John Anderton Is A Hero

Everybody loves a good story. In order for there to even be a story to begin with, there must be the protagonist, the hero, who overcomes obstacles and challenges in order to achieve a specific goal. So what exactly makes a story good? Perhaps it is a protagonist, or hero, who is not so perfect. Perhaps a hero who has a troubled or dark past that they are not proud of. Perhaps a hero who is more complex and often lets his emotions make decisions for him. Perhaps the hero is an antihero. An antihero can make a story more likeable and enjoyable for an audience because they are more relatable because of the imperfections present in them. The birth and rise of dystopic films haven given rise to these more relatable antiheroes. In these seemingly
In the film, John sees a prediction from the PreCogs only to find out that in fact he is to be the murderer and is immediately puzzled and confused because of all people, he would not murder someone else. In the introduction to “Brave New Worlds”, John Joseph Adams explains how the government and authorities are usually the root to the issues in a dystopian society to further declare that “In a dystopian story, society itself is typically the antagonist” (Adams 2012). Through questionable occurrences such as being accused a murderer, John Anderton begins to become disillusioned as well as begins to realize that “society itself” is the problem in the world he thought was perfect. Through learning he doesn’t know as much as he thinks, John Anderton proves he is an antihero by becoming disillusioned which initiates his journey in proving his innocence. Anderton displays that he is an antihero through the disillusion that follows after learning he does not know as much as he thought he did, about how the system works. After being accused that he will murder Leo Crow, Anderton narrowly escapes his team and sets out to find co-founder of the PreCrime program, Dr. Iris Hineman, who explains, “The PreCogs are never wrong. But, occasionally...
After Anderton identifies that he has been accused of murder, he flees the building only to be pursued by his team, to whom he must resist arrest and fight back so that he can get away and prove he has been wrongly accused. According to Study.com, a characteristic of many dystopian societies is “a controlling, oppressive government” (Study.com) and further explains citizens have no freedom due to constant surveillance in these types of societies. In relation to this definition of dystopic societies, the society of “Minority Report” proves to be a dystopia because of the almost immediate pursuit that Anderton is sent on after being accused a murderer. They are able to find exactly where he is and when he was at a specific place due to the constant surveillance of the society. Anderton is forced into an antihero role in this aspect, as if he does not break the law and resist his arrest, then he will not been able to prove his innocence and the imperfection in the present society. Anderton also makes the choice to break other laws in many other ways because of the strict and controlled society that is present in “Minority Report”. For example, in order for him to sneak back into the building that PreCogs are located in, Anderton chooses to commit identity fraud by