The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Bureau is a film about an congressmen who discovers that events in his life are actually being controlled by a powerful group of people. The movie brought forth many questions that had the audience either confused or questioning certain scenes. An example of this is who is the chairman, and why exactly do we never meet him/her. As for the question asking if the chairman was in the film, I think not. The main reason i think this is because its not important in the entirety of the film. It would give an aspect of lore to the film and the "angels". but having the chairman who makes decisions is a way to make the angels have different levels of command, while having someone on top that allows the audience to think about him/her and what he/she does. As for the question who was the chairman, I think they are never shown in the film and they are not a character. Switching to the question about when Thompson says "free will is an illusion", I think that needs to be taken with the concept of the film. I think in the movie, free will is an illusion because the "angels" do what they must to help society in the ways they see fit. As for how the quote pertains to the real world, because we are not living in the movie universe, that questions stems to what your personal beliefs are. The last question I would like to address is the why the filmmaker decides to add the scene when Thompson discusses times when humans had free will, and what he is trying to tell the audience. I think that Thompson said these lines to convince David that the "angels" are doing the right thing by invading in these trimesters. While David thinks they are trying to split him from the love of his life, the angels have always seen it as creating the best outcome possible. Another reason i believe the filmmaker added this scene because the angels who do the normal day to day work, don't know why they do everything, and the audience knows this from a previous scene. I believe he added this scene to make it seem as if the Angels understand why they do this work, they just don't know every step in the process