Minority Report

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

They established their "jurisdiction," not their range. In fact, the system was all set to go national. Um, but there were no more precogs. Seems the 3 would have to expand their range considerably.

Like I said, I would have to rewatch the movie to rebuild my case against the ending. But it was established that somehow the crimes detected (or maybe just the crimes reported) were filtered to just the test area. So even if it technically would have been known of outside the area, if no alarm goes off, it still doesn't matter.

But, that's the best I can do at a several year remove from seeing it. All I know is that was the general of it, that I explained to quite a few people at the time, all of whom said something "yeah, that makes sense." I also recall that I generally had a lot of problems with the nature and weirdly arbitrary nature in which the crimes were detected and reported but that gets more into the "general difficulties of time travel" issues and I ignored them more easily as a movie creating its own rules. I'm fine with that, I just remember thinking that the logic of needing the complex cover-up didn't make sense even within the framework of the arbitrary rules the movie had established.

I'd consider watching it again to better hold up my end of the discussion but by the time I got my hands on it and was prepared I'm sure this thread will be well dead.