Detailed explanation of "Butterfly Effect"-to those who can't go back to the past that can't be changed
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The Butterfly Effect, released in 2004, is a really awesome sci-fi movie that crosses the subject. There are nine times across four timelines in the plot. The version is divided into a director's cut version and a theater version. The theater version has three different endings. I want to know this. The movie is explained in detail, and the length is definitely very impressive, so the judges must be mentally prepared, a lot of text and pictures are about to hit...
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The male protagonist Evan suffers from amnesia. This amnesia is a memory overlay or tampering produced by the 20-year-old self in order to make reality better and return to the past.
Evan lived with his mother during his childhood and had two very close friends:
One is the home of Kayleigh (female host) & Tommy (the hostess's brother), and the second is Lenny (little fat man).
After adulthood, every time Evan travels through and revises history, it is for the above-mentioned people to have a better ending in their lives.
The film has three time periods: the first is 7 years old, the second is 13 years old, and the third is 20 years old.
The first quarter of the film tells about a number of events that happened to the male protagonist Ivan at the age of 7 and 13. During this period, Evan had 6 amnesias. The first 4 occurred at the age of 7 and the last 2 occurred. At the age of 13, they are:
1. Classroom painting event
Evan drew a picture of killing two people with a knife in school, and lost his memory. When his mother learned about it, he took him to the doctor. The doctor suggested that Evan keep a diary to strengthen his memory.
2. The kitchen knife incident
His mother sent Evan to Tommy & Kayleigh's house because of something. Before leaving, she found Evan holding a knife in the kitchen and had amnesia.
3. Basement shooting* video event
After arriving at Tommy & Kayleigh's house, his father used a video recorder to record Evan and Kayleigh. Evan lost his memory and found himself and Kayleigh naked when he woke up.
4. Meeting with Dad
The hospital gave a diagnosis. The doctor believed that Evan was under too much psychological pressure. He suggested that his mother take Evan to see his father because he lost his memory when he met. When he woke up, his father had to choke himself to death.
On the way home from the funeral, tombstones flashed out of the car windows, life and death separated, time passed, and Evan was 13 years old in a blink of an eye.
5. Detonator incident
The 13-year-old Evan is still with Tommy, Kayleigh, and Lenny. The characters and relationships of the four have been finalized. Evan and Kayleigh fall in love, Tommy is tyrannical, and Lenny is cowardly. Tommy found a detonator in his father's basement and encouraged his friends to play blasting. Under the instigation of Tommy and Evan, Lenny put the detonator in the mailbox of Mrs. Halpern's backyard. While waiting for the detonator to explode, Evan covered Kayleigh's ears and lost his memory. When he woke up, he found a group of people fleeing in the woods in a panic. At the same time, Lenny was too frightened and fainted and was taken to the hospital. Afterwards, Evan had no ink in the refill in his diary, and in the process of searching for the refill, he accidentally found the photo album used by his father to travel through and the death certificate of his grandfather, laying the foundation for this disease to be inherited in the family. Then he went to receive hypnotherapy with his mother. Hypnosis can reproduce his memory, but the effect is not good, and the sequelae of nosebleeds is also left behind. During this period, Evan went to the theater to watch "The Seven Deadly Sins" with Kayleigh and Tommy. The conflict between Evan who loves Kayleigh and Tommy who loves sisters finally deteriorated. Before going to the theater to pick up Evan, my mother saw the explosion on TV. On the way back from the rainy night, she told Evan to move.
6. Dog abuse incident
Before moving, Evan and Kayleigh went to see Lenny, who had returned from the hospital. At this time, Lenny was already showing symptoms of depression. After learning that Tommy was not there, the three of them went for a walk in the woods and suddenly saw smoke in the distance and approached. It was discovered that Tommy was putting Evan's pet dog into a bag to be burned to death. During the dispute, Tommy accidentally injured his sister and beat Evan severely. Evan lost his memory and woke up the dog is dead. When Kayleigh was moving, Evan wrote to her I'LL COME BACK FOR YOU through the car window ...
