The Adjustment Bureau/YMMV


 * Broken Aesop: The main message of the movie seems to be Screw Destiny, as the main character fights to defy "The Plan" and be with the girl he loves. Yet,
 * Hollywood History: We're told that letting humanity off the leash led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages. The fact that parts of the world outside Europe were doing just fine, or no worse than usual, during that period is ignored. Then again, this might be intentional; David calls attention to Thompson's selective focus when he treats the present like it's all good (to which he can only counter with "could be worse," basically), so Thompson may be deliberately emphasizing the negative.
 * Paranoia Fuel: The idea that your whole life's direction, down to what whether or not you're late for work, could be controlled by a group of cosmic beings, especially since.
 * The collapse went into the dark ages, which lead to the rise of power of the Catholic Church, which if it hadn't had happened may have went to a wholely different set of actions besides the Crusades. This is just one example. The rest of the world may have been "fine", but that doesn't mean there wasn't a large ripple effect. Think of "too big to fail" on a major scale.
 * White and Grey Morality: Given the Paranoia Fuel premise, the Plan that the bureaucrats carry out leads humanity in a generally positive direction. It becomes less a conflict of good vs. evil and more a debate on to what degree Humans Are Flawed, and how hard we're willing to work to make the Plan unnecessary.
 * Unfortunate Implications: In the ending,
 * The plan is not that detailed. They admit early on they cannot possibly track everyone.