My Minority Report Report

While watching this movie, I found the individual versus community question to be in my head a lot. What's interesting is that the Precrime justice system is being advertised as a protective tool for both the community as a whole (the kids at the ending of the advertisement), as well as for the individual (all of the people saying where they would have been stabbed or whatever). However, the consequences of Precrime directly affect the individual; when a pre-criminal is caught and haloed, they are put into an eternal sleep-like state that seems far from what would be in a utopic setting. This punishment also calls into question the morality of this system and where it falls on the spectrum of being autonomous versus having more laws and governance. Of course, both of these versus are from the “Plotting Utopia” chart—I find myself going back to this with Minority Report as I find it hard to place in the quadrants. While the government is very adamant about preventing/catching murder, they don’t seem to care much about other crimes being committed. So, there could be a fair amount of autonomy in the society, considering other laws aren’t focused on in the movie, but it could just be that the government is just overlooking crimes that don’t involve homicide… And then, again, with the happiness of the individual versus of the community—where does Minority Report’s D.C. society fall of this scale? I want to say somewhere in the middle since the community is being protected at the cost of some individuals (but there’s still debate in my head over that as well). Basically, this movie poses some strong moral questions and has some serious punishment laws... Where would you place it in the plot?