The Adjustment Bureau Blog

I have seen the film The Adjustment Bureau before. Of course, I didn’t watch it in an intellectual light, but I did know the basic idea of the plot. However, after seeing it in class, I looked into the film more as a philosophical study.

2. In the end of the movie, we see Elise and David and they are told that there plan has been rewritten with a blank page set aside for their plans. My interpretation is that the Chairman is allowing them to live their lives without any interference from the adjustment bureau. In the past, it was revealed that people with their own free will has essentially let the world fail and it brought about such atrocities as The Dark Ages, the Holocaust, World War I and World War II. But allowing the two of them to love again is a foot-in-the-door; it is a chance to see if people can once again handle choice.

4. I don’t believe that Harry is the Chairman in the movie, but I do think that he is above the other people within the Adjustment Bureau. I feel that he isn’t the Chairman because I don’t think that it would be that obvious. Harry is a crucial aspect to the story and we see his story unfold with the other characters. If he was more mysterious, I could understand how he might be considered the Chairman, but I don’t see it. I do believe that The Chairman did has a certain plan for him, though, and that he was set aside to do something great.