Wednesday, February 6, 2008

noticing the details

In Minority Report, the movie begins with a vision that one of the PreCogs had seen. It then switches to a different scene with a red, heavy looking ball, being created. The camera focuses intently on the ball by using an extreme close-up so the audience realizes its significance to the scene as well as to the entire film.

Also, within the first ten minutes of Minority Report, John Anderton and his squad are able to prevent a murder from taking place. For several minutes the movie switches between two different scenes. Although the scenes connect with each other, the husband and wife are unaware that PreCrime is searching for them. As PreCrime is running out of time to prevent the murder, the camera rapidly transistions in and out of each of the scenes. This increases the intensity for the viewers because they are anxiously waiting to see if PreCrime will stop the murder in time.

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