Butterflies have never been in this world

Alessia 2022-03-19 09:01:02

Some people’s childhood is unbearable. Although the scene at that time has gradually blurred, the rainy low-pressure cloud has been accumulated in a certain corner of the line of sight, touching the scene, or embarrassing in the middle of the night. For example, Evan, the male protagonist in "Butterfly Effect", has a series of bad childhood memories, forcing him to strongly want to take the aircraft of time, return to the painful experiences recorded in the diary, and try to travel clockwise on the river of time. A section of heavy silt was smoothed out. This kind of life is a soft eraser, and the unsatisfactory mistakes can be changed at will, until the handwriting is confused and the paper is torn.

Having a special function that can repair one's life is one of the most valued parts of countless childhood dreams. It is because of apologizing in the heart that you want to cross time and space to save the regrets that you regret now. I hope to go back to some morning in 1988, admit a glass of spilled milk, return to the street where the kapok fell, chase a bus that I missed several times, and return to a noisy bar three days ago. , I lost my first mobile phone there, it was a birthday present. I must be a stride meteor, hurriedly moving. According to the law of time in "Big Fish" directed by Tim Burton, if you stop and replay a certain part of the time, the future time will move forward at several times the speed. The world is so fair that it makes people feel discouraged. I don't want to omit the unknown life like this at a glance. Maybe this process is also quietly ambushing instability and mistakes.

"Butterfly Effect" provides a series of indefinite multiple-choice questions without clear answers. Every time you change your mind, it will bring another unexpected ending. Evan's subsequent life also resulted in random reactions in this right or wrong choice. He prevented an explosion, but lost a pair of strong arms, he saved the life of a dog, but let a good friend die. He has been in prison, wandering through the waves, sometimes flies up and down, and sometimes defeated. Originally I just wanted to clean an inconspicuous little stain in my childhood memory, but it seemed like a man was killed by mistake. The white shirt was stained with blood, and the soles of the shoes were smeared for half of the scene. Before I left, I closed the door and left a bloody fingerprint. It's on the lock. The horror of the thriller is sometimes faint, a gust of wind blows through, and a faint green phosphorescence under the eyes appears, and sometimes it is wave after wave of turbulent, not waking up from the last nightmare, and being pushed into another more. The dark and gloomy place. Evan's hands were trembling, and the words in the diary were trembling, like the wings of a butterfly flapping before taking off. I know that the experience of traveling through time and space is like a train driving into a tunnel, and the heavy tinnitus makes the whole body lose balance.

Usually this kind of tricks of jumping in time and space are for a relationship that has passed away and cannot be recovered. Evan is no exception. The childhood playmate named Kelly slowly emerges from the team of strangers. Her fate has become the most bizarre in the entire movie, sometimes the sorrowful sweetness of the literary film, and sometimes the vulgar and exaggerated love of the "American Pie". Even more deadly, her degeneration and destruction came from Evan's gentle finger shaking. Kelly is passive. Since childhood, she has been a background material for all events in Evan, a timid witness. No matter how many choices Evan makes repeatedly, Kelly's results are not very beautiful. It turns out that the childhood shadow that Evan has always wanted to clean is this girl named Kelly. When everything returned to calm, they returned to the same place where the two of them first met. This time, Evan chose to escape and pass by.

It seems that this movie can end at the end of any paragraph. Its incompleteness seems to be taken for granted. I will choose the same mental hospital as the beginning of the film to represent the end of the film. Evan hides under the desk of the attending doctor’s office and stubbornly writes a daydream patient's nonsense. There is a lot of noise and shouts outside the door. The world is completely crazy. "Butterfly Effect" has become a kind-hearted life review of a mental patient. He is unable to determine the confusion between what has happened and his imagination. The butterfly he wanted has not been in his world at all.

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Extended Reading
  • Estevan 2022-03-23 09:01:05

    The actor goes back to the past time and time again to try to change the ending, but the ending is always full of regrets. This makes me feel that what is destined to be faced with relief. Everything is impossible to be satisfactory, we must live in the moment.

  • Neil 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Under the name of Chaos Theory "The Butterfly Effect", the screenwriter and director first made the film shrouded in the horror of childhood shadows, and then the protagonist tried to change the past and caused even more terrible events, to aggravate the horror effect and horror of the film. atmosphere. This exaggerated and ingenious handling makes this film different from previous films about amnesia. The horror effect it brings is not the torture of the search process like "Amnesia", nor the pain of finding the result like "The Dining Table for Four". Instead, it uses people's attempts to change the psychology of the past to make the horror go deeper again and again. "

The Butterfly Effect quotes

  • Evan: Where's Kayleigh?

    Lenny: Who's Kayleigh?

    [Evan looks confused]

    Lenny: You want me to take you to the doctor?

    Evan: No, I think everything's gonna be all right this time.

  • Title Card: It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. - Chaos Theory