I haven't read very much Philip K. Dick, but I'm about to remedy that really quickly. Why am I saying this? I'll tell you...
I was flipping around channels last night and 'The Adjustment Bureau' came on. It hit me that I'd never seen it, but I remember the TV ads when it was new to theaters about a year ago making it look pretty interesting. Also I can honestly say I haven't seen a Matt Damon flick that actively made me want to turn off the TV all together, so I thought I'd give it a chance. Well, I was sucked in from the first scene.
I don't know if any of you has seen it, but at its core it's a love story. I don't like love stories as a rule -I tend to typically stick to Horror and Sci-Fi with some action and humor sprinkled in. But something about this movie (I guess the small dose of Sci-Fi helped) really held my attention. Do we honestly control any facet of our destiny? Are our decisions -sometimes the seemingly mundane ones- made of our own free will at all? No one can ever really know; even us Christians owe a certain portion of our guided paths to The Lord. But still, how would we really even know we were being... manipulated unless we saw it first hand?
Well, those are questions best left to either God, or really good Science Fiction authors, and as it turns out, Dick was an amazing author. And the worst part is I didn't even know the story on which this film was based was written by him until the end credits. Sad.
So now it's time for more Dick. And that's all.
I was flipping around channels last night and 'The Adjustment Bureau' came on. It hit me that I'd never seen it, but I remember the TV ads when it was new to theaters about a year ago making it look pretty interesting. Also I can honestly say I haven't seen a Matt Damon flick that actively made me want to turn off the TV all together, so I thought I'd give it a chance. Well, I was sucked in from the first scene.
I don't know if any of you has seen it, but at its core it's a love story. I don't like love stories as a rule -I tend to typically stick to Horror and Sci-Fi with some action and humor sprinkled in. But something about this movie (I guess the small dose of Sci-Fi helped) really held my attention. Do we honestly control any facet of our destiny? Are our decisions -sometimes the seemingly mundane ones- made of our own free will at all? No one can ever really know; even us Christians owe a certain portion of our guided paths to The Lord. But still, how would we really even know we were being... manipulated unless we saw it first hand?
Well, those are questions best left to either God, or really good Science Fiction authors, and as it turns out, Dick was an amazing author. And the worst part is I didn't even know the story on which this film was based was written by him until the end credits. Sad.
So now it's time for more Dick. And that's all.
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