10 Movies That Might All Be In The Character's Head

9. Minority Report

There's no denying that Steven Spielberg is one of the most idolised directors ever, but if there's one criticism you can level at him, it's that often, he can't end a film. Just look at Saving Private Ryan; it feels like Spielberg's making a grand statement about how nobody really won World War II, but can't resist giving it a good old patriotic twist. Minority Report, likewise, is another film that deals in such darkened hues, it hardly seems fitting for the characters to live happily ever after; Tom Cruise is on the run for a murder he's going to commit in the future, and eventually he persuades everyone that people can change. Some might argue that a 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'-esque ending would be more thought-provoking; an affirmation that no one can cheat the system is certainly a better way of warning us of the future we're heading towards, rather than suggesting one man can flip a dystopia. Funnily enough though, Spielberg has a Get Out of Jail Free card here; Cruise's character Anderton spent a little while in prison, while his mind was free to dream. If he was to have dreamt up the entire ending, we'd have a braver moral from Minority Report.