Every choice has a price

Taurean 2022-04-19 09:01:37

Continue to watch the movie time today, and the movie "Planning Destiny" by Matt Damon is selected.

The male protagonist in the story is a maverick politician. Young, promising and outrageous, he is well-liked by young people among voters.

Just when the votes were far ahead, a magazine published his previous photos, causing dissatisfaction among voters and ultimately losing the election. And because of this, he met the heroine when he was preparing to give a speech in the bathroom.

The male and female protagonists were deeply attracted as if they fell in love at first sight, but were interrupted by an assistant coming in to remind them. Since then, the male protagonist has missed her deeply, until one morning, he accidentally met her on the bus. (Fate is amazing)

But this moment was noticed by a little black brother, who is also appearing in many speeches of the male protagonist. He chased the bus frantically, but he couldn't stop the hero and heroine. It turns out that there is an agency in this world called the Destiny Planning Bureau.

The black brother is the clerk in charge of the male protagonist, and the notebooks in his hand record the male protagonist's life. In fact, in the arrangement of fate, the male and female protagonists cannot be together. The male protagonist accidentally discovered that the clerks were affecting the behavior of the people around them.

He couldn't help being shocked, and the clerks had to arrest him and threaten him. If it was leaked, they would "reboot" him and become a person without feeling.

The male protagonist was also very disappointed in shock, and the only phone number left by the female protagonist was also burned by them. Since then, the male protagonist has insisted on taking the same bus to and from get off work every day, hoping to meet the female protagonist again.

Finally, three years later, an accidental meeting on the street brought them back together. At the same time, the clerks also found that their fates were about to overlap again and tried to stop them again. But this time the male protagonist resisted everything tenaciously.

Until the end, the clerks told him the reason why they couldn't be together: the female lead would greatly stimulate the male lead's impulse, and eventually both of their dreams would be destroyed.

The male protagonist stopped at this moment. He looked at the beautiful dance of the female protagonist, and took the female protagonist who was "accidentally" injured by the clerks to the hospital. Looking at all this, he hesitated for a long time, and finally made what may be a lifetime. An unforgettable decision.

Almost a year later, the male protagonist has a smooth career, and the female protagonist has also achieved success in dancing, and is going to marry his ex.

When the male protagonist looked at her in the newspaper, he could no longer bear it in his heart. Even if he was destined to have this disaster, he would spend the rest of his life with the female protagonist. The black brother is also thinking about whether the fate of others is right.

Through his ability, he helped the male protagonist to finally find the female protagonist. When they kept escaping the pursuit of other clerks, they reached the rooftop and had no way to escape.

If there is no way out, let’s go to adversity together. When they kissed affectionately and fought against fate to the fullest, the "chairman" who had been writing fate behind his back had already rewritten their fate.

Finally, they overcame various difficulties and walked hand in hand on the street.

In fact, at the end of the film, it is more about the preciousness of free will, and it takes untold hardships to cherish this hard-won freedom. But in fact, the most difficult thing is often to choose, just like the door you open, the people you have met, and where you will lead you are unknown. But the price is certain. Whether you dare to bear this price and go to the unknown, even if it is a dead end, this is the real meaning.

Some people say that if fate is really arranged, what's the point? If there really is such a God, then all we can do is to forget all this and respect our inner choices.

Life hasn't come to an end, you don't know what the ending will be. Don't rush into spoilers, let's go and see if it's more interesting.

I wish you all the best of luck and goodbye.

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The Adjustment Bureau quotes

  • Harry Mitchell: [talks to David] You're going to look for her, aren't you? You won't find her. They'll make sure of it. Even if they weren't trying to stop you, there are nine million people in this city. You'll never find her. Forget about her. Move on with your life.

  • David Norris: What ever happened to Free Will?

    Thompson: We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.