The movie "A Thunderclap" is adapted from Bradley's short sci-fi novel: 2055, Chicago, the most famous travel agency in the city - "Time Travel" Co. The business is very hot and has become the most fashionable label in the downtown area. After time travel has become an exciting reality, a large number of adventurers are keen to return to the prehistoric era to hunt live dinosaurs in the form of tourism adventures. Led by the hunter guide Dr. Travis Leah (Edward Burns), every trip is carefully planned. The travel agency will first confirm that the dinosaur is about to die before sending the passengers to arrive, so as to avoid time and space differences. There are three travel protocols that must be followed: don't change anything from the past; don't leave anything behind; and most importantly, don't bring anything back. The inventor of time travel technology, genius physicist Dr. Sonia Rand (Katherine McCormock) has always been worried about the disastrous consequences of the use of this technology, but the company's president Charles Ha Tony (Ben Kingsley) ignores Rand's warnings in the face of rolling profits. After a recent trip to the Cretaceous period, no one noticed that the climate and even the environment were quietly changing. Leah, who was going home for a day off, woke up the next morning to find that potted flowers that had been withered for a long time were suddenly flourishing. Incredibly, at the same time, wild plants spread from the inside out and devoured the entire building in the block. The twisting roots of the plants pierced the crosswalk and overturned the car to the ground. The streets of Chicago seemed to change overnight. It has become an ancient tropical jungle, and terrified residents have abandoned their homes, but the streets are even more dangerous. In a panic, Leah traveled to Rand's house several times, because only Rand can figure out the cause of the cataclysm and make remedial measures. At Rand's suggestion, Leah and his surviving companions checked the data of the most recent trip, and the result shuddered: the time shuttle returned 1.5 times heavier than it started. 3 grams, someone must have brought something back, but what exactly? The most important thing is that if the things brought back can be put back in their original places, all the cataclysms will disappear now. Everyone's only hope is to find the two tourists who violated the travel protocol, and if they are still alive, they can find out why. The chain of cataclysmic reactions is expanding, and the out-of-control evolutionary situation spreads along the food chain, from low-level life forms to high-level life forms. Giant carnivorous insects like cockroaches and locusts have an amazing appetite and roam the city in groups. Some intelligent monitor lizard-like creatures began to hunt for food in an organized manner; winged creatures swooped down from the sky and ripped apart cars with ease, leaving humans nowhere to hide. It turns out that the dinosaurs, which were naturally eliminated 65 million years ago, did not become extinct. On the contrary, the population became increasingly proliferating and had more agile responses and amazing intelligence. Reptiles gradually dominated the earth, while the once master of all things. Humanity is being reduced to a poor meal on a plate. Leah, Rand and their surviving companions must race against time, traverse the ruins and muddy city streets, restart the time-space shuttle, and team up to return to the Cretaceous period to find out the source of the cataclysm and turn the evolutionary history of the earth. Go back to the right track and save yourself and the present of all mankind.
Butterfly, see butterfly again, is scientifically judged to be a butterfly that can bring huge effects to the world. In the movie, it is even more mysterious and unfathomable. "A single ripple in prehistory will stir up a huge wave in today's world." It seems to have become the iconic creature that caused the chaos of time and space. You must be very careful when you see this creature in the future, because if you are not careful, it may change your time sequence and cause causal disorder until it destroys everything you have... .. In fact, the creatures in the movie can be any kind of insects that existed in that era. The reason for choosing the butterfly is probably because of the theory that it triggered - the "butterfly effect", which makes it more convincing in the movie. And mysterious effects, and the film focuses on explaining that even the slightest change in the past can have an immeasurable impact on today, even a devastating disaster.
Changing the past to make the present better is an idea shared by many people, and it is also deeply and terrifyingly explained in the movie "The Butterfly Effect", and Hollywood filmmakers and directors seem to relish this view and prefer it. Plus, it has been expressed in many films and has become a gold mine worthy of continuous mining, such as the "Back to the Future" series, "Butterfly Effect" and sequels. Although the expression styles in these films are quite different, the core seems to be the same. The same, that is - to change the past is to destroy the present. Don't try to buy regret medicine, it will be worse than it is now. The director seems to be telling us to cherish the present, be responsible for life, and don't always imagine that everything can be repeated. Why is an idea that is very good in the mind of the individual portrayed as a disaster in the movie? I think, in addition to some positive and progressive reasons, is there a problem of interest, that is, when a point of view is exaggerated to the point of shocking the world, its value will increase with the attention, and the film needs is this effect.
As a sci-fi movie, there are still many exciting things in this film. For example, rich people can form a group to go hunting in the Cretaceous, the design of time waves, and the new-age creatures of baboon-faced Tyrannosaurus and bat-faced pterosaurs. . But one thing I'm confused about is that this hunting activity back in time follows the logic that the big dinosaur that was killed was about to die and was buried by a volcanic eruption, so kill it before it dies. It won't affect the development of anything. This idea is really strict, but the point is that since a volcanic eruption can bury everything the size of a dinosaur, can a butterfly not far from it escape? Similarly, since the energy of a butterfly's wings can make the creature evolve into a super-long salted octopus, the energy generated by a big dinosaur's life for even one minute is probably not less than the flickering energy of a butterfly for a lifetime! How can this be explained?
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