The Adjustment Bureau, director George Nolfi uses descriptive techniques to highlight the ideas and structural importance of the scene. The two protagonists are trying to escape the adjustment officers who are chasing them to erase the memory of each other, they are then chased up into a rooftop and cornered unable to escape. When the officers eventually vanish after the characters kiss a good officer speaks to them and explains to them that the chairman had re wrote the two lovers plan. He tells them how the chairman believes that anyone can change their plan if they truly fight for what they want, this was the main message of the film. The whole idea in the film is to educate and persuade viewers that they should fight for what they want. Dialogue, body language and camera angles helped express this idea and highlight the importance of it.

In this scene the technique of body language is extremely important. It helps us expand and understand their thinking and motives. Without a use of body language, the viewers would have an almost impossible chance of recognising the plot and what the characters purpose is. When the two main characters are trying to escape from the officers they are panicked yet determined on their case because they are still holding hands and showing some examples of intimacy for one another. This point is valid for when they embrace in a passionate kiss too, because everything stops around them, taking them into the moment with one another. The audience experiences the passion too, that they are fighting the forces stopping them from what they want, with showing affection and that they would rather be together one last time and have their memories wiped, than be without each other forever. When the officers eventually vanish their expressions are left dazed and confused. The final ending scene includes David and Elise together holding hands again in embrace, with the good officer speaking while their actions takes place on the screen. The final shot is of the officer acknowledging the couple silently on the street, by bowing his iconic hat. The use of body language gives the audience a mutual relationship to the characters thoughts and feelings, almost being able to experience it through their eyes. 

The use of precise camera angles is also another bold technique. Nofli used this to expand the visual interpretation of the viewers, and to help create a real experience for them too. Camera angles helps the audience feel in the moment and to have the same emotions and passion as they would be seeing it through their eyes or how Nolfi would like them to see it. In the shot of David and Elise embracing in a kiss, the camera is showing from multiple angles, the officers, the background and the couple. Expanding our minds on the importance of their actions to be with one another. There is a range of close ups and wider shots which show that they are above on a high skyscraper able to see the city below. ‘On top of the world’ as the whole scene of the protagonists are told that the plan has been changed after fighting for what they want and believe in and that their efforts have paid off and they have achieved what they so greatly wanted. The final shot of David and Elise together is following them creating a space that the viewer can be experiencing their achievement alongside. The use of camera angles is an incredibly important part of developing the whole idea of the film ‘to fight for what you want’ and to help the audience relate somehow to see what it’s like through the characters eyes.

Nolfi used the technique of sound to show how the character is feeling during certain situations. The viewers cannot physically be alongside or with the protagonists, so Nolfi used supporting audio to show how passionately David and Elise needed to be together. The use of sound shows the panic when there is loud music playing while they run up and down the stairs, trying to escape the officers. Then the music stops and all you can hear is footsteps and heavy breathing when they realise that this is it, and that they have failed. It’s as if their heart stops when they understand that they will never be together. This shows the passion that they have towards one another that they need to be happy. This passion drives them to fight for what they want and eventually this causes the chairman to change the plan. Leaving both David and Elise able to live the rest of their lives together. The good officer who helps David along the way quotes the last shot “People who realize free will is a gift you’ll never know how to use until you fight for it” This quote overlays a shot of the two protagonists happily together, walking down the street. The use of dialogue clearly shows us that the two characters would rather die or be barely living with their memories wiped than be without each other. These actions turned the chairman because they truly fought for what they wanted.

The director, Nofli used the techniques of body language, camera angles and sound to display the whole flims idea, to fight for what you want or believe in. Sometimes things may not go to the plan or we may even want to change our plan, but we need to actually fight for what we want. David and Elise challenged this and it paid off. We can’t just follow along with everything, eventually need to push back and create our own plan.