When Evan was already a student in the Department of Psychology at State University, a chance reading through his childhood diary made him subconsciously return to the scene that he couldn't even think of at first. The unbelievable experiences in his childhood made him Go back to the small town where you used to live. Laney became a little autistic, full of model airplanes, reciting the words Tommy had said when he threatened him. And Kelly committed suicide the night Evan visited her. Before parting, she said: "If you really think I'm so perfect, why didn't you contact me? Just leave me here to rot." Kelly, who was only in her early twenties, looked a little old.
After Kelly died, he began to try to change the unacceptable ending in front of him. Just like the meaning of the sentence that appeared on the screen at the beginning of the film: even as light as the wings of a butterfly, it can cause a hurricane thousands of miles away. Every small change Evan makes sends everyone's life on a very different trajectory. But things got worse and worse, the desperate pain never went away, and someone had to pay dearly for the changes he made, even his mother. His dad told him: You can't change someone without destroying them. But Evan was stubborn and extreme and believed that he could change the fate of everyone. He said: I will send you a postcard when everything is fine.
Once, I had a dream that I killed someone, the whole world was waiting to see me shot, I hid under the bed at home and cried with fear... I woke up from the dream, I looked at the window of my room and breathed a sigh of relief , thankfully it was just a dream. The despair in the dream made me sigh for days at a time about the beauty of the world. However, Evan's nightmare is a vicious cycle. After waking up, the world makes him despair again and again. The methods he takes are more and more extreme, and his eyes are more and more like Tommy. When the film starts When the scene of Evan staggering down the hallway in his robe and running to the room where the home video was kept, I realized that he was already a lunatic.
In the end, he went back to the very beginning of everything, strangling himself with his mother's umbilical cord before the start of this horrific cycle. The whole movie is like a dream, with shaky footage, repeated images, and screams after another. After the movie, I broke out in a cold sweat as if I had a nightmare.
This is a desperate movie. At the end of the story, Evan disappeared forever in this space where he did not belong, but no one who has watched this movie can deny the powerful shock that Evan's character brings to us: his kindness and persistence, his Madness and collapse. The director turned a nightmare into a flesh-and-blood story in front of us, and Evan is like us in a dream, hopeless and powerless. However, there is no better ending than this. Evan ended the existence that he should not have, and ended the cruel fate of everyone. Everything became normal and beautiful because of his sacrifice.
Life is not like this, some people are happy, and some people have to suffer. No matter how many times you start over, there will never be a big reunion ahead.
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