statement: I only comment on the idea of the film, and do not introduce too much about the content, director, and actors of the film.
American movies are synonymous with entertainment in the eyes of cultural people, but there are also one or two works worth pondering from time to time, such as "Forrest Gump", "Dancing With Wolves", "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Exciting 1995" ”, “Pulp Fiction”, “The Matrix 1” and so on are all in-depth works. This year’s American blockbuster also has two very good works, that is, “Fahrenheit 911” and “The Butterfly Effect” which I will talk about.
This film did not have a high box office, although I don't know the director and actors of the film, but as far as the film is concerned, it is really a great work and worth watching.
Butterfly effect: A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest, with the occasional flap of its wings, could cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later.
The butterfly effect may be mysterious in terms of its content, and people may think it is too exaggerated, but as long as you think about our lives carefully, it is easy to find that there are many similar situations in our lives.
I can give an example, A’s decision to buy a fruit knife will trigger the butterfly effect. Let’s just assume: A few days later, A’s wife accidentally cut her own while cutting fruit. Right index finger (she is left-handed); a few months later, a robber broke into the house. When A was fighting with the robber, he used this fruit knife to stab the robber to death and protected himself; a few years later, A lost his job, and his wife was with him again Divorced, A was in a very sad mood. He couldn't think about it for a while, so he ended his life with this fruit knife; then his death would cause other chain reactions... Of course, the reality is much more complicated than my assumptions, more intricate. , and this fruit knife will have other encounters, maybe it will be broken before A loses his job, it is unknown.
Of course, the above examples are just my assumptions. There are also more or less shadows of the butterfly effect in other movies, but the expression is different. For example, in the famous British "Two Smoking Guns", the two The bongs do the same thing as the fruit knife in my example.
The crux of the matter is the contingency of choices and that each choice has a series of unpredictable effects that guide our actions. We should realize that each of our actions affects our own next move, as well as others around us, who in turn affect those around them. produce unimaginable consequences. So we are not only responsible for our own actions, but also responsible for others, even those in the future, because our predecessors have taken responsibility for us. By extension, we are also responsible to other creatures, to the earth, because we are the most intelligent species here. In fact, this is also the basic essence of Western existential philosophy. The so-called "existence precedes essence" means that what we do and our choices determine whether we are good or bad, and whether what we do is good or bad.
Sartre said: "Others are hell." In fact, this sentence can also be said, "Others is heaven." If Hitler's birth brought about a catastrophe of World War II, then the birth of Roosevelt, Churchill and others It is the salvation of this world. That is, Hitler is "hell", Roosevelt and Churchill are "heaven". In fact, this is a typical butterfly effect, but these three people are the elites of human beings; we ordinary people also have the butterfly effect, but the scope is smaller, and it will also affect many people. So we are not alone, we are one, and the actions of each one determine the fate of others, like the flapping of a butterfly.
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