After reading it, the idea is not very clear

Eldridge 2022-04-21 09:01:38

This is my first time writing a movie review, please forgive me.
I didn't understand a few details in the movie. The movie started a conversation between Harry and his boss standing on the roof of the building. Harry was exhausted, and the boss gave him a holiday after finishing his work, but Harry said that this kind of exhaustion can't be eliminated by a holiday. of. I have a few questions here after watching the video
First of all, does the boss say the end is just about letting Harry spill coffee on his shirt before 7:15, or is it all the way up to David's whole life planning Inside? And the boss also mentioned that Harry has been with David for a long time. Personally, I feel that the end should refer to the latter. Harry and the others have lived for a long time, so they must have planned a lot of people, so in their world David's life should be just one thing. But isn't it a bit contradictory that the boss stopped David from watching her dance and was exhausted?
Secondly, on the question of the chairman, what is the chairman referring to then? Personally, I don't think the chairman is Harry, and the film doesn't reveal how the planning bureau is organized, but Harry said that everyone sees a different chairman, so simply put, at the end, David asked the chairman if it was Harry, and if so, So isn't David and Ellis the same chairman? I don't know if the analysis is correct or not.
Finally, will changing your destiny plan have an impact on others? Because people are not independent individuals, there is a circle of communication and relationship. The film finally foreshadows the ending of two kinds of people under the arrangement of fate, one is David Elis who dares to rewrite his own destiny, and the other is Elis' ex-husband who obeys fate's arrangement. The film does not say what will happen to the ex-husband's fate, but the ending must be tragic, the fiancee was snatched away. What theme is the film trying to express, the final monologue is a bit unintelligible, please solve it.


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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.