"Most people live according to our planned lives and dare not find another way, but from time to time there will be people like you who will break through all the obstacles we have laid." Free will is a gift, and if you don't fight it, you'll never get that experience. ”
This is the epilogue of the movie "Destiny Planning Bureau".
Many people have encountered in life, want to go out but can not find the key, so delay ten minutes at home to find the key; pluck up the courage to call the other party to confess, but the other party is on the phone, can not summon up the courage again, so missed a person; and even in the news there are more mysterious things: a meter away from you, there is a high-altitude fall, and you survived because of helping a fallen child... There are many such things in life, and some of them will be ignored by us, such as finding the key, finding a mobile phone, and answering the phone, but it is undeniable that these are not necessarily accidental, and may be changing our destiny.
The science fiction film Destiny Bureau, released in the United States in 2011, is about how an unknown organization, the Destiny Bureau, uses fragments of life to influence and even change people's destinies.
David is a member of parliament who has repeatedly lost votes in the campaign. Before speaking, he met Elise in the bathroom, and her words inspired him, making him well received and support in his speech. When he went to the company the next day, he found that everything in the company seemed to be stationary, pushed open the conference room, saw the fate planning team holding the instrument to operate on other people's brains, and David, who saw all this, was frightened and ran out of the conference room without turning his head.
But soon he was grabbed by the planning bureau and taken to the underground parking lot. It turned out that the people in the Planning Bureau were making "adjustments" to the company, that is, putting their thinking on the right track. According to the plan, David should be in the park to get his clothes dirty with coffee, and then go home to change clothes before going to the company, in the plan, when David arrives at the company, the work of the planning bureau has been completed and everything has returned to normal.
But everything that's happening now is because a clerk in charge of staining David's clothes in the park snoozed and missed the time, causing David to arrive at the company on time. So he saw everything he shouldn't have seen.
Under David's oath of confidentiality, the Planning Bureau decided to release him while demanding that he could no longer meet with Elise. In fact, David has been in love with Elise ever since she was inspired, and although the Planning Bureau told David that he would not see Elise again, David later met Elise.
However, according to the destiny planning document, David is going to enter the White House as president in the future, and the death of his father and brother is arranged by the Destiny Planning Bureau to inspire him to become a good president. If he fell in love with Elise, then all the previous efforts of the Planning Bureau would be burned, because Elise would be everything for David, and with Elise, David would no longer need flowers and applause to fill the emptiness in his heart, and would no longer dream of one day entering the White House, which would be a serious mistake for the Planning Bureau.
So, back to the center of the film: do you insist on free will or do you choose to succumb to fate's arrangement?
Even though he was told that if he did not follow the planned fate, he would erase the memory of the intervention team and become a madman in the eyes of others, but a few years later, David went to elise on the day of her wedding, and even though the planning team kept obstructing along the way, david eventually ran all the way with Elise, trying to get rid of the planning team.
Unexpectedly, in the end, the chairman of the Planning Bureau was touched by the free will and spirit of resistance of the two, let them write their own destiny, and changed the original trajectory of the two in the planning manual. Through unremitting efforts, David and Elise finally won a perfect ending.
They have challenged fate and won their freedom, but there are still millions of people who accept the plan of fate. At the end of the film, the director exalts the film's intentions, highlighting the importance of free will for a person, and the fate plan is only the test of the chairman of the planning bureau to the world. Of course, people can easily live their lives according to the arrangements of the Planning Bureau effortlessly, and it is the least effortless to fill their lives every day around the trivial things such as finding mobile phones, making phone calls, and chasing buses. Of course, you can also be dissatisfied with the fate arranged by the Planning Bureau, want your own life, have your own will, which is undoubtedly difficult and even painful, but after crossing this test, you can experience the life you want.
Although in real life, this "free will" can only be applied to a small extent, such as not being satisfied with the arranged life and marriage, fleeing, rebelling; dissatisfied with passive learning, work, independent pursuit of knowledge, entrepreneurship, etc., but this requires retrograde, will be accompanied by discomfort, resistance and even pain. Effort may not be successful, but not to work hard must be comfortable, this sentence is not wrong at all, the difference between people is whether to choose a lifetime of comfort, or choose to choose seemingly endless effort.
