Chicken soup will always say that life has no ifs. Simply put, the three butterfly effects are all about if life can really be read again. The
first part is a reverse causal chain. (Except Jimmy, the male protagonist never really regarded him as a friend) He got a happy end, but at the same time he sacrificed more and more. It is also his ability to frequently change reality that makes him gradually detached from reality and even human nature, from the person he loves to his own existence has become one of countless possibilities for him. What he has always done is to make others happy with the side effects of changing himself, so it is even a bit of a matter of course for him to be stillborn in the end. But I prefer the theatrical ending, which is more human and touching.
The only bright spot of the second part is probably that the child has inherited the talent to travel through time and space, and the story of several people started by chance.
There are many suspenseful elements in the third part, but unexpectedly, it is not a murderer but an arsonist. The title is revelation but it doesn't reveal anything related to the previous two. With the same ability, the male protagonist wants to be a superhero who will not destroy history, but his sister wants to be a god who can control the future at will ("We are different from them, the rules of ordinary people do not apply to us."). How can you respect a person's life when you can see the countless directions of his life at a glance. Whether or not the little girl can set fire to it, and how many Sams there were that night, are all details that differ from opinion to opinion. After going through everything, the protagonist finally made the original choice, but that doesn't mean that the reality that happened was the best, maybe it was just his daughter's (/another person's) plan.
Is it really that scary to change the past? Perhaps unacceptable results are just unintended consequences. The pessimistic philosophy says we're already in a world that can't get any worse, but does it all get better without a destructive change? The human brain almost never has the same consciousness twice, so the slightest change is a complete change, and every causal chain that has happened is not isolated and unrepeatable; maybe a moment you didn’t pay attention to in the past is affecting the present all the time. Your every move, and even if you can go back at will, in the end you can only endure it and cannot change it.
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