minority report + film adaptation

From what I can remember from the film, so far this story follows very much in sync with the movie. It really gives it justice as far as the feel for the setting and the way the characters are described. Obviously, there is a lot added into the film to develop the visual aspect of the plot and characters, but just as the movie is fast paced, the short story moves at a hurried pace.

It really salvages the same feel for the irony that I remember from the motion-picture. Right away, it just seems so ironic that the creater of "precrime," who is responsible for utterly exterminating violent crime from society, is later a potential criminal himself. I know that there is a twist, and that someone is framed in the very end of the story, but when I try to remember, all I can remember is being very confused at the time. So, I'm looking forward to seeing how the two compliment themselves in the end.

As I have been thinking about the elements of the story and how to translate them onto the silver screen, I feel that visual description is crucail. Being that, I am personally fond of artistic style films that have a lot of panning and focusing in on elements of the setting avoiding extensive dialouge at points, I think that using alot of third person camera views, just to observe, is a good way to really develop the characters, the setting, and the symbolism. In many of the short stories, I think adding some developmental aspects to the movie version is crucial and will allow for irony to be developed, especially if the camera is dualistically used as omniscient and first person. In that way, we can both "look in" on people's lives before, during, and after as well as gain perspective directly through the character's eyes.