A love story wrapped in a blanket of Phillip K Dick

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2011)

Based on a short story by Philip K Dick,this movie presumes that our fate is controlled by a squad of sharply-dressed men with orders to keep the time line.
David Norris (Matt Damon) is a opportune politician from a difficult background, who suffers a hitch in a New York senatorial election when pictures emerge of some youthful indiscretion. While practicing his concession speech, he comes across Elise (Emily Blunt), an impetuous dancer. The chemistry between them spurs him to make an impromptu speech which elevates his chances in the next election.Having let Elsie leave without finding out who she is, he sets out to find her only to be thwarted by the adjustment bureau who stop at nothing to keep the lovers apart.
Norris's persistence at trying to find Elise provokes the interest of the upstairs brass. Spelling out their goals to help make him president and for Elsie to become a famous dancer, they confide in him about who they are. The price to be payed is for them to be kept apart at all costs. Bizarrely. Norris continues to peruse Elsie and pays little attention to the enormity of the revelations of the adjustment bureau.
Hardly a flawless effort but what's intriguing here is that this is inherently a love story wrapped in a blanket of Phillip K Dick, with Damon doling out the charm and Blunt a good mix of feisty and frivolous as they deal with the gray men of the bureau.