Talking about Destiny Planning Bureau

Ludie 2022-04-22 07:01:05

As someone commented, this film is obviously a love film, but it has the cloak of science fiction. Originally I thought it was a hard sci-fi movie like "Source Code", but in the end I found out that it was a modern sci-fi comedy version of the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies. Overall, this film is 70% love + 20% science fiction + 10% philosophy.

Although the ending is a bit old-fashioned, it is still a good movie. But what impressed me most about the film was the idea of ​​the "Planning Bureau of Destiny". In this film, the Fate Planning Bureau is a mysterious and supreme organization that can decide people's fate, even life and death. Everything is within its grasp. Think how terrifying it would be if such an organization really existed. This idea can see a trace of the shadow of the Matrix. If one's destiny can be preset, and if one knows that everything is in order, what is the meaning of life? Sometimes we do feel powerless, especially when faced with a lot of situations where we can't do anything about it. "Destined" is a terrible word. Although it can be "destined to love you", it can also be "destined" for some negative things, such as lovelorn, business failure, unemployment... Fortunately, the director arranged In the ending of the comedy version, the hero decided to bring the heroine to meet the "chairman", and in the end their sincerity touched the "chairman" (a bit similar to the moving god in our mythology). I think life is still full of chance and necessity, but if everything is inevitable, then life, and even the whole world, will have no meaning to exist. I still can actively strive for and have the courage to change my life within my ability. Isn't there a saying that if you work hard, even God will help you.

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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.