if you knew how your life would play out, would you change anything?

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2017)

Paraphrasing a line from the movie, If you knew how your life would play out, would you change anything?
This a deeply philosophical question, and I think this is where this movie aims, and also imparts an optimistic answer. Any path is worthy of consideration, even a nihilistic path.
What is not examined is how good a chess player you'd have to be in order to utilize this gift. How any one person's solution might deprive another of their liberties. This last question is true even today.
the "Gift" is imparted even now, since we have the same abilities to decide our own actions 5 minutes hence, just not 3000 years hence.
If you are not open to considering the larger questions offered by the movie, then it might appear to you as a drawn out affair with little to offer.