Homework 8

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• Could this really happen? I don’t think this whole scenario could happen, because mutated humans, I think, couldn’t have the computing capacity to calculate the future. However, many things in the movie could happen.
• What could really happen? One example of what could happen would be with the transit system: automatic cars regulated so that humans cannot make errors with them; streamlined and efficient. Also, there is a lot of physical interaction with humans and computers (e.g. the main character going through the video clips with gestures of his hands), not simply a mouse and keyboard which is what is traditionally used today. There is a large possibility that technologies such as SixthSense may be largely developed and used by future society.
• What if they found genes that make it more likely for someone to commit a crime - what should they do? If someone is found to be more likely to commit a crime, he should be placed under surveillance – the amount of surveillance in accordance with the likelihood of the individual committing a crime. Another thing that could be done is counseling and psychiatric evaluation to see if someone would be up for committing a crime.
• What is the movie "really" about? I think the movie is two-sided. On the one hand it is made out to be a visually pleasing action film. However, it also seems to touch on the moral issue of predestination and if humans have the right to act and change – or try to change – the future.
• What themes found in other movies and stories or in the popular imagination are present? One theme popular today is that the future will be pristine, clean, and basically a utopia. Everything is free of dirt and waste in the movie, and crime and disorder seem to be well contained.
• What methods and tricks does the movie use to make the audience like it? The film is shot so that the action is present with the viewer for a pretty good amount of time. It’s not a film that leaves the audience steeped in dialogue or left hanging in an emotional scene. And it uses various film techniques and modern day technologies to keep the audience interested in the plot as well as the futuristic society and technologies presented in the film.

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