Turning 22 + The Adjustment Bureau Review

That photo is awesome!!!

Saw this Monday for my 22nd birthday and it was really cool, not GREAT but I enjoyed it. Matt Damon is a young politician who falls in love with a girl but the supernatural network known as the Adjustment Bureau steps in. They state that being with her will derail his destiny to be president, the greater good simultaneously preventing her from becoming the worlds greatest dancer and teacher.

The movie is based on the Adjustment Team short story written by Philip K. Dick and has this cool old style sci-fi/mystery feel to it.

Who are the Bureau?
Is it really so bad for the two to be together?
Are they messengers from God?

SPOILER ALERT

And so on and so on. The end of the movie is really awesome when Matt Damon decides he really won't live without Emily Blunt and chooses to face down omnipresent forces of the Bureau.

With training from Anthony Mackie (black guy in the picture) Matt learns to be virtually everywhere so he can track down Emily and be one step ahead of the Bureau. that sequence is a lot of fun to watch, this suited guy with a fedora moving in seconds across time and space, people everywhere confused and dazzled. And the use of taking normal, everyday doors to specific places and warping them so you can go anywhere your mind wants to go, or something like that. I don't remember how the space-travel through doors throughout the city fully worked, but its so much fun to watch. It feels like The Matrix too a little bit, the million doors and such.

SPOILER CONCLUDED

It's great seeing Anthony Mackie play in a movie like this and with an expanding role like his too. He's been in many other movies including 8Mile, We Are Marshall, and the acclaimed The Hurt Locker. His character is very interesting and grows right before us, in this weird supernatural culture he resides in, with these more experienced "caseworkers" as they're called sometimes having to "Clean up [his] mess" when he bungles a bit.

Anthony as an actor reminds me of me too, because he's not very well known and sort of in the background but if you look at his movies, he carries himself with a lot of maturity and dedication. and he's been in some great stuff and worked with very influential people (Katherine Bigelow, Eminem, Denzel Washington). And it's been 10 years in the making for him too! He's done so much and has a real repertoire of films under his belt, some great, some lame and some just good.

I just like this film, the concept and A. Mackie in it, I've got my eye on him now and can't wait to see what else he'll do that speaks to me. I might even get to work with him in the business, God-willing.

The Adjustment Bureau is fine movie and if that's all you need, a timeless theme such as: can we outrun our destiny? Or is destiny a good thing? What is freewill? Plus a fun love story and a sleek sci-fi feel then you'll enjoy the this flick. Plus Matt Damon is cool, I mean he's Jason Bourne, come on!

Go see it!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST I TURNED 22 ON MONDAY!!!

It kinda feels like the sequel to being 21, if that makes sense. I got hundreds of Facebook well wishes and text messages and just general love from friends and family. The best Monday I've had in a long time ^_^

Funny aspect. If I wasn't able to see the above movie I was gonna have friends over and see some chill movies, like MegaMind! And guess what? I got to see it! Well like the middle of it. So now i gotta go buy that cuz its so funny!

But anyway. I feel like maybe after being 22 for six months or something maybe I'll feel like my age because I still feel 21 xD But anyway I also really feel like God is prompting me to be more daring as far as being who I am and not conforming to the image others think I should be. For the first time I know that when God shows me or tells me I am who he says I am, its not just to make me feel good: its a gift, the identity that belongs to me, the only one I could possibly walk out. It's mine. I am finally beginning to think the way I have always wanted to, with confidence in who I want to be.

I know i wrote more about the movie, but I'm at school, tired and i need to study for an exam. Who I want to be is a good student also haha. But I'm glad for another year, glad for God, for friends and for my passions and that is all that matters.

"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us." -Marianne Williamson.

Also, shout out to my close friend Joy a.k.a Cury, HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!

EL FIN