Minority Report with Brian Duffield

Celebrating the release of his new major motion picture Whalefall, in which Austin Abrams gets swallowed by a sperm whale, director Brian Duffield makes his triumphant return to The Spiel to talk about one of his favorite Spielberg flicks: Minority Report. The conversation has a lot of twists and turns, from Whalefall stories involving not one, not two, but three different sphincters, getting onto the Austin Abrams train at just the right time, and consulting Zach Cregger to a deep deconstruction of what makes Minority Report tick nearly 25 years after its release. This is a movie made in the immediate wake of 9/11 that correctly predicts the surveillance state that would result from that tragedy, has a lot of moral ambiguity, asks a lot of the audience, and is also the movie where Tom Cruise chases his own eyeballs down a long, windy corridor. So, buckle up and sit back and listen to two grown ass men nerd out about Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices