The Heart of Minority Report | 20th Anniversary Retrospective and Analysis
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0:00 Intro
1:07 Part 1: Critique
13:36 Spoiler Warning
14:38 Part 2: The Color Red and Everybody Runs
18:18 Part 3: Eyes, Sight, Clarity vs. Blindness
24:12 Part 4: Water
29:15 Part 4.5: Religious Symbolism
35:37 Part 4.8 Final Chapter Prologue: Rain
40:07 Part 5: Urban Decay, Nature, Life
44:24 Part 6: Reflections and Altering Fate
48:00 Part 7: A Few More Notes
51:07 Conclusion: Gotta keep running!
52:52 Dedication
A deep dive into the themes and visual motifs of Minority Report. This one's a doozy.
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Minority Report is extremely ambitious in its visual storytelling.
Minority Report is extremely ambitious in its visual storytelling.
HELL YEAH
Hell yeah!
Wow!
Wow!
I actually hadn't watched "Minority Report" been on my list for awhile, but this bumped it up to the top!
There are layers and layers. It's an absurdly ambitious movie. Thanks for watching!
I have never seen this movie, but now I plan to!
It's movie-watchin' time at Tiffany house. Hopefully this didn't spoil it for you. The movie is very good.
Really enjoyed this. Well done and thank you for putting it together. On the eyes motif, Spielberg played with a similar theme in his directorial debut, the pilot episode of Night Gallery in 1969. Joan Crawford plays a wealthy blind woman who pays a homeless man $9,000 in exchange for his eyes. I won’t spoil anything, but it ends with shattered glass not unlike the scene with Anderton and Crow.
Well that's extremely interesting! Clearly an idea Spielberg had for a while. I'm going to have to check that out. Thanks for sharing that and thank you for watching. I'm very glad you enjoyed it. I've got several other videos analyzing movies if you're interested, but if I'm being honest, this one is my best.
One of the few movies that doesn't use mirrors in a pretentious or basically at face value way when it comes to symbolism. Such a great video!
Thank you! And yeah, the use of mirrors here is really nonobvious and cool.
Amazing! Why isn't this your full time job already?! Seriously!
TH-cam algorithm no like me. But thank you. I know people would like this if they could just see it.
This was awesome. The cohesiveness and insightfulness of your commentary made this video very immersive. Really compelling. Keep going! You're doing something valuable.
Thank you man. Happy to hear that. It's hard to know whether my points are comprehensible when other people aren't in my head, so I'm glad you got something out of it. Like always, I greatly appreciate the support and encouragement. I usually don't ask this, but if you can think of anyone who might enjoy this, please share it. I don't think my heart can take it if this one only gets 125ish views, and the algorithm just seems to miss me every time.
So happy to finally see this in my sub feed! Great work as always Jordan.
Thanks for pre-reading the script so I'd know whether or not my points here were an incomprehensible mess!
@@BabyArms Always happy to help
Really good video, was worth the wait. I'm not just saying that because I like the sound of your voice...
Thank you cowboy! Glad you liked it. I'm over the moon happy with how this turned out but also despairing a little because my stuff just doesn't get seen much and I'm not sure what to do about it. But people like you (and you yourself in particular) really make it rewarding to make these. Seriously, thank you.
Watched the movie two nights ago in anticipation of this video. What an excellent analysis! There are so many motifs I didn't pick up on, but once pointed out become impossible to ignore.
Here are a couple more motivic Easter eggs I don't think were mentioned explicitly: Sarah Marks's *red* hair, and Dr. *Iris*.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to put this together. It's a great reminder to pay more attention to the present and notice the textured layers present in good art.
Thank you! And thank you for pointing those out. I had considered Iris Hinneman's first name (plays into the nature theme) and just didn't mention it-wasn't sure where to fit it into the already long script without breaking up the flow of things-but I'm not sure I'd ever have put two and two together about Sarah Marks's hair color. Good observation. There's also Dr. Solomon Eddie's assistant, Greta van *Ey*ck. That one is almost painful, but it's certainly there. There's so much to the visual storytelling in Minority Report it's unreal. The one that really threw me for a loop when I noticed it was the panel over Anderton's face when he and Witwer are fighting in the car that's being assembled. That observation was a very last-minute addition to this video. Just staggering the precision and detail in just about every shot.
