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Home Online English Tutorials Minority Report

Minority Report (2002)

updated 19th Nov 2004

Brief Details

Directed by:
Steven Spielberg

Writing credits:
Philip K. Dick (short story)
Scott Frank (screenplay)
Plot Outline:
In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.

Useful Expressions

1. Darkness... And then, slowly emerging from the mists of darkness, a pale...
= coming out of / appearing / to be seen

2. Beautifully proportioned FACE. The oval face is female, a woman of indeterminate age.
= looked lovely / no bad feature

Face Shapes
                                       
   Oval face = Egg shape                Rectangular shape
                                    
        Diamond shape                   Broad big round shape

3. Her features as fragile as porcelain. Her eyes are closed in
sleep, or in death ... or in something in between.
= face- eye, nose, mouth- how she looks

4. They ever wrong? The Precogs ever screw up when they predict a murder?
= do something that is not good or right

5.So, you are friends, partners, and soul mates.
= real real very good friend
= tell one another everything

6. Witwer gives him a thumb's up.
= It's all okay / go ahead / carry on!

E.g.) That's two thumbs up!! = That's a great!!!!

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