Adjustment Bureau Line Almost

 I ran across a silly movie that I watched on a plane years ago. It's a Matt Damon and Emily Blunt vehicle, and honestly, I don't know how it got made. The writing is pretty standard, the story is silly, the scope is limited. The acting is good, but that's because it has so many good actors in it. 

At the end of the Adjustment Bureau the two main characters who are in love have to risk their lives and their futures for each other and there's potentially wonderfully soliloquy on the verge of being delivered. It doesn't come. Instead there is a humdrum couple of lines about risk and love. 

I was going to post it here as a great line, but when I looked up the script, the line wasn't that great. Too bad too. With a little work it could have made these two lists on my blog (here and here).

Instead we got this:

David, you risked everything for Elise.

And Elise, when you came through that door at the Statue of Liberty, you risked everything, too.

But you inspired me.

It seems like you inspired the Chairman, too.

Then when I look at the original script, I see that the writer tried a bit harder to be poignant and expressive. But still it falls flat.  

Most people go through life like pinballs, reacting predictably to the stimuli I apply. They accept the path they find themselves on. And perform accordingly.

But every once in a while someone comes along who refuses to be bound by his fate, someone who understands that Free Will is a gift most people are too afraid to use.

How many of us have risked everything for someone we love? How many times have we left it all behind, the worries, the concerns, the things, for someone else,  . . . that someone we love.

All of this about the movie and the script that is almost good is too bad because there are aspects of the story which are fun to think about. The two main characters keep running into each other and when they do they feel drawn to each other. Fate. Kismet. That feeling that when you're with that other person everything is fine and perfect and nothing could be better than just being together. It's like being together, those moments together are air enough for them to breath and food enough to sustain them. The acting too is good enough to pull that emotion off.  

Evershade, evershades, ever shade, ever shades, shades of Betsy