@@BabyArms also plays into the eye theme. Spielberg!!! *shakes fist*
@@hmacccc Yeah, I just realized that after I typed the comment. Literally just made that connection. IRIS. That's almost certainly what they were going for, more so than flowers, though I think that was intentional too. Thanks Henry. You've opened my eyes even further.
This analysis is great.
I’m grateful to have found you here.
It’s made me want to watch the film again and analyse it.
I’m a PKD fan , a dickhead , and I appreciate his gnosis .
There’s something lost in this film version, perhaps something that jars only me. (Bar the colouration, i know of a lot of people whom dislike it!)
I hope to capture some PKD in my writing.
now at the end of your video, I see new things not apparent to me the few times I’ve watched this movie, mostly through eyes distracted by the palette.
I also see that the film will forever hold a deep meaning for you and an eternal comfort.
Whatever the general consensus, art is often a subjective experience .
Doubly so when it speaks to you personally.
Best wishes
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Hey, thanks for this! It's really cool to hear from someone who's big into the writings of Philip K. Dick. I was just talking to another commenter a day or two ago about how I'm not always the biggest fan of this movie's tone, and it is straight up a different story from the original short story, but as you said, there's a lot there beneath the surface that definitely warrants consideration. As popular and well-liked as the movie is, I think it's actually underappreciated even by most of its fans. It really is so rich and dense with meaning. I appreciate you taking the time to write this comment and am very, very glad you found and enjoyed the video. Out of all the movie analyses I've done so far, I think it's my best work. Feel free to come back and share anything you notice about the movie after you rewatch it! I'd be interested in your take.
Its been a hot minute, but this was truly a quite good movie. And as usual, your video is spectacular. I won't spoil too much of what you said so that people can experience it themselves, but especially your reference to living the moment instead of preserving the moment called me back to another recent video of yours. Still rang true.
I'd say too, your voice was is excellent for this sort of content, but also the way you USE your voice. Some people can be dry and boring ... You are VERY not that, inviting, warm, and engaging. I truly love your work. I'm going to have to give this movie a rewatch soon!
I'm thrilled this was finally released, I've been looking forward to it. It completely dunked on my expectations.
Wait for it: Thank you so much man. I'm actually fairly monotone when I speak in day to day life. It's something I've worked on for these videos. I'm glad it's paid off. I wasn't sure. You never really know about yourself, I guess.
Yeah, "preserving versus experiencing" has definitely been on my mind, and I hope that didn't color my interpretation of that aspect of the movie in a way that made it inaccurate. I think it's a theme that's present with Anderton's home videos as well as Burgess with his Precrime program. It sharing that with my honeymoon video is a heck of a coincidence.
Also, no worries about spoilers for the video. I think that's to be expected in comment sections. Admirable of you to avoid spoiling the movie for people though!
Thank you again. I'm really happy to hear that it wasn't some incomprehensible mess and that you processed everything I threw out.
I usually don't ask this, but this took ages (7-8 weeks) to make. If you wouldn't mind sharing it on Facebook or wherever, that'd help me a ton.
@@BabyArms Can do! It is 100% worth sharing.
@@SamuelGrahamDoesTCGs Thank you so much. I think the content speaks for itself, but it just isn't being seen. I can't express enough how much I appreciate the help.
Also, he's not a big shot leading man, but Neal McDonough is an almost criminally underrated supporting character actor.
As usual, you're in depth analysis of the tools used for symbolism and more is illuminating. This is one of my favorite Sci-fi films, and Spielberg one of my favorite directors, but I've never taken to looking at the deeper meanings of this film. I've always thought it was a thought provoking, well done action-thriller-sci-fi film, but it obviously goes even deeper than that (which should be expected, considering Spielberg's other work). I'm going to have to re-watch it while keeping these things in mind. Great analysis man. Well thought and articulated. Well worth the wait.
Thanks cowboy. It's an extremely, ridiculously ambitious movie. I'm glad I gave it a closer look. It seemed "good, if a little silly" to me at first, and the thought that I might have gone on thinking that way for the rest of my life is horrifying to me now. It's jumped up through the stratosphere in my estimation.
