[Editor's Note: This review is by CL Holiday Auction winner Upohar Haroon. Haroon won the chance to tap her inner Ebert when her husband, Matthew Peterson, placed a successful bid for the “Be a movie reviewer” item in the 2010 CL Holiday Auction for the benefit of The Children’s Home.]
Who controls our fate? Can we make our own destiny or are we just puppets of some higher power? How far would you go to create your own destiny? These are some of the questions raised by the new sci-fi romance The Adjustment Bureau.
The movie starts out like a political thriller, with a young candidate, David Norris (Matt Damon), favored to win a NY Senate seat but losing out in the end. Right before David delivers his concession speech to supporters, he meets a ballerina named Elise (Emily Blunt). Though they feel an instant mutual attraction, they quickly part ways. All the while, men in dark suits and hats are following David’s every move.
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2011.