The Yiren frowned, and Xiao Lang was a passerby from now on. The best ending of the theater version was indeed modified by history. The two eventually became passersby. But the reason why this movie is so awesome is that it has the most widespread popularity. The director’s cut version of, and this version is a total tragedy, because only in tragedy can people be truly satisfied. In addition, from the fact that the father wants to choke Evan to death and the fortune telling witch emphasizes that Evan has no soul and does not belong to this world, signs show that only death is the best ending.
Time flies again, the male protagonist is 20 years old, and is about to enter the era of flying away.
Before starting to fly into the sky, let’s introduce Evan’s traversing skills. There are three types of traversing:
The first type of crossing is the reappearance of memories, just returning to the original amnesia scene, reappearing the memories that were lost at the beginning, without changing oneself or changing history, waking up and still returning to the timeline before the crossing, nothing for anything Any impact. For example, the first, sixth, and eighth crossing is a memory reappearance.
The second type of crossing is to change oneself, which is to leave a mark on oneself. Since it has not affected the historical progress, after waking up, you will still return to the timeline before crossing. For example, the second and fourth crossings belong to changing oneself.
The third type of crossing is to change history and give birth to a new timeline and new history, such as the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th crossings.
Okay, let's start crossing now.
In the initial timeline, 20-year-old Evan is a psychology undergraduate who is very popular with the teacher. Once she came back to prepare fried rice after teasing her sister, she turned out the diary under the bed and forced Evan to read the diary. So Evan found out that he could travel through the diary.
In order not to confuse the narrative, a label is written before each event. The first number represents the number of crossings, the second number is the number of amnesia incidents, and the last remark is the type of crossing.
1-6-Memory reappearance
The first crossing was to return to the sixth amnesia incident. Evan returned to the grove where Tommy abused the dog and witnessed Lenny’s "I can't get it open" and Tommy’s second sentence of intimidating Lenny. "Drop it or I'll slit your mother's throat in her sleeo", these two sentences are very important and can prove that the male protagonist has indeed traveled to the past. Evan's journey is a memory reappearance and has no effect on history, so after waking up, the girl who encouraged him to save his diary is still in front of her eyes.
In order to confirm his journey, Evan found Lenny. At this time, Lenny was already a depressed patient, but Lenny repeated the two sentences from the dog abuse incident, so Evan believed that he could indeed go back in time.
2-5-Change yourself
After returning to the dormitory from Lenny, Evan was still thinking about it. He picked up the diary and crossed again, this time crossing to the detonator incident. Evan went back in shock and released his hand covering Kayleigh's ears. At the same time, the cigarette fell on his clothes and left a scar on his belly. Evan’s journey did not change history. He just witnessed the scene where Mrs. Halpern and her daughter were killed by a detonator and Lenny was stunned, but he changed himself and left a scar on his belly. The scar here is for the subsequent prison situation Make a foreshadowing.
After Evan returned to reality, he called Lenny's house again, but Lenny's condition worsened and his mother refused Evan's visit again. Just then Evan’s mother arrived. Evan asked her mother about his father’s past, and realized that father started to travel at the age of 20, and then went to fortune-telling together. After reading Evan’s palmistry, the witch said that he does not belong to this world and has no soul. . My mother was very sad and went out to smoke-smoking was also a pavement for the late stage of lung cancer caused by excessive smoking due to sadness in another timeline.
My mother told Evan that she had had two births before, and she also hinted in vaguely that perhaps Evan’s brother or sister had also been in this world, and had experienced many ups and downs, and also wanted to go back to the past to make up for the mistakes, but they all failed. If you wish, you can only choose to end your life before coming to this world, because only if you have not lived, there is no sorrow, and it will not bring sorrow to others...
Evan found his first love, Kayleigh, and found that his life was very bad. When Evan asked about the third amnesia in childhood, which is the detailed process of the basement shooting* video incident, he touched Kayleigh, who was tortured by his pedophile father. Kayleigh blamed Evan painfully, and committed suicide that night.
After learning about the bad news from Tommy's message, Evan attended Kayleigh's funeral and pasted the I'LL COME BACK FOR YOU paper that he was a teenager on to Kayleigh's coffin. This seems to indicate Evan's determination to make up for his regret-I will definitely "go back" to find you, to go back to an earlier time, not just to fulfill my promise, but to make you no longer suffer in this life.
