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hinkley 4y ago
It troubles me rather deeply how many people I have talked to about that movie who completely tuned out the whole pervasive advertising subplot. Didn't see it. I was talking about the ads on every vertical surface in the mall, not long after the movie came out, and someone said, "I guess I didn't notice." This is how democracy dies. Not with a bang, but a whimper. Ready Player One is much more on the nose about it, but it goes by so fast people likely missed it too: > we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures
- vijayr02 4y ago
  https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/minority-report-spielberg-movie-tom-cruise/661274/ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/minority... > But Minority Report, though it was written and filmed before 9/11, might be Spielberg’s most prescient work of all. Tasked with predicting our near future, he imagined an America filled with dazzling inventions but rotting from the inside out, one in which the erosion of civil liberties is thinly veiled by chest-thumping braggadocio about technology’s power to solve every problem. Spielberg's eye-scanning cameras and autocratic cops could easily be exchanged with the overreach of the PATRIOT Act, or the NSA listening in to casual conversations. The film’s warning is one the world is only beginning to heed. We may not have precogs dreaming of murders in police precincts, but so much beloved technology of today is just as effective at watching and constricting our lives.
  - hgsgm 4y ago
  - ElevenLathe 4y ago
    Most (probably all?) of the social criticism in the movie comes from the Phillip K. Dick source material. It was a good movie IMO but Spielberg is not exactly anti-establishment.
    - hinkley 4y ago
      But there's a very popular song that says he is! Who am I to believe? A rock star or some random person on the internet?

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It troubles me rather deeply how many people I have talked to about that movie who completely tuned out the whole pervasive advertising subplot. Didn't see it. I was talking about the ads on every vertical surface in the mall, not long after the movie came out, and someone said, "I guess I didn't notice." This is how democracy dies. Not with a bang, but a whimper. Ready Player One is much more on the nose about it, but it goes by so fast people likely missed it too: > we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures

vijayr02 4y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/minority-report-spielberg-movie-tom-cruise/661274/ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/minority... > But Minority Report, though it was written and filmed before 9/11, might be Spielberg’s most prescient work of all. Tasked with predicting our near future, he imagined an America filled with dazzling inventions but rotting from the inside out, one in which the erosion of civil liberties is thinly veiled by chest-thumping braggadocio about technology’s power to solve every problem. Spielberg's eye-scanning cameras and autocratic cops could easily be exchanged with the overreach of the PATRIOT Act, or the NSA listening in to casual conversations. The film’s warning is one the world is only beginning to heed. We may not have precogs dreaming of murders in police precincts, but so much beloved technology of today is just as effective at watching and constricting our lives.
- hgsgm 4y ago
- ElevenLathe 4y ago
  Most (probably all?) of the social criticism in the movie comes from the Phillip K. Dick source material. It was a good movie IMO but Spielberg is not exactly anti-establishment.
  - hinkley 4y ago
    But there's a very popular song that says he is! Who am I to believe? A rock star or some random person on the internet?