But, on closer inspection, they reflect a certain difference between Easterners and Westerners.
Chiyoko spent her whole life pursuing only a shadow of love, but she did not regret her futile pursuit. Ashton Kutcher burns his diary after his quest for happiness fails and ultimately chooses to escape life's imperfections.
One is to hold on to the belief "in the end, it will be difficult to calm down", and the other is to give up the ideal "ashes and ashes".
Some people on the Internet said that after watching "Millennium Actress", they always felt that the plot was different from what they envisioned. After watching the ending, there is a particularly depressing feeling. The ending of "The Butterfly Effect" gives people a sense of tragic and solemnity. This is a tragic abandonment.
The liberal style of Westerners can often bring people this "tragic abandonment". However, the tragic and solemn is short-lived, and the sense of emptiness and meaninglessness behind the tragic and solemn often becomes the maggots that live in people's hearts. It seems to have a special attraction to people. It arises from human beings' lack of awareness of their own flesh, and ends in indifference to forgetting and destruction—intentionally forgetting in destruction, and inadvertently forgetting in forgetting destroy.
However, it's not just the turrets that have been wiped out. No wonder people feel that "Millennium Actress" doesn't seem to have a real ending, while "Butterfly Effect" has completely ended -- what Kutcher burns down is his own memory, the ideal of a teenager, and a new experience. living life itself.
This is betrayal - betrayal of love, betrayal of ideals, betrayal of all spiritual values. In fact, all betrayals follow the same logic----succumb to the cowardice in their hearts and dare not face their inner beliefs. Amir in "The Kite Runner" looks down on the endless stream of cars on the American highway, and suddenly feels how comfortable it is to be in the fast-moving American society; Jaromil in "Living Elsewhere" denounced himself friend, and finally died in cowardly torment.
Westerners have a history of "repression of belief" that Easterners do not have. However, when Westerners' passion for belief gradually cooled and their eyes were drawn back from heaven to the world, they suddenly discovered that human beings are just a limited and ugly body that will be thrown into the void of history sooner or later. Once the feeling of ashes is established, the pursuit of spiritual value immediately becomes an illusory yearning for the immortality of the body. Although Chiyoko's body in "Millennium Actress" is dead, she is still chasing her true love in another world; although Evan in "The Butterfly Effect" finally gets rid of the fetters of memory and allows the body to move freely, he The fire of the soul is extinguished forever.
On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" shows another possibility after giving up faith—the double damage of the spirit and the body. The ghosts of the theatre have unearthed little-known secret passages, built splendid palaces, and even composed exquisite statues and music - but all this is but a man with a shrunken soul rebels against his own physical defects: The more you truly feel the harm caused by the imperfection of your body, the more maddened you are in pursuit of body immortality. Christine simply provided him with a path to heaven in his imagination - by envisioning his student (Christine) as the perfect artwork he had created and possessing it, he was freed from the confines of his body And into immortality-----of course at the expense of the happiness of others. The final outcome proves how the fall of spiritual values can lead to a more complete ashes.
Of course, the liberal ending of "The Butterfly Effect" is not exactly the same as the aesthetic ending of "The Phantom of the Opera", but what they lack in common is the eternal sing-along of "The End of the World" in "Millennium Actress". The scene of Chiyoko flying up on a rocket seems absurd, but it is exactly what Shestov said in the century's declaration: it is only absurd, so it is believable.
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