So in order to be better today, Evan began to constantly travel to the past, time and time again, until he had to stop at the beginning of his life, smiling with tears toward the path of life that he could not participate in.
Change the past for the first time: for love. We may all have this kind of thinking. If I could be as mature as I am today, I would definitely love you better and I would definitely stop making you wronged.
3-3-Change history
Before the third amnesia, Evan followed Kayleigh's father to the basement. When Kayleigh's father kept urging them to take off their clothes, Evan whispered to Kayleigh to cover his ears, and then swallowed with the manner Zhuge Liang used to scold Wang Lang. He Shan's righteousness was strict, and he directly panicked the pedophile father and lied like a lie. Finally, I did not forget to teach the perverted father to severely discipline Tommy who is abusive.
After crossing back, Evan would have a nosebleed as usual. At the same time, he found that the first love who was very successful was lying next to him. The happiness came so suddenly, so it was Evan's turn to lie. When dealing with the nosebleed, he encountered the initial timeline. The woman in the Kayleigh working bar (there is a surprise here) has become Kayleigh’s classmate at this time. This detail shows that the impact of passing through the revision history is immeasurable and may change the fate of everyone. This is the butterfly effect.
Evan, who was proud of the spring breeze, decided to propose to Kayleigh. He was suddenly told by his brother that his car had been smashed. Both Evan and Kayleigh knew from the dog collar hung on the rear mirror that Tommy was the one who smashed the car. Paradoxically, in the final battle, Evan killed Tommy and eventually sent himself to prison.
Because of his good looks, he had to choose soap. After he was exhausted, he deceived the pious inmates, saying that Jesus entrusted him with a dream and asked the inmates to help him.
4-1-Change yourself
Since the diary was snatched by the brothers in prison, the remaining pages did not describe the key events and could not change the past, so Evan could only go back to the first painting amnesia incident. With chrysanthemums and wounds on the ground, Evan traveled through Later, angrily drew the picture of killing the leader of the brother’s gang, and pierced his own hands. Because this time crossing only left a mark on himself like the first time, it did not change the history. At the same time, the film set It must be where the timeline should be crossed. If history has not changed, you can only return to this timeline. Therefore, Evan returned to prison with scars. In addition, if history is not changed, there is no need for nosebleeds.
Changing history for the second time: This time changing history can be considered to be for myself, because I messed up the good, I was imprisoned, and the beauty was sad and disappointed... Go back, no matter where you go back.
5-6-change history
The pious inmate looked at Evan in front of him and fainted for a few seconds. After a few seconds, scars appeared on the palms of both hands. He felt that the Lord had finally summoned himself. It was time to go up to the sword and down the fire, so he desperately helped Evan get rid of the chrysanthemum iron The boss of the brothers under the column. Evan took back the diary. Since the mother who visited the prison only brought two diaries, he didn't have much choice.
This time Evan once again returned to the dog abuse scene in the woods where he lost his memory for the sixth time. Evan found a sharp metal for Lenny in advance, and told him to cut the rope to redeem himself, and then went to stop Tommy from abuse of the dog. In the battle, Tommy missed and ruined his sister's face, and then Evan once again Zhuge Liang's upper body, a bit of justice and righteous words Later, Tommy repented and took the initiative to untie the rope, but Lenny, who didn't expect to be angry, killed Tommy from behind.
This timeline is the saddest. Tommy died, Lenny was put in a psychiatric hospital, and Kayleigh was eventually reduced to a prostitute due to his father's abuse and disfigurement.
In this timeline, Evan had another crossing before going to meet Kayleigh, but it was still a recurrence of history.
6-4-Reproduction of memory
Evan read the diary of meeting his father, and went back to the memory loss scene when he saw his father. He told his father that he could correct all this, but the father who had gone through many journeys but failed to know that only death is the best. At the beginning, I wanted to end my son's life. Returning to reality, Evan went to see Kayleigh, regretting that he always ruined other people's lives again and again, so he decided to go back to the past again.
The third time to change history can be said to be for friendship, in order to save Lenny, Kayleigh and even Tommy. Perhaps the previous regret in the subconscious made Evan want to sacrifice himself to complete a redemption, so this time he returned to the detonator incident.
