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Hes a movie star!
The feeling was mutual Cruise was also excited about the possibility of appearing inBrazil.
The rising stars management, however, had other ideas.
He said, I cant.
My people wont let me do it.
Is the future set, as the PreCrime system assumes, or is there such a thing as freewill?
This is the thorny question at the heart ofMinority Report.
Cruises protagonist is an intriguingly flawed one, too.
Could it be that the precogs vision of the future is actually correct?
Fittingly for a film that is about predicting the future,Minority Reportis itself eerily prescient.
From our present vantage point in 2014, their ideas seem worryingly close to the mark.
I wanted all the toys to come true someday, Spielberg told Roger Ebert in 2002.
The Internet is watching us now.
If they want to.
They can see what sites you visit.
In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us.
The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel were part of the medium.
The scary thing is, well lose our right to privacy.
An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.
All of these things are already becoming (or indeed, have become) a reality in the present.
In this regard,Minority Reportis just as relevant a science fiction film as it was a decade ago.
