Ok so first off the movie ended in 2009, but was released in 2011 (11). So there's that. But my ears perked up the second time I heard the number 17 used. I forget the dialogue at the time but it was the second time it was used in a short period of time and it was referencing different things so at that point I put my Q goggles on and really started paying attention. Here are some things I noticed.

David Norris (Matt Damon) is a young (obviously liberal) Congressman from New York (Trump is from New York) who decides to run for Senate, but a couple of fairly mild, but apparently important scandals that the media jumped all over lead to him losing his first bid and he goes back (the first was a bar fight he got into the night he won his congressional seat--which some people loved and saw as "authentic" and a week before the election he was up in the polls when a video of him mooning his friends at a party in college was released.)

This led the media to saying he wasn't mature enough for the position, that he didn't have "the temperament" for Washington, and the people bought that idea hook, line, and sinker. He loses badly. So he's in the bathroom at the Waldorf hotel rehearsing his concession speech but unbeknownst to him there's this beautiful woman, Elise (Emily Blunt) sitting in the one of the stalls hiding from security for having crashed a wedding upstairs, listening to the whole thing.

She finally makes her way out when his ramblings start to get a bit too personal and she levels with him, and tells him exactly why she didn't respond when he first walked in, and how after he started she felt like she was in no-man's land and just couldn't say anything and yada yada, they totally vibe, he says maybe losing is a good thing because he's looking forward to some time alone away from the cameras, she calls bullshit and then they kiss.

Now, I looked up the script for this movie online. And there's some dialogue they actually cut out here that I also think is telling. See, she tells David in the movie that she was hiding from security because she had just crashed a wedding that was going on upstairs, but she didn't mention which wedding. But check out what it says in the script:

David: What are you doing in here? (the bathroom)

Elise: Hiding from security.

David: Oh...what did you do?

Elise: Crashed a wedding. One floor up.

David: It's almost midnight. They just caught on now?

Elise: Ivana Trump finally realized I wasn't her niece. I think after the fifth glass of champagne my Czech accent started slipping.

It doesn't stop there though, in the script online I typed in the number 17. It's listed exactly 11 times in the script. One of those 17 times it's just the page number, but regardless, it appears on that physical script exactly 11 times (it's my understanding from this forum that 11 is some kind of lucky number, obviously 17 is Q).

The next time it appears in the script he's asking a Taxi driver to take him to "17th street, between 10th and 11th" (there's that 11 again)

So this is where I'm really getting autistic but the coincidences are really just starting to kill me. I googled 17th street and 10th in New York City and what do I find there? A pizza parlor called Artichoke Basille's Pizza.

Ok well, New York City has a pizza place on almost every corner, so maybe that's not such a coincidence. But I went to their website to see if anything else stood out, and wouldn't you know it, Artichoke Basille's Pizza has...wait for it...17 locations across the country. I don't know what that could mean, but fuck me, that's another 17.

I also did a little digging into Artichoke Basille's Pizza. Went through their instagram posts to see if any comet ping pong looking stuff popped up. There were a few pictures of kids eating or looking at the pizza--they could be construed as a little weird but not really. There's one post with a girl holding a pizza slice up covering her right eye supposedly to show off the size of their pieces but that made me raise an eyebrow, but there IS a picture of Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone 2 in the back of a limo eating pizza and apparently drinking wine, so that could be something I don't know. There's also a picture of a woman holding a slice high above her head with the pizza slice pointing down at her face and she kind of looks like she's eating balls to be honest, but the painting on the wall behind her is the more interesting part I think. It's got two eyes with a third eye painted above them where the third eye supposedly is. The caption reads "OG vertical slice eating + #art / dope background? Can we make this a thing?"

I don't know. The whole page seems pretty innocent to me, just those few images that have my spidey senses tingling a little bit. But there you go.

Anyway, as they exit the bathroom security spots her and she runs off without giving him her phone number. He's disappointed but also invigorated and inspired by his little encounter, and when he walks out on stage a couple minutes later to give his concession speech, he starts off with what he rehearsed but then stops, remembers the girl, rethinks his approach, and starts to speak from the heart (remind you of anyone?).

He admits that the line he just delivered about it not mattering whether or not you get knocked down, but what you do when you get back up was just some bullshit that they focus grouped. He then reminds people that one of the things that made him so popular to begin with was that people truly saw him as authentic (why did we all fall in love with Trump? Authenticity). He peels back the curtain a bit more and tells people that they gave $7300 to a consultant just to tell them the perfect amount of scuff he should have on his shoes, the color of the tie he should wear, etc. The crowd loved it. The media loved it. And he was instantly named the front runner to win if he ran again in 4 years.

Enter the Adjustment Bureau. They call themselves "the people who make sure the important things in the world go according to PLAN." They explain that they've been involved throughout time and have back off from time to time only to see humanity throw itself into the dark ages, two world wars, and finally, nuclear war. They know that one morning, as David Norris is about to start his new job in the private sector, that he's going to run into Elise again on the bus on his way to work.

