Yes! We went to see this movie today:
This movie is about a young, aspiring politician (Matt Damon) who meets an intriguing woman (Emily Blunt) who just might change his future. However, members of the "Adjustment Bureau" step in to sabotage their budding relationship as they are destined for different outcomes...
It reminded us of an episode of the 1980s version of this TV show:
We LOVED a particular episode called " A Matter of Time" (it is amazing that you can research these things on Wikipedia). Within this episode, an middle-class couple discovers a glitch in time in which everything around them stays still. They catch something moving ahead of them... it is a team of workers wearing blue coveralls, blue hats and blue masks that must move every physical object in between single seconds of time in order to create their FUTURE.
However, the blue people sometimes make mistakes. Like not moving your car keys forward, which means you they are not where you last saw them ---until their supervisor finds that mistake and makes them put them in the correct place again.
This is why you CANNOT find your car keys, but after looking at 10 other places, you find them again (where you looked the first time)! The characters on the "Twilight Zone" episode eventually made their way back to their family in real time...
Since then, Bill & I have blamed EVERY misplaced item and time-wasting effort on those "!@#!*&#@@ BLUE PEOPLE"! It has boosted our self-esteem (it's not MY fault I can't find that income tax document) and is one of our secrets for a happy marriage (we are not fighting over who had the remote control last and where did it go-- instead, those "blue people" took it!). It works for us.
So, back to "The Adjustment Bureau":
The plot was both simple and intelligent. The men of The Adjustment Bureau (TAB), wearing suits and fedora hats, are assigned to watch over different individuals through the course of their lifetimes in order to guarantee that they do not stray from their destiny. They track an individual with their record books, they must not be seen, and only intervene by creating mini-events (like causing a person to spill his coffee on his shirt, which might make him return home to change his clothes, which will make him miss the bus, which will prevent an interaction or conversation with another person which might might give him a new idea/inspiration/motivation to try something new). In essence, we think we live our lives with free will, but only if we follow our master plan.
This idea kind of ties into our "blue people" theory, only it has evolved. For example, every time you have a dropped cell call-- it is because of TAB! Every time you get distracted and blow an appointment/are late for work/write down wrong information-- it is due to TAB! Now add the concept of falling in love. It screws everything up for TAB and that is why we really liked this movie. It was a love story after all. And we are suckers for true love.
We give "The Adjustment Bureau" a double Rodgers thumbs up.
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