The Importance Of Eyes In Minority Report
Privacy, a dissipating concept as technology grows. People are constantly being watched whether or not they are aware of the occurrence. Through cell phones, student IDs, computers, public cameras and other electronic sources, people are monitored 24/7. In the movie, Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg in the year 2002, the idea of vanishing privacy is addressed through the motif of eyes. Eyes, in the film, are known as the identifier and the tracker of a person and their life.
The motif of eyes is first introduced in the opening scene when the viewer sees a person cutting out another’s eyes with a pair of scissors. In relation to the movie, the removal of eyes is the removal of one’s identity. Without their eyes, a person cannot …show more content…
The eyes in Minority Report are the number one way people are tracked/identified. Eyes are the internal trackers of people. The cyborgs can track where people were simply by scanning their eyes. The scene in the film where the cyborgs are trying to find John and scan every person room by room is a prime example of invasion of privacy through tracking people. In the scene, there is a couple fighting, a couple having sex and a mother and her two kids. Intimate times such as having sex or private times such as arguing are times people take for granted now; the cyborgs disregard the fact those people should be left alone. The motif of eyes being trackers validates the idea which states the government only sees its citizens as numbers rather than people. And since people are merely numbers the government can invade people’s privacy, if any …show more content…
Through the motif of eyes being the trackers and the identifiers, Spielberg warns the viewer of what to expect with the development of government programs similar to that of Precrime. Now not necessarily a program that can predict the future, but a program which is constantly monitoring the citizens of the government. Minority Report, a dystopian film conveys many messages but the strongest being, hold onto one’s identity and do not allow the government to number one’s identity in a system. Privacy is something that should not disappear simply due to the abuse of technological
The motif of eyes is first introduced in the opening scene when the viewer sees a person cutting out another’s eyes with a pair of scissors. In relation to the movie, the removal of eyes is the removal of one’s identity. Without their eyes, a person cannot …show more content…
The eyes in Minority Report are the number one way people are tracked/identified. Eyes are the internal trackers of people. The cyborgs can track where people were simply by scanning their eyes. The scene in the film where the cyborgs are trying to find John and scan every person room by room is a prime example of invasion of privacy through tracking people. In the scene, there is a couple fighting, a couple having sex and a mother and her two kids. Intimate times such as having sex or private times such as arguing are times people take for granted now; the cyborgs disregard the fact those people should be left alone. The motif of eyes being trackers validates the idea which states the government only sees its citizens as numbers rather than people. And since people are merely numbers the government can invade people’s privacy, if any …show more content…
Through the motif of eyes being the trackers and the identifiers, Spielberg warns the viewer of what to expect with the development of government programs similar to that of Precrime. Now not necessarily a program that can predict the future, but a program which is constantly monitoring the citizens of the government. Minority Report, a dystopian film conveys many messages but the strongest being, hold onto one’s identity and do not allow the government to number one’s identity in a system. Privacy is something that should not disappear simply due to the abuse of technological