Same capability, different efficiency

Tyler 2022-03-21 09:02:55

Let’s talk about the conclusion first: The male protagonist’s ability to travel through the trilogy is probably at the bottom of the trilogy, but he is too ideal in the use of abilities.

This is a typical example of the generalization of the time-travel ability in the first "Butterfly Effect" series. It is conceivable that if the fourth part appears later, there may be more heroic/villain users of the time-travel ability, rather than the like In the first and second parts, in order to make up for a shortcoming of the constant crossing, it was self-defeating and finally had no choice but to choose to let go of the quagmire trend. (However, this generalization will gradually lose the meaning of the butterfly effect.)

At the beginning of the film, the protagonist travels to a scene that does not seem to have much to do with him, watching a brutal murder, and then returns to reality to help the police identify the murderer.

The seemingly simple plot actually almost completely downplays the huge impact of the first protagonist's amnesia on life in The Butterfly Effect!

Just imagine, the original male protagonist was walking on the road well, but suddenly his body was snatched away by the male protagonist. He quickly rushed to hide near the scene of the incident. After witnessing a murder, the male protagonist returned with satisfaction, while the original male protagonist returned. The Lord found himself at the scene of the murder all of a sudden, and then he might be taken away by the police for questioning, but he could only say: uh, I have amnesia, I don't know why I'm here, and I don't know how it happened, but you give me In one day, I will go to solve the case and show you...

It's hard to understand how many times this kind of thing has to be repeated to convince the police that this is the "spell" of a strange wizard, and to make the police pay the protagonist a salary.

PS: There seems to be a wide-ranging statement that this time the male protagonist can wear clothes? Does it mean that the male protagonist travels to the past with his body in the bathtub? Where did the clothes and pants come from? You can wear it, why do you need ice cubes and sister care? Every time you cross, there will be one more male protagonist, and two male protagonists are allowed to exist in one world at the same time? Or did the male protagonist pass through the past and the original male protagonist disappeared on the spot? Isn't it too sloppy...

In my opinion, in fact, the ability of the third male protagonist to traverse is lower than that of the other male protagonists. It just happens that because the protagonists of the other two films are not as accurate, the male protagonist can rely on the accurate time and any photos at that time to travel.

The convenient place is that you can go to places that have nothing to do with yourself at that time, and realize the work of the male protagonist "Wizard".

The inconvenience lies in the lack of accurate knowledge of the world that has traveled through the past. As a result, no matter how the male protagonist's sister follows the male protagonist to cross and travel freely, the male protagonist does not know anything; and it brings great risks to the male protagonist himself, such as hiding in the closet and being discovered, forcibly breaking into the hiding place and being arrested. Police arrests, foot traps cannot escape, and so on.

Let's talk about the male protagonist's endless criminal behavior: breaking into the house, breaking in illegally, the sudden disappearance of key witnesses (although he did not actually do it, but he is very suspicious), if there is no sister to cover the male protagonist every time, find a lawyer , It is estimated that the male protagonist will be imprisoned many times, and the chrysanthemum has been repeatedly developed.

In the long run, it is almost logical for the protagonist to be silenced by the murderer or put in prison during a voyeur on the scene of a crime (so is it really a kind of protection for the sister to follow the male protagonist?)

In this regard, the efficiency of the younger sister is amazing. She will never be discovered through killing and following her brother, and she can maintain a normal life and even give false testimony to the male protagonist, quickly kidnap the male protagonist's teacher, and silence witnesses. It's a hell of a difference!

Moreover, the male protagonist's sister's transmigration ability seems to be higher than that of the male protagonist, at least the memory coverage ability is higher than that of the male protagonist. Because the male protagonist's first love was killed by his sister, and his sister was saved by the male protagonist, so the order here is: male protagonist crossing >> saving sister >> sister crossing >> killing first love, but the male protagonist has no impression of him The first love was originally supposed to be alive, and the memories of the real hammer sister's crossing are overlaid on the male protagonist...

At the same time, except for the male protagonist of the first film, it seems that the protagonists of the other films do not have a clear memory coverage phenomenon. The protagonist of the second film does not know what his good life is in exchange for, and the protagonist of the third film is even more I don't know anything, even the files can be different! The ignorant wave is full of pictures. After waking up, he can only ask around, all because he has a better relationship with the black police. This foolishness is no one.

Let's take a look at the suspenseful part. It's really good that the sister can also cross this stalk, and the purpose of killing is to occupy the brother. It's also very dramatic, but it's actually quite easy to guess. No change, too deliberate.

It is the fire that needs to be analyzed.

In that fire, the parents will die, the younger sister will die, the daughter of the male protagonist will not exist, and there will be no fertilized eggs! At that time, the male protagonist was only 15 years old, how could he have a daughter? It's too early!

Then the most likely answer is about to come out. It is the future male protagonist who was not filmed in the movie. As for the reason, the weird smile of the daughter at the end probably explains everything. Obviously, the male protagonist's daughter, like the male protagonist's sister, will use the transmigration ability to act recklessly. The male protagonist can only choose to go back to the beginning and kill himself to end everything. As for whether these two girls are the same person, according to the setting of the butterfly effect, they shouldn't. After all, taking a house is too bad. As for why these two girls have the same evil nature, heredity is very likely.

There is no direct evidence that the daughter's evil nature also likes the male protagonist, don't take it for granted. Maybe the women in this family have terrible paranoia and possessiveness. Maybe it's because she repeatedly travels to kidnap her future boyfriend, or she wants to kill her father who won't let her travel through, or it may be because she keeps trying to achieve the ideal life result through time travel, which leads to a mess. There are many possible conclusions, anyway, the director is just In order to show the evil nature of the transmigrators.

In fact, the happy ending at the end is just an ending destined to be covered.

The real ending is that the future male protagonist finally discovers the terrifying consequences of the abuse of his ability to traverse, and he has no way to control his daughter (he is really too weak, and he doesn't pay attention to his own safety at all, the whole scene is full of waves), so he desperately wants to return. On the day of the fire, he chose to set himself on fire or burn his entire family to death. (My sister has the ability to travel, and maybe my father and mother also have it. Even if they don’t, they will give birth to a child with the ability to travel, so I am afraid that only by burning them all to death can one hundred.)

This can also explain why the parents escaped so easily at the end but were burned to death in other worlds, because in fact the elder brother will prevent them all from escaping instead of just stopping the younger sister; why the younger sister keeps asking about the truth of the fire, because She has no way to travel to the world where she died, but to the two worlds where her brother saves her and her brother harms him. She is very chaotic (this chaos can also be seen as a source of her obsession with her brother); male The Lord really doesn't know the truth of the fire, because only the last male protagonist who insisted on committing suicide can cover everything. He is just a certain male protagonist during the period. Even if he successfully crosses the fire, he will be covered by the last male protagonist. Set fire to it and end it all.

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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mother in the Park: Alright, Josh. Time to go.

  • Sam Reide: Thanks, Goldburg, you're brilliant.

    Harry Goldburg: Brilliant. Yeah, okay. Thought you were gonna say "sexy." But hey, that's okay. No problem. Still gonna have a good day.