Is it possible to out-run your fate?

     Okay, so when I first saw a trailer for The Adjustment Bureau I was blown away. First of all, if you plan on seeing the movie before someone spoils it don't read, this is your official spoiler alert. After seeing movies like Inception, or Black Swan, I thought my brain had tossed around enough by movies, little did I know The Adjustment Bureau was just around the corner. The only problem is that there were few, but HUGE errors in my mind by the time the movie was over. During the film it felt like Inception while it constantly kept me engaged and thinking about what was going on. However, my thinking put ideas into my head for how the theory wouldn't end up working, and don't you know, it didn't. The ending of the film killed it.

Now I won't dismiss the film, I'd still recommend it, just not as an entertaining film. I would watch it to see it's flaws and ponder on them.

The movie's basic plot is that there are "people" that control people's destiny and that everyone on earth has a "plan" written for them by who they call The Chairman: The God figure. For anyone that has a fixation with predestination, or is even interested in it at all, this is actually a good movie to see. I don't say that because it's a good depiction and can explain it for you, but what I do mean is that it has a layout of predestination with every human having their own plan written for them.

Lets start by just pointing a couple things out, one, there are many flaws integrated into the movie if you're looking at it for predestination, things like the fact that the main character gets off of line from his plan, which can't happen with predestination. Two, the way to watch the movie is to see what the world would be like without predestination. Okay, so here's a picture for you, let's say you're watching a movie, like this one, and you're enjoying it and think that the fact that it has twists and turns is compelling. Boom, there's life, full of twists and turns. But then towards the end it's all ruined, everything was fine and made sense about the "Plan" system until you realize that a human can stand up to the chairman and change his plan to the way he likes it. That doesn't sound like a very good chairman does it? No, therefor, why should that chairman deserve to be in charge of everyone's destiny? He shouldn't, my take is that the writer was dismissing God and predestination together for an hour and a half, but in the end, it just showed me if God were to let us decide for ourselves on how things are drawn out and we can go against his will, what's the point of God in the first place?

Thanks for reading, don't want to confuse you too much but that really is all I got out of the movie, it's not something to see for any reason but this in my opinion.