Awesome analysis as always, but for some reason this movie baffles me through it's entire run-time by the sheer number of moments where basic logic simply vanishes. Things like how John's eye print wasn't removed from accessing the HQ, how Jhon managed to talk through the headpiece with perfect clarity, how Lamar was able to perform the drowning - like no other forces wondered where the victim is ? and so many others. The writers of this movie ... Anyways, awesome job and keep them coming!
Hey, been a while! Glad to see you, and thanks for the kind words and your thoughts. I guess there are a ton of stories with little logical blind spots like what you're talking about here. As a writer myself, I live in fear of making some mistake that'll make my whole piece come apart.
You seen this year's horror movie Cobweb? I'm currently working on a deep dive analysis of that movie.
@@BabyArms Cobweb ? New horror ? Suggested by you ? Guess I will now need to see it :). Can't wait for the new analysis.
@@lautz88 Ah, to be clear, I'm not sure I'd recommend the movie, exactly. I watched it and have a bunch to say about its themes and ideas, and I personally find that stuff really interesting, but the movie itself in terms of entertainment value was just pretty decent/goodish in my opinion. I don't want to lead you astray. But if you have a spare hour and a half and want something vaguely eerie, it might be worth a look.
@@BabyArmsWatched it. I would say it was an interesting, relatively good popcorn movie. Something to watch on a rainy night. Can't wait for your take / analysis on it.
@@lautz88 That's about how I feel about it too. It wasn't bad, but the most fun I had with it was going through a second time and taking notes to start putting my script together. I'm doing my best to get that video made ASAP, but life's so busy these days it might be another week or more.
masterclass of texture in cinema, i've learned a lot, and Minority is one of my fav movies, watched it in a cinema in Madrid. videos like yours help one understand why a movie feels to be good. thank you very much
Thank you! I'm so glad you found this video and got something out of it. Check out my others if you're interested.
@@BabyArms count on it!
Great analysis, made me want to rewatch this movie again. Although you should have included how this movie is a retelling of Oedipus Rex tragedy.
Hey, thanks very much for watching and commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed it. You know, I'm embarrassed to say that the Oedipus connection never occurred to me, not one time, but now that you've said it I realize there's definitely a lot there with the eyes and whatnot. Very valuable comment. Thank you again. I've got several other movie critique/analysis videos, if you're interested. I've got a ton of my plate right now, but I'm going to try to find time in the coming months to complete another one on David Fincher's Se7en.
@@BabyArms I'm shocked but by doing a quick search there is very little information about Oedipus Rex and Minority Report. Just like Oedipus John kills his "father" (Lamar Burgess) and has incest with "mother" (of precrime) when she kisses him on the lips. Other moments in the movie where blind people see the truth are pretty obvious.
Another thing going in the movie is art. Cogs projecting their visions on the screen in a dark room is very similar to cinema theatre. And John Anderton montages their vision to get a meaningful picture (a movie) that he can show the audience (the officers? dont remember who exactly are they). So John is an editor and director.
Dr. Iris Hineman is listening to classic music while taking care of flowers ( also a form of art). Gideon plays organ for the prisoners. Cogs are reading literature after being released. Dr. Solomon P. Eddie is cured by literature in prison. Lara Anderton deals with her son loss better than John because of her photography art.
Unfortunately, I don't really like Se7en because all the detective work is just time wasted because the villain simply walks in and gives up. Also Brad Pitt acting is pretty bad, especially in the famous box scene (and I usually don't notice or care about bad acting in the movies so it's the only generally liked movie where I do not like acting). What do you think of Fincher's The Killer? For me it's the best movie of 2023 without a doubt
Well done! I had forgotten how much I liked this movie.
Thanks Marlena. Glad this could help you remember. For me, I didn't realize how much there was to like until I started to dig deeper. I liked it fine, but I didn't respect it the way I do now.
Wow. One of the best Analysis on a movie I have ever seen. There is much more depthand subtlety in *Minority Report* then the mere crime- or politic-related perspective offers. The symbolism is heavy. Saw the movie two or three times, but never realised it. Good work Baby Arms.
Thank you! Yes, the movie is amazing in its depth and subtext. I kept making new connections between ideas while rewatching the movie and writing the script for this video. As famous and beloved as Minority Report is, it's still largely underappreciated because so few people realize how deep it really goes.
