Bonus Raid: The Adjustment Bureau

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For this Bonus Raid, I decided to watch The Adjustment Bureau with my roommate, Mark Vos. This movie seems to represent a conspiracy theorist's dream in which a secret organization called “The Adjustment Bureau” controls all of human history and has designed a plan that includes each and every individual. The Bureau makes sure that no person deviates from this plan by either distracting us with little inconveniences or (in extreme cases) by messing with our brains in attempts to alter the way in which we reason our way to making a decision. It is not hard to see that the second tactic used by The Bureau raises the question and topic of free will.
This movie seems to suggest that, when left to our own devices, the choices that we would freely

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