Is it a joke?
is it a special reference?

Instead of all this watch the movie and notice how this specific song is the only one that lets you detect you are watching a Spielberg movie.
This song has been chosen ... and that's it. Just like Picasso choosing blue instead of red for a painting.
When i watch that scene, the simple fact of Agatha asking the umbrella, telling the asian lady not to come back is as poetic as nothing i have ever experienced.
Accept this. Spielberg has a special sixth sense to touch one man chords.
Moon river is a song for dreamers. In that scene, in case you didn't notice, Agatha experience for the firts time dreams instead of nightmares.
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Alessio> Don't know for sure but heres my theory - actual lyrics of the song
> followed by my explanations:

> MOON RIVER WIDER THAN A MILE CROSSING YOU IN STYLE SOMEDAY(Referring to
> lifes journey and the almost limitless choices we can make that will
> determine our fate/destiny/path in life)

> OH DREAM MAKER, YOU HEARTBREAKER
( a reference to the pre-cogs visions
> that are not yet reality & pre-cogs and pre-crime units ability to
> judge only on the visions/murders and not the possibilty of an alternative
> non-violent resolution therefore taking away any future the 'perpertrator'
> may have had)

> WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING I'M GOING YOUR WAY, TWO DRIFTERS OFF TO SEE THE
> WORLD, THERE'S SUCH A LOT OF WORLD TO SEE (John & Agatha's journey to
> the crossroads where John must make choices, of which there a many, that
> will determine his & Agatha's destiny).

> WE'RE AFTER THE SAME RAINBOWS END, WAITING ROUND THE BEND, MY HUCKLEBERRY
> FRIEND (John & Agatha are after the same truths, John ulitimately
> wants justice, but only if it is infallible which the minority reports
> prove that it is not, Agatha wants the murderer of her mother brought to
> justice and to live her life free).

> Also with reference to river, water as a religious link is used in the
> movie to symbolise life & death. The death of Agathas mother by
> drowning, John is in the pool when his son is taken. The Pre-cogs are
> submerged in water when they have the visions and the ultimately save
> lives or take lives away (by way of the conflicting minority report).

> Note: Moon River was also used in another Tom Cruise movie - Born on the
> Fourth of July, it could be an in joke.

> Jake