I´m sure you watched Eyes Wide Shut (1999) @@BabyArms ?
@@benjaminsente7430 I haven't watched it.
Analysing EyeWideShut would be a *MAJOR* major task for you @@BabyArms!
The following could be incorporated in an analysis of yours (should you ever chose to make it public)
BUT . . . *SPOILER ALERT*
--- Don´t read the following until you watched the movie ---
There is a color-codified subtext in the movie (that is even hinted at during the course of the story).
IN MY OPINION , if we take the movie at face value, the codification is manifested threefold:
No 1: The Colours of the rainbow, contextualiszed (purposefully revealed) in certain scenes of the movie (actually througout the majority of the movie).
No 2: The Medium, dominance and (sometimes) the object, the colours are attached to.
No 3: This is a big maybe: The colours are also attributed objectively attributed to Christmas(-decoration) and have a inherent Christmas-related meaning outside of the movie (i.e. in Western Culture of Christmas).
---> I think ALL THREE dimensions are interconnected (i.e. part of Kubriks vision). Since all 3 seem to flow together and since I am not culturally educated enough (and couldn´t find anything online about No 3), I was never able/ willing to decode the chiffre.
Do you think No 3 is actually part of the code?
Since Kubrik wasn´t able to finalise the movie, how can we read the whole movie as an unmitigated piece of art?
It´s a christmas movie @@BabyArms
comprehensive, not beyond comprehension. excellent video, thank you sir
Hey, thank you! I have a couple other deep dives like this one if you're interested. One is for The Silence of the Lambs, and one is for Cobweb, an overlooked horror movie from earlier this year that's smarter than it has any right to be.
@@BabyArms the one with Homelander?!? On it. I hope you're continually inspired to make takes as good as Minority Report--Cruise and Spielberg on top of their game, it's a masterpiece caught in the wake of two others ahead of their time (AI, Vanilla Sky).
@@jonathanfeldheim6554 Yes, that one! Cobweb wasn't my favorite movie, but it was an extremely fascinating one to analyze. And good suggestions. I really enjoyed Vanilla Sky. I'm sorry to say I've never gotten around to watching A.I., but I've always intended to.
I've got a ton of stories I want to give this sort of analysis to but not that much time. My next one will likely be either Se7en, Lake Mungo, The Others, or The Blackcoat's Daughter. But I actually don't know for certain. Cobweb wasn't planned at all, but I watched it and then went and spent about a month making that video. So who knows? But keep an eye out for whatever it ends up being.
One thing, though; I also do a completely unrelated series on this channel for my late brother, and I have a couple of those lined up over the next month and a half. But I'll still be doing movie stuff too.
Magnificent analysis.
Beautiful message at the end ❣️
Thank you. I'm humbled that you watched to the end of such a long video. I've got several other movie critiques/analyses if that's your type of thing.
Really enjoyed this. Fantastic analysis
Very glad you liked it! There's so much beneath the surface of this movie.
Brilliant review. Watching again
Thank you! I'm honored. Please show it to anyone you think might enjoy it. It's definitely one of my best videos, but the TH-cam algorithm hasn't really favored it for whatever reason.
There is literally nothing better than a good deep dive analysis video.
Thanks cowboy.
Best analysis I've seen on the film. These kinds of pieces are the reason I love TH-cam
Thank ya cowboy!
Fantastic job with analysis.
Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've got another deep dive like this coming out this month for the recent horror movie Cobweb.
Great analysis
Came back here after watching the movie again , enjoyed more as an older/greyer Person . I noticed the heavy rain similarities this time around too .Good luck growing your channel , you have talent
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, and yeah, that water motif is all over the place but still fairly understated. If you know anyone you think might enjoy these videos, maybe send them a link!
Will do
The video game heavy rain .I saw that it took a lot of inspiration from this movie .
@@absymarsi2892 I never knew that. I haven't played Heavy Rain, but it and games like it are generally on my radar.
Hey its the miltary guy you sat next to on the airplane ride back from south korea.
Hey! As promised: "Ah, hey"
Best one yet my dude
Thanks Hubcap. I think so too.
