Who would have thought that Minority Report was actually a book before it was a movie? I never did! I remembered loving the action packed movie and really enjoying the far fetched ideas that were presented in it, like how everyone had scanners in their eyes. Now that I’ve read the book I see where they have a similar idea, but yet a different story. In the book they portrayed the main character, John Anderton, as an aged insecure man who’s fighting for his job and to, at any cost, save precrime. Then comes the movie starring a handsome Tom Cruise who has lost his son and who wants to restore right. The question in my mind that keeps coming up in readings like this and The Girl Who Was Plugged In is, why is it that as a society we are never happy with ourselves? Do we really have such a low self-esteem as a whole that we feel that we constantly have to keep perfecting ourselves?
P. Burke, as explained by the book, was a young, unhappy, and suicidal girl. So unhappy with her non-perfect image that she was willing to make her body a vegetable so her mind could be somewhere else in a more perfect human image. Unfortunately, as we read on we saw that this was not the perfect answer. Everything that at first seemed so wonderful ended up crashing down all around her. Both these stories once again show the downsides to socially constructed norms. To me socially constructed norms are ways to tell us if we are the perfect human being or not, do we follow the rules, do we behave the way we should, and do we look the part? Poor P. Burke didn’t fit the perfect image and suicide was definitely not following the rules, so her only ultimatum was to become a pretty puppet for society to help reinforce society’s “perfect image” for a female.
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