

Further reading:



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