Storytelling is really hard for me.
But I want to try it.
The Fate Planning Bureau has a pamphlet that shows the fate of the target person. Just like a map, a destiny that has been planned.
As the character's life moves forward, the fate line stretches along with it.
The male protagonist David Norris, who ran for the New York State Senate, had a bright future. After being exposed to a bar fight in a sorority club, people's hearts were lost.
While rehearsing a speech to celebrate the new congressman in the toilet, David meets the female protagonist who is being chased by the security guards for trying to avoid the wedding.
This is their first encounter. love at first sight.
The appearance of the female protagonist made the male protagonist's speech full of passion and novelty, won the praise of the public, and got a good job.
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Harry is a member of the Destiny Planning Bureau, and this time the task is to knock David's coffee, make him late for work, and miss the Planning Bureau's "re-school" for those around him.
But because of Harry's mistake, David met the heroine for the second time on the bus.
- "I'm Alice by the way."
- "I remember that."
- "That's my number."
- "Thank you." "I will call you."
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David, who went to work on time, saw the planning bureau in action, was kidnapped and educated.
The Planning Bureau explained to him what "re-school" meant.
"When people spill their coffee, or the internet connection goes down, or they can't find the keys, they think it's accidental, and sometimes it's true, but sometimes we do it."
"We help people get back into the program. Sometimes when the help doesn't work, the higher-ups do a reset and send out intervention teams."
"We're going to change the minds of these people."
David was ordered not to speak to anyone about the existence of the Planning Authority, and burned Alice's phone, forcing him to stay away from her life.
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David was at the bar, recalling Alice's phone call.
Harry persuaded him not to cling to it.
—— "Even if you can remember the number, you can never get through. The phone is lost, the number is changed, even the slightest change can be done."
What Destiny Bureau does is bring people's lives back to the way they should be on the pamphlet.
David's fate was not to be with Alice.
Davey was baffled by the existence and conduct of the Planning Authority. Harry explained something to him.
"We can't read your mind. But when you make a decision, you make a choice. That way we can sense and we know if you're going to play out of line, because if we're close enough, we can You can sense what's going to happen next."
"We're just here to make sure you're on schedule. That's all."
"We have to monitor the whole world, we can't monitor everyone all the time."
"Water can prevent us from reading your decision map."
"We used to be called angels, but we're more of a receiver."
- "Why didn't they let me be with Alice"
— "I just know that they put a lot of effort into keeping you separate is very important to them."
—— "Even if they don't stop you, there are nine million people in this city, you will never find him, forget her and go on with your life."
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three years have past.
Finally one day David saw Alice on the bus.
David said to Alice, "I don't have your number. I don't know your last name."
"If you google 'Alice' and you get 757,000 results, none of it is you."
Their fate lines are intertwined again.
Encounter is a very happy word.
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They meet, but are separated.
The people at the planning board went to great lengths not to let them see each other again.
David insisted on going to see Alice's dance rehearsal, and finally met Alice before the planning bureau.
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They talked about the three years that David had been gone.
Alice had a boyfriend and was close to getting married.
David asked, "Why didn't you marry him?"
Alice, "Because of you. I'm not a hopeless infatuation, and I never allow myself to be like that. But once the feeling comes, even if it's just for a moment. I call you so much, you've got me down, and I don't want to have it. Sorry. It left me at a loss."
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Someone from the Planning Bureau explains the relationship between David and Alice.
"The chemistry between them, the recurring points, the unexpected ending. You split them twice, and it just ended up making them meet again."
"David and Alice were meant to be together because they were meant to be together."
In the old version of the plan, they should be together.
But in the new version, their fate has been modified so that they shouldn't be together.
"The remnants of the old plan kept pushing them to meet. They still felt like they belonged to each other, even if they didn't."
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David is trapped by Thompson, the top of the Planning Bureau, who explains the role of the Destiny Planning Bureau in human history. And firmly believe that if they lose their restraint, human beings will be blinded by their emotions and hinder the development of society.
David, "Can't people just play as they please?"
Thompson, "Actually we've tried it before."
"Maybe next time, before removing the auxiliary wheels, you should teach people how to ride a bicycle."
"We teach you how to restrain impulse with reason."
"People can no longer be allowed to play freely, but people are still free on the surface."
