The Butterfly Effect

Tremaine 2022-04-19 09:01:05

Spent an afternoon reading it and writing something. At first I felt that the first story was in stark contrast to the tragic, smooth life of Ivan and the tragic life of my friend. There is no doubt that the male protagonist is a kind person. When he learned that he has the ability to go back to the past, he chose to "correct" and correct it again and again. He wanted to save everyone, but he didn't know that everything was wrong. It may be perfect. The most vivid reflection is that all his friends and the heroine's younger brother had a good home that time, and it was the hero and his mother who paid the price. It's like saving one person must be done with another. It's the same as exchanging people's whole lives... Changes over and over again make the originally depressing but dull life worse and worse. There are a lot of foreshadowings in the movie, the one that impressed me the most was the time he went to see his mother for a palmistry. "You don't have a lifeline," he was shocked to see this, his mother told him that she had had two children but both were stillborn. He didn't think about anything at the time, but at the end, I think he knew, maybe his two brothers or sisters, they all experienced similar things to the hero, and always thought that they could correct the mistakes of the past, After trying to change again and again, after changing the original life beyond recognition, they all come to their senses: maybe it is because of their existence that the "mistakes" occur, and the best way to make everything settle is not to try To correct the past, but to make it never happen. . .

If I had to choose, I would definitely choose the first ending, I would rather never come to this world and let everything not begin...

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The Butterfly Effect quotes

  • [upon discovering his armlessness]

    Evan: What the fuck is this?

  • Evan: I just thought that you should know.

    Kayleigh Miller: Know what?

    Evan: That you were happy once... with me.

    Kayleigh Miller: You know there's one major hole in your story, there is no fucking way on this planet, nor any other I would ever be in some fucking sorority.

    Evan: [Whispering] You were happy there...