Well, I guess I’ll blog since I feel like writing, but I don’t feel like working on my book. I saw “The Adjustment Bureau” today with one of my favorite actors, Matt Damon. It was a thriller/love story of sort with a fantasy effect. Kind of in the same sense as “Hereafter,” only lovelier. I have to say I really enjoyed this film. Good acting, good chemistry between him and Emily Blunt who is just a splendid actress. Truly one of our generations best.
The film is about an inspiring politican (David) who meets a woman (Elise) after losing his senate race and falls head over heels for her. Then by chance he meets her when his guardian angel of sort (played by the brillant Anthony Mackie) falls asleep and misses his opportunity to delay David (Damon) on his way to work. While on the city bus he spots his lost love Elise (Blunt) and the sparks fly instantly. The flirting, the charming, the playful insults all work together to give you the sense that these two belong together.
Meanwhile, David’s guardian chases after the bus in a desparate attempt to derail David, but it’s too late. David get’s Elise number and arrives to work on time. This is a problem for the Adjustment Bureau because David walks in and catches them with his co-workers frozen in their place, doing some “retooling” on them. After a chase through the office, David is caught by the Bureau and is held captive-momentarily.
After being told they don’t have the clearance to erase David’s minds, they decide to let him in on the little secret about the Bureau. They tell him that they plan out everyones lives, everything happens because they make it so, and it’s only by “chance” that some things happen outside their control, like him running into Elise on the bus that morning. To make a long story slightly shorter, David does all he can to defy the Bureau and literally works his way around every obstacle in order to be with the woman he knows she’s supposed to be with.
All in all, very well done, which is good because the storyline is unique. I like how Matt Damon has found a way to combine good love stories and action suspense in his movies. Sure, he’s not the one writing them, but the fact that he is the prefect actor to pull this difficult type of story off is what makes this speical and good. I won’t write more about the story because I believe it’s worth checking out.
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