However, what if there is really a regret medicine?
Then I will definitely make mistakes without any scruples, and then make up for the changes after making mistakes. It's just that I don't know what my life will be like after this road has been patched up!
In the movie Butterfly Effect, I saw a kid, a kid in trouble who found his regret medicine. He followed the records in the diary over and over to go back to a certain point in time in the past, trying his best to mend this imperfect real world. But he didn't know that the world was closely related, and that a little change in the past would affect the fate and experience of many people.
They are all just helpless children. In the face of the powerful external world, they will make mistakes, but when the terrifying strong adults destroy their lives, they have no choice but to bear it. They have their own beloved ones, and they always make their own choices because of the nostalgia of their loved ones. When her parents divorced, Kelly could choose to live with her mother without having to endure the torture of her perverted father, but she found that she liked Kevin so much that she would never see him without her mother. Kelly's skinny brother also wanted to protect his dear sister and chose to endure his father, but when he saw the love between his sister and Evan, he became irritable, and he forced his partner Lanny to throw a detonator from his father's basement. to the family's mailbox. Disastrously, the hostess of the house was blown up while carrying the little baby to fetch the letters. Lanny was frightened to the point of dementia, but Evan's memory was blank. His mother took him out of the town, but the miserable lives of Kelly and his brother remained the same. Seven years later, Ai, who was studying psychology at the university, recalled the dusty past when he read his diary. He returned to his hometown to find Kelly. Unexpectedly, Kelly, who had been struggling at the bottom, couldn't bear the distance from him and committed suicide.
In order to save Kelly, Evan begins to read his diary over and over again, traveling back and forth through time and space, back to the point of the catastrophic events in the past, and those memories that may have been consciously forgotten due to fear at the time begin to become clear. Now he acts again as a sane adult, but each change changes his own life and the trajectory of those around him. He was not willing to lose the puppy, nor could his friend Lanny be imprisoned because of himself. The most unbearable thing was Kelly's sadness and despair. He shuttled between the university dormitory, prison, mental hospital and those important moments in childhood. Finally found a relatively peaceful change at the expense of his healthy body. Even though Kelly is now in love with Lenny, he decides to accept it, as long as they are happy. However, what makes him unacceptable is that his mother who has always loved him and protected him is in danger of contracting lung cancer because of his injury and despair. This time, he decides to do it desperately for one last attempt, using home video to evoke memories back to the point in time when he and Kelly first met, using vicious threats to drive away the little Kelly who likes him.
As a result, everyone's fate has been changed. Kelly and her brother went to live with their mother, away from their pedophile father. And Kevin and Evan also grew up safely. On the crowded street, Kevin and Kelly passed by, he missed his love with Kelly, but he finally succeeded in protecting her life, as well as Lenny and Kelly's brother Tommy and the tender loving kindness mother's life.
After watching this movie, I was stunned for a long time. Maybe the growth of an individual person or the development of the entire human society is a process of constantly making mistakes and constantly changing and making up for it, but we don’t know that every make-up may be took us in the other direction. We can't predict the ultimate consequences of our small choices or mistakes, so we stumble along, barely realizing that we've drifted further away from the id we started from.
Sometimes, we may suddenly stop what we are doing, and imagine what would our life be like if we had chosen another path and done another thing? It seems that there is always another me living at another point in time, living a different life from the present in a different image. So, who am I for real? Just like Zhuangzi once wondered: Did I transform into a butterfly or did I transform into a butterfly?
Artists and writers in human society seem to have been trying to remind us that there is another kind of life possible. They re-arranged their memories in stories, pictures, and movies, and made corrections to the mistakes they had made. In fact, each of us has such a sew-up ability. In our memories and our dreams, there are always some images of deja vu intricately overlapping, and in every fold of time, there is another possibility happening.
Evan in the movie suffered a lot of setbacks to realize this butterfly effect between people, but luckily, he finally managed to achieve some kind of balance at the expense of his own love. And Evan has also completed his evolution from savage to civilization: from a bearded image into a handsome young man with only a mustache to a disabled person who has lost both limbs and hands to wearing a tie A successful psychiatrist in a sleek suit. But how will human society develop? Isn't our evolution and development based on one destruction of the natural world after another? Now, we seem to have embarked on a road of no return. Can human beings also write off all the mistakes we have committed and return to the original starting point of life? It seems that art and religion have been trying to awaken our conscience, make us realize our faults and try our best to repent to make up for it, but now, God is dead, and art is also keeping us short-sighted and superficial human beings, in the disaster. Who else waits patiently with open arms for us? Is it Nuwa? Will she still be able to make up the sky again? No, maybe she can only love us and accompany us like Evan's mother, and save everything, we humans have to work hard like Evan step by step!
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