Minority Report - How to tell a story in five words

A quick breakdown of my favorite sequence from one of my favorite movies, including a single line of dialogue that has never left me.

[@stevew278]

She was like “yeah whatever” and went home anyway, he got away with the murder because Precrime was down at the time. The end

[@radhiadeedou8286]

The expression on her face didn't say "yeah whatever"

[@stevew278]

@@radhiadeedou8286 maybe in the moment, but then she thought, no im just being paranoid, that was just some crazy woman rambling, he doesnt know, Im going home.

[@lynessmormont2136]

Lovely assesment. This scene lives in my head, it's so good. It's a scene rich with background noise. The footsteps and the chatter. I love the textural sound.

[@kodyk124]

Haha I just stumbled on your channel and have been binging your videos for over an hour. I agree with almost all of your takes, and your analyses of The Joker and The Batman were especially cathartic. That said, a month or so ago I rewatched Minority Report for the first time in ~10+ years and I thought it was terrible. So funny to see how different people can be, even when they agree about many, many things. It's humbling to me, reminds me not to take my own opinion too seriously.

[@owlstoathens2265]

The algorithm just coughed this channel up for me, and I’m mid-binge. Thanks for this thoughtful comment!

[@diabolicallabs8286]

Brilliant summary of an amazing scene

[@lonellfletcher]

So true. That one moment is such a slap!!!!!

[@owlstoathens2265]

I like Minority Report too, and never saw this scene in this way. Thanks for giving me a new lens!

[@abbeyfeller2749]

I literally get so excited when you upload

[@davescripted3796]

I'll try not to let you down 😁

[@LucHale]

I’ve been thinking about this scene all day dealing with a friends suicide and this is one scene as a child that I saw as “pure empathy” when you look at how the film opens here saying “he knows don’t go home” gives you a glimpse of what the audience just saw but what’s even more incredible is that the women she reaches out to could be any of us dealing with anything at all.

[@eden20111]

I always thought the woman was having an affair lol, and she was warning her not to go home or the husband would probably kill her. And he would most likely succeed without Agatha back at the lab. So Agatha just saved her life.

[@diabolicallabs8286]

What gets me… is the implied backstory. Agatha and the other precog’s gifts were being used to prosecute pre-crime, when a warning, such as “he knows… Don’t go home” would illicit the same result with no incarceration.

[@BelleFlower15]

This has been my favorite line and scene in a movie ever ever ever.

[@zxbarr]

you need more views, this is such a good channel!

[@davescripted3796]

TY!!!😃

[@gh0s1wav]

Amazing! Definitely a great writing exercise! Write a while story in 5 words or less! Fucking excellent👏👏👏

[@davescripted3796]

🙏

[@ashleighfeller1127]

"Lile if you like" I did like, and I will like. :)

[@NarendraMnr]

I'm looking for that one video...

[@Dhruvbala]

Im not sure I get the significance here. Can someone explain it to me?

[@mykal4779]

I think the implication is that this woman has been cheating on her partner and he found out and is planning to murder her when she gets home.

[@90boyle]

And will get away with it due to the story taking place.

[@alisaurus4224]

She’s cheating is the first idea most people think of here (me among them), but it could be anything. Maybe her husband is abusive & she’s been planning to leave, but he’s now lying in wait-the most dangerous time for a domestic abuse victim is leaving the relationship

[@opssoldier3316]

@@alisaurus4224good point. Yeah we always assume the worst in people but all we know is that something she is doing is going to cause her to be murdered. That’s all we know!

[@v-22]

Come on... he knows she's been cheating on him and was there waiting to kill her. Cool, it's almost cheesy if you've seen the movie. What's so amazing about it?

[@notapplicable2u]

This sequence is quite good but the final payoff of the so-called five-word-story at the end of it only has the impact it seems to have on You because there is an unusually good and very albinoey white female actor telling a stereotypically (at least in the long and at many times disgraceful, yes, if you actually paid any careful critical attention, tradition of ethnocentric Western-film-making) "submissive-emoting" Asian female actor (who is a placeholder For All Asians/Chinese maybe?) What To Do in a briefly micro-aggressively (though somewhat sublime) instance of Helpful Charitable Advice from a clearly disadvantaged-disabled "physically-and-emotionally distraught" white female who is arguably the best actor in all of The Minority Report, next to Tom Cruise perhaps, (although in actuality, it is just a very professionally-plum dramatic role for any good actor (male or female, black or white, purple or green ) to undertake in the context of virtuoso Spielbergian directing, so there.

[@ricochet8104]

Modern Film analysts have a serious problem with race.

[@jessedupuy4124]

You're off your fucking rockers bro, calm down. When's the last time you were able to enjoy a film without the filter of your disgusting racial prejudice?

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

What in the social-justice critical race theory twitter brainrot is that wordsalad analysis? It takes real talent to write satire like that. Well done.

[@notapplicable2u]

thx! :)@@jesustyronechrist2330

[@ricochet8104]

@@jesustyronechrist2330 What letterbox does to a sane person.