Looking at all these comments, did no one watch Minority Report ? The whole film was about the difficulties and ethics of "precrime" and arresting people before they even committed a crime. Obviously we aren't doing that here, but stories often exaggerate a bit. I'd also like to add another good series that explores this topic even more than Minority Report : Psycho-Pass . Psycho-Pass is more extreme in that there's…
Big budget movies sort of struggle against telling stories about justice for people whom we discriminate against contemporaneously. You could never make a movie that even loosely portrays the plight of Uighers, who suffer under a notoriously technology-heavy form of surveillance and oppression (what we are calling predictive policing). Not because of censorship but because no one is going to fund your film. So while…
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#161I think the purpose of movies and stories is to make these events relatable. You're supposed to draw parallels. You don't have to show a black person to convince white people that minorities are being repressed. In fact, it is probably more convincing if on screen you are showing white people being oppressed because then they are going to more identify with that character. Of course, we are supposed to analyze these stories and find what they are trying to tell us. They aren't always so much "here's the entire problem, why you should care, and every little nuance" but rather "this is a problem." It often serves as a stepping stone for people to learn and start to care. To see things that they didn't see before because a story can give you a glimpse into what it is like living in someone's shoes. I wouldn't bash a story for not being able to compact what requires dozens of hours of research into an entertain-able bite size chunk. Stories serve different purposes from documentaries which serve different purposes from literature and news.