Sunday, January 19, 2003

Minority Report DVD I watched Minority Report on DVD last night, and if you've already watched this movie, a second viewing is entirely in order to fully appreciate just how good it is.

Tom Cruise is pretty good in it too, which is saying something.

As I said before, despite the cheesy Hollywood ending, it stands up as a fine science-fiction film, and is certainly worthy of Philip K. Dick's original short story.

The second viewing allowed me to pick up on more of the subtleties of the movie, in particular Speilberg's very obvious allusions towards a patriotic theme, which is even more pertinent when you realise that the movie was in production whilst America was attacked on September 11, 2001.

The use of "can you see" (from the Star Spangled Banner's opening line: 'O, say can you see') as a repeated quote throughout the movie, down to the only colours outwith the bleached sepia tone of the movie being red, white and blue hinted towards Speilberg's subliminal intentions.

I also noticed the uncredited cameos from Cameron Crowe (director of Jerry McGuire, which Tom Cruise also appeared in) as a man on the subway reading a copy of USA Today, and Lucy Liu in a strange, lingering deja vu snippit as a woman with a guilty secet in the shopping mall when the pre-cog Agatha suddenly warns her not to go back home.