Determinism In George Nolfi's 'The Adjustment Bureau'

In life we must ask ourselves one question: Do we have free will, or are our lives already predetermined and there’s nothing we can do about it? That’s the question people often ponder about, and they usually wonder that whenever they read a book, watch a movie, etc. One movie that dives into this matter is George Nolfi’s movie The Adjustment Bureau. In the movie a congressman named David falls in love with a dancer named Elise, but it turns out a group of everymen referred to as the Adjustment Bureau try to make sure that David never meets Elise again so they can get back on the plan made by their chairman. But of course being the reckless guy he is, David decides to defy his fate and try to reunite with Elise. With the fact being obvious that the Bureau is on the stance of determinism, the central idea of Nolfi’s movie is what Harry (a Bureau agent) says at the end about “…freewill is a gift that you’ll never know how to use unless you fight for it”, that determinism has an equal power as free will, and how we’re responsible for our choices with free will/determinism.

Joel Furche’s article “Free-Will and Determinism as it relates to Christian Apologetics” has somewhat similar concepts of what the Adjustment Bureau has. One similarity is that our

The article “Freewill and Determinism in Psychology” by Saul Mcleod like all the other articles have something in common with the movie, and that comparison in this case is the idea that we can make our own fates with having free will. The Bureau best exemplifies this idea where at minute 1:37:57 the Chairman changes the plan the A.B was on for David/Elise so they can make up their own future. Likewise, Saul makes a statement in his article that there are people “…who believe that human beings have the ability to control their own destinies.” These two have the same idea for one reason: both agree that we are in control of our