The Adjustment Bureau - March 4 2011

[osher]

I've just watched the movie. Not much to add after your opinions. But i have a feeling, this time as well as other times, that maybe STS manipulation is not the only thing there is. I mean, if world is about balance, then there must be positive outcome to some after watching even most manipulative stories. Doesn't our perspective change even a tiny bit after watching stories like this? And the last sentence in the movie:
SPOILER
"Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along, who knock down all the obstacles we put you in your way. People who realize free will is a gift you never know how to use until you fight for. I think that's the chairmen's real plan. That one day we won't write the plan. You will."

I am fighting with myself-inner blockades-to regain free will. Cannot work and have much to do. In the most important moment in my life, when some of my dreams are just about to come true (or gone forever) i cannot work, i feel like i lost free will. One mistake and months of regaining inner peace are gone. I wanted to write that in another place on this forum, but here it is. So it was inspiring and maybe not so manipulative.

 

[Z...]

I watched this move few days ago and I really enjoyed it so thank you for the recommendation.
I liked that they used the concept of reclamation of free will.

 

[XRz]

The movie showed promise but if failed to live up to its potential. Why did this door lead here and that door lead there? What did the bureau's books actually show? Why did the plan change? Loose ends everywhere, but i've seen much worse.

 

[Rabelais]

It did a good job of portraying humans as having no free will, acting mechanically to fulfill the wishes of their hyperdimensional controllers and that it takes super efforts to break free of the system and gain free will. I guess I can see how there could be some beneficial effects of these agents because it teaches humans how to develop into more conscious beings, gaining their own free will. When the lovers finally were united the level of attack fell off but of course in real life it would not end at that point.

I concur with Masamune. It was entertaining and that is what movies are for me... entertainment. Should they contain deeply moving messages, so much the better, but if at the end I can say "OK that was pretty good", I don't consider it time wasted, and that is how I felt at the end of The Adjustment Bureau. And, it just might have been more analogous to the current 4D STS control system than we can imagine.

 

[LMJ]

I just watched this movie two weeks ago. I have to agree with Woodsman's summary. You nailed it sir. :)

 

[axj]

Just watched it. I have to say, the scene where they "freeze" the time in a high-rise building in New York very much reminded of what the C's said happened on 9/11. I thought this might have been an inspiration from above to include this in the movie: in both cases it is a freezing of time in a high-rise bulding, and it is in New York and there are those shadowy 4D-type figures doing God-knows-what with advanced technology.

 

[mcb]

I just finished watching it. It's OK, but could have done more. Partly on target, but too much Hollywood. I am going to read Dick's The Adjustment Team, out of curiosity. I read The Man in the High Castle a long time ago, but I don't think I have read any others of his.