7-5-Change history
Evan returned to the scene of the detonator incident. He ran out to remind Mrs. Halpern not to get close to the mailbox, and Tommy was summoned and ran out to throw Mrs. Halpern down to avoid her injury.
In this timeline, Lenny was not affected by the detonator incident, and Tommy has since then devoted himself to goodness. Although Evan was maimed, although his beloved Kayleigh chose to be with Lenny, he saw that the people he cared about were happy and happy. , Evan's heart is satisfied,
He even wanted to die to find relief. However, when he discovered that in this timeline, his mother was sad because of his disability and smoked excessively and caused lung cancer. He had to revise the history again to save his loved ones, but before this revision of the history He had a failed crossing.
8-2-Reappearance of memory
This time, he went back to the scene in his own kitchen before going to Kayleigh’s house. He wanted to take a knife to destroy the detonator so that there would be no explosions and he would not be maimed. You won’t get lung cancer because of this. But perhaps it was because my mother discovered that it disrupted the process of revising history. This time, the journey did not succeed in revising the history, but the memory was reproduced.
The fourth time to change history: for family, for dear ones.
9-3-change history
Evan went back to the basement to shoot the *video scene. He still went to find the detonator and lighted it to intimidate the pedophile uncle. During the dispute, the detonator fell to the ground and was picked up by Kayleigh. The detonator exploded and the fragrance disappeared.
Once again, history has gone wrong from the beginning... In this timeline, although my mother was saved, but her lover died early, and he was imprisoned in the hospital. Evan wanted to go back to history again, but found that there was no diary. The doctor realized that crossing does not necessarily seem to read the diary. It may be possible to see any pictures, images or texts related to history, so he asked his mother to bring home videos. And prepare for the last crossing.
Director's Cut Version of Ultimate Crossing
In the movie, the end-to-end correspondence is finally crossed. The director's cut version is watching the mother's production video. Evan returns to his mother's womb and commits suicide. After experiencing the pain, he discovers that the source of the pain is himself. This version is the most influential and widely spread version. Endless enjoyment, desire
Theatrical version of the ultimate crossing
In the theater version, Evan was watching a family gathering video. The first time I saw Kayleigh, his mother asked him to say hello. Evan returned to this scene, taking a few cycles of time and feeling frustrated and relieved, and cursed Kayleigh severely. , And looked at Kayleigh's background and said goodbye...I can't give you the future, I will pay you back now, the last love is letting go...There are three different endings in the timeline of the theater version:
Ending 1: Reunion, not recognized
Ending 2: Reunion, recognize each other
Ending 3: Open ending, Evan turns around and goes with Kayleigh
Although the Butterfly Effect movie belongs to science fiction, it is more like a story about fate in the cloak of science fiction. We all have the urge to go back to the past, and we all want to start anew to be a better version of ourselves, but our fate lies in it. Before, no matter what you do, no matter what choice you make, in the end, you will not be able to avoid endless frustration and pain. The cleanest way is to live in the future. This seems a bit pessimistic and negative, so the sage warned us sincerely, not to admonish the past, but to follow, telling us that we are full of mountains and rivers, and it is better to take pity on the people in front of us. However, the reason why there are so many endless joys and sorrows in this world is because not all people can move forward with such optimism. There are always many people who live in the past, sad or happy, and many people live in it. In the illusory future, even if we want to firmly grasp the present, we are constantly experiencing all kinds of mistakes...Once we are more true to our destiny, destiny will teach us to be human, so we will lose all the hypocritical sorrows and joys of truth and falsehoods. There is only the word "alive" in this world. When a chick grows up, it becomes a goose; when a goose grows up, it becomes a sheep, and when a sheep grows up, it becomes a cow... There are always many possibilities in the future. Kind of, just like the yearning ignited in the heart at this moment, the words tapped by the fingertips, in the near or far future, may have been scattered into dust, even I can't remember it, but if I stick to it stupidly, It may also flow out a long river of thousands of scrolls, or it may accumulate an immortal medal.
The future is terrifying, and also looking forward to it.
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