One of the themes of "The Minority Report" is that people really don't have free will, or the ability to choose their own fate. John Anderton, the head of Precrime (an organization that stops crimes before they occur through information provided by people who have knowledge about what will happen in the future), hears that he will murder someone who is a stranger to him. While Anderton at first tries to escape, he eventually decides to murder the person who Precrime said he would kill, Leopold Kaplan, as Kaplan plans to destroy Precrime. After trying to escape the fate that Precrime has decreed and even after discovering that one of the three members of Precrime does not at first think he will murder Kaplan (this third person is the source of the so-called "minority report"), Anderton fulfills their prediction to save Precrime. Therefore, his fate is what the Precrime unit has decreed for him, and all his efforts lead only to what they have predicted is his destiny. It is impossible for him to exercise free will in ultimately changing his fate.
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