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Author: JonnyB

Jul 22nd 2012 at 1:18:34 AM

* Eyes are a motif in ''Film/MinorityReport''. Among them: 
** The pre-cogs "see" crimes before they happen in their mind's eye.
** People's eyes are constantly scanned at checkpoints for identity verification.
** Anderton has his eyes replaced to hide his identity from scanners and the spiders.
** In the opening sequence, the "pre-criminal" Howard Marks returns home for his glasses ("You know how blind I am without them"), only to find his wife in bed with another man. 
*** Earlier his son plunges a pair of scissors through the eyes of a cardboard picture of Abraham Lincoln, the same instrument Howard later attempts to drive into his unfaithful wife's eyes. 
** The drug dealer who sells Anderton his narcotics has no eyes so he cannot be identified. 
** Agatha asks Anderton several times throughout the film, "Can you see?", a physical as well as metaphysical question. 
** "The eyes of the nation are upon us," Director Burgess tells Anderton in warning him about the upcoming vote on the Pre-Crime Unit.