The Adjustment Bureau should be called "The Hella Tight Bureau"

Every so often you go to a movie and just get the feeling this was the exact movie you needed to see at this juncture in my life. The Adjustment Bureau was that for me. It's a combination of The Da Vinci code, Matrix and Notebook. All three of these in my eyes are winners.

The adjustment Bureau is a a team of what could be considered angels to carry out the chairman's (god) "plan". I had no idea there would be a religious undertone to this movie but it was definitely there. The bureau are a team of guys who's responsibility is to make sure humanity plays it's part. They make minor "adjustments" in our lives that will permanently affect our decisions and the impact they have on the world. For example if you spill some copy on yourself walking out of your apartment one day on your way to work and you go back in to change your shirt you may miss the bus you were going to take and miss the chance of meeting the love of your life. This is an actual example from the movie. The Bureau explains to Matt Damon's character David Norris who is a young upcoming politician in New York, that mankind cannot handle freewill. We are to irresponsible and almost extinct ourselves when we have the option. The issue David Norris faces is he meets the love of his life in the Waldorf men's bathroom (Emily Blunt) Elise. They share a moment and she disappears for the next 3 years to reconnect on a public bus. They immediately reconnect and make plans to see each other in the future. Unfortunately for David this is not according to the chairman's plan. It was not written that Elise and David end up and the Bureau is here to make sure it doesn't happen. They have the ability to manipulate reality and affect the outcomes of chance and freewill. Without giving away the rest of the movie it personifies true love and the lengths we will go to attain it.

This movie hit a soft spot for me. Mainly because I'm a big sap and possibly because I've been recently challenged with similar obstacles. I believe in a higher power just not organized religion, and this movie I don't feel slaps you in the face with religion. It poses scenario's that are addressed and discussed in all of the big books however in a non biased way. I also believe in signs from the "chairman" myself. Me seeing this flick on a Saturday night randomly felt a little fortuitous. I've felt the way David Norris felt before in my life. The feeling where you have met that person and nothing would get in the way of being with them. Sometimes things just are not meant to be and fate works in a reverse, but it's all a part of the plan. Or we are just floating on this planet aimlessly and who gives a shit anyway just bang everything with a pulse.