Monday, March 7, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau

So today I went out with my buddies and we watched the adjustment bureau (The AB). At first we want to watch Drive Angry but most of their friends had watched it prior and gave a bad review.




The story start with a kick-ass young man, David Norris (Matt Damon) rises in politic, despite heading with few points in front of his opponent, lost it eventually due to some video prank he made earlier on. On the night he gave his speech, he met a mystery lady, Elise (Emily Blunt) inside the washroom while he practicing his speech. They have a kiss and he fell in love with the mystery lady. That night he out of norm, gave a kick-ass speech which revive his career as the politician and fight for the senate seat again 3 years later. but without him knowing, he in fact was followed by someone (something) from the AB. and in fact all that happened to him was in fact according to their plan. One day, due to failure of an agent to delay him to work, he saw something he shouldn't see and was taken by the AB to their headquarters and threatened him that they will reset his mind if he ever reveal the existence of the AB.

From my opinion.... The AB is a bureau created by the Chairman (God) and the workers (angels) are assigned to make sure all the event goes according to the plan. They believed that human being had been taking for granted their free will and had misused it and caused the bad happenings (World War 1, Great Depression, etc) throughout history. Their existence is to limit the free will and to prevent bad happening. The agent have special ability - reset human memory (if approved by the chairman), affect the decision making ability of human, reading the possible path of their subjects, telekinesis and door-to-door dimension walking (something like Doraemon's Pintu suka hati but does not direct bring them to their destination) - turnign the doorknob clockwise will bring them somewhere, anti-clockwise to their office. The power is limited by watery body (lake, river, rain) and also when their hat fell down from their head).

According to the plan, David Norris is not suppose to be with Elise. However, he chooses his power of free will and fight for his love, even though he was given a strong warning by the AB and threaten to hurt him and the lady........

I gave the movie 3.2 out of 5. I liked the story and the concept, but I think, they still can offer more - thriller, power, story line and at least shows that the AB is indeed a very powerful agency and can kick-ass.
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So, some of us asked, why are we gay? Is it our choice or is it destined for us? For me, personally thinking, God gave us free will and all he asked from us is to love him, to love one another like we love ourselves. So in short, all he want from us is to LOVE. So, is homosexuality wrong or not, I don't mind. As long I LOVE others and don't causes harm to other people. I choose to be me and won't regret of what I chooses. Whatever the future holds, let it be. Que sera-sera~

3 comments:

  1. If by choice, why would we choose the more difficult path?

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  2. What i want to say is, we choose to love just like those straight people do. We choose to be ourselves instead of pretending someone we aren't.

    We don't choose to be gay, but we choose to live a gay life - because that is who we are. Some gay choose to live a straight life- getting married, giving birth to children etc etc. But are they truly happy? Some even end tragically. This is due to lack of consideration in choosing the decision.

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  3. The movie is a lot like Pandora Box =)

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