The Adjustment Bureau (2011): The love-affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart. (7.1)
Director: George Nolfi
Writers: George Nolfi (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (short story "Adjustment Team")
Stars: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Michael Kelly
Do you believe in fate, that your path in life is set no matter what you do? In particle-physics-sense I do believe that the "free will" is over-rated. [Aside: We are--and everything else is--made of blobs of matter that's made of simple particles. There are rules for interactions between any two particles and therefore between any two or more blobs. So, in a larger sense, given a set of particles and a set of initial conditions, what happens next is ... given!] But the atheist in me says that there is no "controlling legal authority" (or a controlling super-being) that's winding the clockwork for the universe. So either way, the premise of this story is very intriguing to me. The movie is a sci-fi without all that movie special effects getting in the way of a good storytelling. I loved it. And, in today's political climate, that opening sequence is brilliant. The casting is super. My Rating: 7.5
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