Beautiful breakdown. Keep it up 👍🏼
Thank you dedsi! Glad you enjoyed it. Can I ask how you found the channel?
@@BabyArms it was on my recommended. I watch similar movie analysis/background videos.
@@dedsi8848 You have no idea how happy I am to hear that. Been trying to be seen for a while now. Thank you again.
@@BabyArms That's great to hear! Happy New Year's! 🥳 I hope this year will be more prosperous than the last 🤗
@@dedsi8848 Thank you! Happy New Year and all the best to you and yours too.
I lost my brother from an overdose as well. Now I’m currently in school for law enforcement
It's inspiring to me when people dedicate their careers and lives to trying to prevent other people from going through the hardships they went through. Sincerely. I'm sorry about your brother, and I know he'd be proud of what you're doing. Thanks for your comment, and thank you very much for watching this video!
@@BabyArms after my brother’s death is when I saw minority report, and I love movies based on Philip K. dick’s work (except the total recall remake). But I wasn’t in my typical pay close attention to the meaning. And I got addicted to alcohol, and had “plans” but when I decided to not go through with them, it was just like an unknown future appeared. I still was trying to run away from my traumatic childhood for years, but now I choose to run towards things, no matter how uncertain things may be, after all, gotta keep running
Spot on
Thank you. Check out my other videos. My analysis of the horror movie Cobweb is about as solid as this one.
nice work husband.
Thank you love!
The eye switch was done by a criminal. This sounded like the basis for a sequel. The criminal use of his real eyes.
I love the video
Thank you very much!
4:20 The silly parts are all Steven Spielberg. He has a ton of stuff like that in his movies.
Yeah, I figure it's just his style and what he likes. It doesn't really detract from a brilliant movie.
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You performed brain surgery reviewing this movie by isolating and dissecting what I will presume to be most of the motifs that Steven Spielberg embedded! I will freely admit that my viewing of the movie only slightly skimmed the surface in that regard, but after just yesterday watching the movie, and then your review of it today…I realized a deeper appreciation of the depth of symbolism Spielberg aspired too, and while also enjoying your abilities as the narrator not least of which is your voice.
Thank ya thank ya. Brain surgery. I like that. The further into this particular pocket of Spielberg's brain you reach, the further you see that it extends.
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Why does your voice sound like that? Did you have an injury or some kind of condition?
I actually do have some sort of issue with having to clear my throat a ton that I haven't been able to figure out, but I think it's related to the air quality where I live (South Korea) and the presence of black mold in the building I lived in for several years, including when I made this video. It turns my throat into hamburger meat. The entire process of recording is really hard for me because I make a lot of mistakes and have to repeat myself a ton, always clearing my throat, and I have to drink a lot of water. That aside, though, that is fairly close to how my voice just normally sounds. I've been told it's an interesting voice (usually positively) most of my life.
I dont mean to burst your bubble but are you the green lantern??
I'm not sure how to answer that.
I hate the colouration of this film.
It’s insipid. Like a weak mix. Ironically, it lacks clarity. It’s not gritty, but mushy and bland .
It might work with a non Spielberg film. But his style jars with this. Particularly the slap stick.
ET was fantastic.. But I feel Spielberg has always been the wrong director for sci fi.
Schindler’s list was fantastic. Like ET, it’s grit comes from emotive realism. Being black and white, it’s gritty but with contrast . And of course there’s the red coat. Which does a stellar emotive job, that the red ball doesn’t live up to.
You know, I think I partially agree with you that Spielberg might not have been the best person to direct this movie. I like it a lot overall, but I've never been big on the goofiness and had to look past a lot of that to start to appreciate the movie more. It just feels like a lot of the time it has the wrong tone for the subject matter.
I say partially because another commenter informed me a while back that one of my favorite pieces of symbolism (the stuff with reflections and shattered mirrors) was very likely Spielberg's idea, which makes me think that probably a lot of the visual metaphors I liked were his idea. It's still very possible that another director might have done a better job in many ways, but then it'd just be a different film with different things to appreciate.
I'm loath to suggest a remake, but the premise is rich and intriguing enough that I'd probably be very interested in seeing another attempt at adapting it by someone like, say, Denis Villeneuve. Heck, Christopher Nolan could probably do something really great with it now that I think about it.