"Human nature is not mature enough to make decisions on big things."
Thompson told David that meeting Alice for the first time at the hotel was also designed. Because she would inspire his speeches and bring him back to the hearts of the people.
Thompson, "You can change the world, but she's holding you back."
"You cannot escape your fate."
David replied, "I just don't want to follow the fate you said. I know how I feel about her. This feeling will not change. I have the right to decide for myself."
"No matter what happens, I will choose her."
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Thompson let David go and let him see Alice would be hurt by his decision, forcing him to give up.
Thompson, "Alice is going to be one of the most famous dancers in America, and eventually the greatest choreographer in the world. With you, she's only going to teach six-year-olds how to dance."
"When you look back on all this, don't blame us for not reminding you."
Finally, David gave up on Alice for her dream. At that time, Alice was injured and admitted to the hospital under the design of the Planning Bureau.
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Harry kept thinking about whether they were doing it right or wrong.
His superiors told him, "The director has his own plans, and what we see is only part of it."
But Harry couldn't help the guilt in his heart and found David again, "She is everything to you, if you are together, you don't need to fill your empty heart with applause and votes, and you don't need to dream of living in the White House one day. ... It's important, but not the only reason."
The Planning Bureau wants David to save the world, not Xiaoqing Xiaoai.
Harry and David's father and brother were also related, and it was hard for him to see David's state of being forced by fate.
Alice was about to get married.
Harry decides to help David get back Alice.
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Harry taught David the way to go through the door to another space. Each door is a specific pass, and there is a specific spot behind the door.
Only wearing a hat can pass through the door, which is one of the chief's methods of limiting their power. Water is another.
David, "I guess you shouldn't sympathize with the target, and you shouldn't feel guilty."
Harry, "We're not like you, we go with our guts. But that doesn't mean we don't have feelings."
David finds Alice in an unknown situation in the bathroom and takes her through various doors to avoid the pursuit of the planning bureau.
His own destiny has been dominated by others, David decided to change the status quo.
David, "Why do they think it's wrong?"
"If only I could find someone who wrote the book."
Faced with the overwhelmed Alice, David lets her choose.
"I can walk through this door alone and you won't see me or our chasers again. Or you can follow me, I don't know what's on the other side, but I know you'll be by my side."
"I hoped so when I first saw you."
Alice said to the man in front of her, "I'll go with you."
David decided to find someone who would write the plan. The key word is the direction the door handle turns.
Harry had told David to turn the doorknob clockwise.
Harry, "the door handle must be turned clockwise"
Davy, "What if we turned the other way?"
Harry, "I advise you not to do this, only we can."
When David and Alice were cornered, they turned the doorknob to the left and opened the last door to the Planning Bureau's base.
Harry, who came back from the director's office, told Thompson, who was persuading David and Alice, that the director had a new plan.
David asked, "Harry, are you the chief?"
Harry smiled. "No. You've all seen him/her. Everyone has, and the chief is different for everyone, so people rarely realize it."
David was puzzled, "Is this a test?"
Harry went on to explain, "In a sense, these are trials. For everyone, even for the members of the Destiny Bureau."
The two of them are desperate for each other, desperate.
"You have inspired me, and it seems that you have also inspired the Director."
Harry told them, "(The plan) says your situation is contrary to the plan, so the director has rewritten the plan."
-- "now what?"
- "You can take the stairs now."
They no longer need to use the magic of the hat to pass through the door.
They will walk together step by step in their future lives.
"Most people live according to the life we have planned, and they don't dare to find another way. But there will also be people like you who have overcome all the obstacles we have laid."
"Free will is a gift, and if you don't fight hard, you'll never know how to use it. I think that's the director's real plan."
"Maybe one day, it will no longer be us who will write the plan, but yourself."
When I have come a long way and look back, I always feel fortunate. I'm glad those misfortunes didn't happen to me.
We love the script that's choreographed, the game that's designed, because they all work out the way they are supposed to.
We like to take things into our own hands. However, because it cannot be fully grasped, there is a statement of fate.
We hate the feeling of not being in control and see it as being in control of our lives. is destiny.
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The planning book had planned David and Alice's encounter, so they met.
