Food for Thought

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2002)

Intriguing and thought provoking since the plot itself revolves around mental abilities of some unique humans.Movies and Writers dealing with Time Travel, Psychic Pre-cognitive abilities and the like, face the tricky issue of convincing their audience/readers that the logic holds good in whatever is portrayed in the storyline.And Spielberg does a great job in keeping you riveted to your seat throughout the movie raising mind boggling thoughts of futuristic human societies with interconnected telepathic abilities, Internet style and what not.But come outside, after the movie and you begin thinking and asking questions and find the story has its flaws. Only three PreCogs monitoring a city with millions of people ? And how is PreMeditation defined here ? A crime may be rehearsed a thousand times mentally but never get to be committed at all. It would then be a crime to even 'think' violent crime and one couldn't make movies or write novels either about crime. And one thing is for sure. Prediction is an impossibility. There are too many parameters controlling human behaviour to be accurate about it. One more thing. That scary wet eyeball in the packet which Andertons wife used for retinal id. Cant the dumb machine make out the difference between a living pulsating eyeball and a dead one that would already have started collapsing and decaying with a change in form and content ? Watchable movie... Mmm Well, OK.. Enjoyable!