This domino would be tragic for their plans, as apparently, while Elise inspired David in the first place to give that speech that put him back on the path to what would eventually be the White House, that in large doses, she knocks him off track completely, so they need to stop this encounter from happening. The agent (or angel--it's not entirely clear what these guys are in the movie) assigned to his case is supposed to get David to spill his coffee on his shirt while he's walking through the park on his way to the bus stop, so he'll go back to his office to change, miss the bus, and then arrive at his office ten minutes late, giving the Adjustment Bureau time to manipulate the mind of his business partner to agree to going into the solar business--something they know will play well for him politically and help him win the election in four years.

But his agent falls asleep in the park, David makes his bus, runs into Elise again, and the whole plan is thrown into disarray. David gets her phone number this time, arrives at work on schedule, and finds everyone in his office seemingly frozen in time, and sees a couple of stormtrooper looking guys waving wands around his business partner's head, getting him to change his thinking on the solar investment. They see him, chase him, and eventually catch him and take him to a warehouse where they finally have to just level with him, tell them who they are, tell him he can never tell anyone of their existence or they'll lobotomize him, and then tell him he can never see Elise again as they burn the paper she wrote her number on amidst his futile protestations. David goes to a bar to drown out his pain at having lost the girl's number and is scribbling on a napkin to see if he can remember the last four digits.

Ok this is where it gets super weird for me. At EXACTLY 1 hour and 17 minutes into the movie, David is back at the bar where he's trying to remember Elise's phone number, but this time there was some graffiti scribbled in chalk on the outside of the bar (supposedly to indicate the passage of time) but read what it says: "24 hours in a day. 24 beers to a case. Coincidence? I think not."

I shit you not that scene is at exactly 1:17:00 into the movie. What the fuck.

So at this point I'm really geeking out and paying close attention.

So 3 years go by, he's on his way to make a speech announcing his Senate run, when he sees Elise again walking on the sidewalk next to the bus. He jumps off the bus, runs after her, and invites her to breakfast at a nearby coffee place. They vibe like crazy, but then his business partner and campaign manager magically shows up and tries to get him to leave to go give his speech. He's determined not to lose her again though so he says "Where can I see you later?" She tells him that she's rehearsing just across the water (watch the water) from where he's giving his speech at PIER 17 (what the fuck?) He says he'll meet her there as soon as he's done. As he's giving his speech he keeps turning around and seeing the big number 17 like 5 times. The adjustment bureau gets her dance company to move their rehearsal to another location and David seems doomed to lose her again.

But by sheer will, he finds out where they've moved their location to, and sees her dance, which the Adjustment Bureau knows will make him so obsessed he can never let her go. They leave the scene, dejected, and David and Elise hang out the whole night, vibing like crazy. At that point he confesses to her why he wanted to go into politics in the first place. It was because his Dad and brother had both died tragically (didn't Trump's dad and brother die tragically?) and that his dad had taken him to DC as a kid to get his mind off his brother's death because his dad growing up had been completely obsessed with...wait for it...John F. Kennedy.

Anyway, long story short (but still long, I know), the Bureau this time convinces David to break up with Elise because if he doesn't, she'll end up spending her life teaching dance to 6 year olds rather than becoming a world renown dancer and choreographer. This was a lie, but David buys it, and leaves her alone again with no way to contact her. 11 months go by (there's THAT number again), he's in the home stretch of his Senate run and he's up big, and right after a speech, his campaign manager hands him a newspaper article about Elise. It mentions she's made a QUANTUM LEAP in her career in the main article (many of us believe that the Q team has access to a Quantum AI so this hit nicely too), but another article further down announces that she's getting married the next day to her ex boyfriend.

They cut to Elise looking at the marriage certificate that she hasn't signed yet, but it shows her birth date: 11/11/77 (kind of a neat way to combine 11:11 and 17) and she lives on 1732 w. 10th street.

So David (vs. Goliath?) along with his case agent (having earned his sympathy at this point), concoct a plan whereby he can use the agent's hat to pass through several random doors to arrive at the courthouse and stop the wedding. He finds her in the bathroom, clearly struggling with her decision, knocks out an agent that comes through the door, and knowing he can't explain what's going on her has to show her (some people can't be told, they have to be shown, it had to be this way) they leave through a door that opens into Yankee Stadium, then through another door that leads to...the Statue of Liberty (seems appropriate). He now gives her the choice to never see him or the agents again, or to stick with him for whatever time he (or the both of them) have left. She chooses to stay, but rather than run by turning the door handle they just came through to the right, they turn it to the left, sending them to the agents' HQ where David hopes to speak and reason with the Chairman to change his fate. They get to the top floor, but it's just an empty rooftop, and the stormtrooper guys quickly surround them. Accepting their fate, they say I love you and start kissing like it's the end of the world. When they look up, the stormtrooper guys are gone, the clouds part and the sun shines through (dark to light?). They're informed that the Chairman has considered the options, and rewritten the Plan so they can stay together and still accomplish their dreams.

Anyway, decent flick. And maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but as Q likes to say "How many coincidences until mathematically impossible?"

And as Morpheus likes to say "There ARE no coincidences."

So who knows, maybe I'm onto something.