It’s a good time to be a paranoid moviegoer. The Adjustment Bureau, based on a story by Philip K. Dick, will no doubt provoke some comparisons to Inception, with its portrait of a world in which our actions and decisions are at the mercy of other people with mysterious powers of influence. Those aren’t the only ones either. Shutter Island, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The International, and plenty of other movies indulge our certainty that there are those out there with almost absolute control over our fates.
