Abstract: Can technology provide legal and social solutions to a father’s fear of dying at the hands of his son? Two films provide an appropriate context for an exploration of this question: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Minority Report. In these two stories, the viewer is immersed in a universe in which it is no longer a legal prohibition that protects the lives of fathers, but the circumstances of reality itself. But does making parricide unthinkable make it disappear?
