explanation of "plot holes" for those who SAW the movie

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2002)

first of all, I loved this movie, but that's not what I'm here to do. I'm here to clear up 2 frequent misconceptions people had about this movie which for many people were disguised as a plot holes. warning: this one IS A SPOILER!
Many people said, "without the precogs telling john anderton that he would kill this man, he would never have been in that room and would never have met him. So if the precogs hadn't determined his fate, it would never really have been his fate."
That is true. If he hadn't been on the run because the pre-cogs determined he would kill the guy, he would never have gone to the inventor of pre-crime's house and found out about the minority report, would never have found out who really killed that women (i forget her name, would never have been set up, would never have kidnapped agatha, would never have gone to that hotel, and he never would never have seen that man.
But that was his fate. He was meant to see the pre-cogs prediction just as he was meant to do all of those other things. Though the pre-cog's prediction itself changed the future, the altered future is what was meant to happen. You can't say "what if he didn't see the visions? would he still have committed the murder?" because he was meant to see the visions. It's like if today, i was to find a magic crystal ball that told be that tomorrow I would find treasure. And the ball then went on to tell me exactly where the treasure was. Say it was in hawaii. So the next day I fly to hawaii and get the treasure. It's true that without even finding the crystal ball, i never would have flown to Hawaii and found the treasure. But my fate was to find the crystal ball, so that was already accounted for in my future.
Another thing people don't get that ties into the previous one is how could the pre-cogs see the future murders if the future murders weren't going to happen. And how could the future be changed at the last second but not before that point. How could Mr. Marks be destined to kill his wife but that destiny could only be changed at the last second. How could John Anderton be taken to the point at which he was meant to kill the guy but not go through with it. When John was with Agatha and he said "how can I kill a man i don't even know? and i've never even been in that room" She replies "a sequence of events in your life will lead you to that room and to the man. but once there, you will still have a choice. You can still walk away." So he was going to be in that room, no matter how hard he tried to stop it and he was going to meet the man and be presented with a choice. But once presented with that choice, only then could he change his future. And that's what he did. And that was the whole point of the movie. It's important to understand these "plot holes" were introduced intentionally as thought provokers and as representations for reality. I won't get into that too much, because I don't know enough about it, but the film and the answers to these questions can be answered on two levels. The logical, and the metaphorical, wherein the movie tries to depict current controversal beliefs and such in a futuristic background. And that's why this is such a great movie.