The film is actually based on the short story "Planning Group" by the famous American science fiction writer Philip Dick. Although the film quotes the novel's framework for the Destiny Bureau, in reality, the two stories are not related. There is neither a parliamentarian nor free will to insist on for love in the novel.
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In the novel "Planning Group", it is also about an office worker who arrives at the company on time because of a clerk's mistake, and the planning team in the building where the company is located is "adjusting". The protagonist, Ed, is also frightened by the person holding various instruments in front of him, and begins to run away, telling his wife about the strange things in the company. Similarly, he still did not escape the planning team's pursuit.
After learning of the existence of the Destiny Bureau, Ed also promised not to leak secrets, and now the only thing to deal with is how to make his wife think that what he said at that time was nonsense. After returning home, Ed, facing his wife's constant questioning, was about to be overwhelmed, when the doorbell suddenly rang, and it was the person who sold the vacuum cleaner who came to visit. End of story.
Philip Dick's novels are shorter and more pithy than the movies, and the beginnings and endings are well used.
At the beginning, because the area where Ed's company is located is going to be adjusted extensively today, the planning team came to Ed's door and asked Ed's dog to bark at 7:05 on time, so that a person would be summoned to take Ed early, but the dog clerk missed the time due to snoozing, resulting in an insurance salesman summoned after barking, and after the insurance salesman talked, Ed rushed to work, which led to Ed's arrival at the company just when the planning team was "adjusting".
At the end, just when Ed did not know how to deal with his wife's questioning, the dog outside the door barked again, and after a while, the doorbell rang, and a vacuum cleaner salesman came, interrupting the couple's quarrel and began to demonstrate the role of a vacuum cleaner for Ed's wife. This time, the dog clerk summoned the next element just in time.
Philip Dick wrote forty-four novels and one hundred and twenty-one short stories in his lifetime, ten of which were "Blade Runner," "Minority Report," and "Total Remembrance," which were all brought to the big screen in Hollywood after his death. During Philip Dick's lifetime, his works were published in cheap magazines and were not loved by the public.
Looking at philip dick's work now, I have to admit that he was a genius of fantasy. Similarly, he himself was tormented by hallucinations and reality, and he claimed to live under a dual personality, one of himself and the other being Thomas, a Christian disciple persecuted by the Roman Empire in the first century AD. In addition, Philip read a wide range of topics, including religion, philosophy, metaphysics, etc., and later with the combination of fantasy and rich books, Philip began to become paranoid, even deduced that he may have schizophrenia, began to write novels on the theme of schizophrenia, and also wrote a paper called "Schizophrenia and the I Ching".
In this strange state, Philip's marriage also became unstable, and he had a total of five marriages, all of which ended in divorce. In his Planning Group, marriage is an endless and noisy lifestyle, and arguing with his wife may often exhaust him.
Although free will in the film is an additional theme given by the director, in the novel, there is still a rebellious response to the planning of fate. The protagonist, Ed, is horrified to see the work of the planning team and "sees the back of the world, hides under the illusion, and sees what the world really looks like." But when the planning team approached him and asked him to keep it a secret, he accepted, and without hesitation promised to hide it from his wife.
After Philip finishes writing his short story, the reader is left with the question "What is the truth of this world?" ”
Is the planning team adjusting our behavior in a timely manner? Are they hiding our phones to delay us out of the house? They blocked our network for a minute, is it that we can't get the important information just now?
Behind everything that is taken for granted, will there be a key to our destiny hidden? Will we pass by the ideal object within a minute of our bowed head and sending a message? Maybe even because you are doing someone else a favor and missing a bus, you will never encounter a second "love" on the bus that you missed?
Our life now is not determined by our thoughts and ideas, but by the thousands of choices that preceded it. As long as you change any of these options, your life can change dramatically. Even so, we will make the next decision without hesitation, which is life.