In the vast sea of people, the chance of two people missing is terrible. It's like the road network in the center of the city. After I just passed the intersection, you happened to appear at the intersection. This is the norm.
We can't see the missed moments, because no one is the protagonist of the movie, and there is no camera to record our life all day long.
Fate said we were to meet, so you appeared; fate said you were going to separate, so you didn't appear anymore.
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The arrangement of fate in the film is embodied as the task of the people in the planning bureau. They cut off the telephone network, changed the traffic lights, arranged for David's boss to spoil the atmosphere, and they followed the words in the plan and made some adjustments to bring people's lives back to the plan.
In fact, these behaviors are very funny, like playing a house.
But this is the real life. These trivialities that I experience every day are my life.
I realize these funny things are what drove you to leave me.
Suddenly I don't feel funny anymore, I don't want to see these ridiculous behaviors anymore. I just feel sad.
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Changes are like water ripples. As long as the water surface is touched, the ripples will continue to extend.
The time passes long enough and the distance is far enough apart, and the impact will be small enough to be ignored. However, if the amplitude of the water wave center is strong enough, it will cause a large-scale long-term impact, reaching the peak of the water wave effect that can be tolerated. At this time, the high-level planning bureau needs to come forward to solve it.
The identity of the director of the planning bureau has always been mysterious, and Harry mentioned the director during his first meeting with David.
David asked him, "You mentioned authorization. Who authorized it?"
Harry replied, "Director."
David was puzzled, "Director?"
Harry explained, "It's just a code name that we use. You use a lot of other names."
Reminds me of an American drama called "God's Girl".
There is a girl who can see God. God is the different people around her, it may be a mason, it may be a repairman, it may be a classmate in the lower grades.
These people of different identities live around the girl, and their words and actions will have an impact on her life.
When she mentioned God to others, they thought she was sick and sent her to a psychiatrist for treatment.
Until the end of the first season, the director did not give a clear answer to whether God really exists.
I didn't find the second season. But I think even if there is a second part, the answer to the question of whether God exists or not will still only exist in the hearts of the audience.
The god in this show is like the director of the planning bureau. He can be anyone around you, or even not a human being. But his presence mirrors our lives and affects our lives.
I think, if it exists, then our destiny plan is indeed compiled when we are born. Or that it existed before we were born, when our parents fell in love, before our grandparents even met.
The Secretary takes into account various factors around us and formulates a plan based on the choices we will make. In the history of human beings, there have been too many cases of human civilization being hindered due to the immaturity of human nature, so the Planning Bureau is like a god-like existence and affects the lives of some people. They find a target person who will have a major impact on the course of human history, change a factor in their life, and allow them to make choices that make human society progress.
People in the planning bureau are assigned tasks to make the target person live according to the plan, which seems ridiculous to others.
In fact, the planning book is the path people take after making different choices. It's just that the lives of important people are determined by the director.
We act by feeling, weighing reason and emotion, and making choices. This is our own life, and we are not sure how this will affect the world.
The existence of the Destiny Planning Bureau is to analyze the impact of each character's fate on the world. Fate for them is as clear and simple as the city road network.
The planning bureau selects the target people, among the possibilities of their fate, there are options that are more valuable to human society. After weighing the pros and cons, the Planning Bureau will create factors that are in line with the planning and make it develop in the direction of promoting a better society.
How would the conditions that affect our choices come about without the intervention of the planning board?
This is fate in the true sense, those factors and conditions that appear by chance.
And a movie is a movie after all. The Bureau of Planning exists only to illustrate that if our hearts want to do something, we have to do it even if it is hindered.
I imagine that in the vast sea of people, there is a person who has a love that belongs to me. I still believe in the existence of love.
In the end it was fate that brought us together. After all, if we hadn't met, how could I love you.
I tried to get myself close to you, and lost you in the process.
Love is very persistent. Since fate made me meet you, how can I easily let you go.
I know that the choices I make are driving the next juncture in my life. But I'm not nervous or in a hurry, I want to live my life the way I want to.
I still have you in my heart.
Whether it is fate already arranged, or if you want fate to have such an arrangement, what should be experienced always has to be experienced. Things that can't be done, follow the arrangement of fate, and things that are unwilling to fight for it.
Let's go by feeling, I believe that fate will let us meet again.
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