The Adjustment Bureau
A Blue Dog corporate Democrat is destined to win the White House and that’s God’s plan, unless he’s content to remain a corporate drone and live with a British dancer in NYC. Out of that horrible premise comes out a nice film.
Jason Bourne is running for senator, everything is going well until he pulls a Weiner and the New York Post runs an old picture of his ass. He loses the election.
While practising his concession speech, he meets cute a girl with an empty champagne bottle, on a men’s bathroom stall, and it’s so incredible they go to first base right there and then.
This becomes his new obsession (now that politics is one election cycle away). Not gonna lie, I would also abandon my life to be in a relationship with Emily Blunt.
Couple months later, he’s working at his campaign manager’s hedge fund (fucking Wall Street) and randomly meets the same girl, Elise (like the song).
His hatted shadow falls asleep so his shirt remains unsoiled, leading to the meet. He even gets her number, but uncovers a conspiracy to “adjust” the actions of everyone. The hat gang give him a second chance before wiping his mind, as long as he abandons her.
Am I imagining things or were there a version where they actually talked to God in the end, and it was Shohreh Aghdashloo? Apparently so, because having a Muslim play God was “too controversial”. Hail, Caesar!’s morality police is alive and kicking in 2011!
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.