The Adjustment Bureau Essay

Fate, Destiny, and You: Assessment Paper In class we watched the film The Adjustment Bureau and in this film there was many instances that challenged free will with determinism. It’s very hard to not think about fate and destiny. There are many ways to answer what exactly our destiny is.
God knows our future and it already exists, and there is nothing we can do to change that. This is the theological challenge to freedom, it means that if an absolutely perfect god knows the future, presumably he knows it perfectly, and therefore completely. One answer to this challenge is, if God already knows the future to everything we do, then when the time comes of what choices we make in the future for God to be God then he would have to be correct so the only way the situation could go is if the situation goes as God had it planned. Let's say you have a choice named “A”, and you have a choice named “B”. No matter what choice you make, you could make the argument that God already knew what you would choose, therefore proving that you …show more content…
For example the entire movie is based around the idea that this man and everyone else in the world must follow this strict plan in a book that has your life planned out ahead of you. And when you change the path you're taking, this agency comes in and tries to put you back on track with the plan in the book. The examples of determinism in this movie are everywhere, it’s what the movie is based around, but at the very end of the movie the characters change the plan in the movie by going against it. The CEO of the agency allowed for the man and women to be together which is an example of free will. This movie ultimately favors determinism. Everything in the movie was planned out for the main character until he met a woman that he fell in love with. They then tried to go against the plan set up by the agency, which in turn caused a series of events leading up to them being