If it wasn't for someone to watch with me, I think I would have run away halfway. As for the one who watched the movie with me, she bit her lip and frowned, so she probably couldn't hold it any longer. But in the end, it is still a victory.
In fact, the film has four endings, which can be roughly divided into two categories: the director's version and the release version. We watched the release ending, which is the brighter one (so we didn't lose sleep at night). After Evan made the past worse and worse, he finally decided to go back to the moment when he first met Kelly, and added bad words to Kelly, so that Kelly would not fall in love with him and avoid many subsequent damages. But in fact, the ending of the director's version is that after Evan made the past worse and worse, he had to end it all, so he returned to the second he was born, killed himself with his own hands, and made everything in the future no longer. occur.
Of course, the director's version of the ending undoubtedly more perfectly reflects the entire theme of the film. All the efforts Evan made before, constantly changing the past, changing the things he did wrong, but without exception, made the reality fall into a worse situation, which can be summed up in one sentence, that is, his father, Jason, who is regarded as a lunatic. A word to him: "Don't play God." - Don't play God. What a harsh lesson this is! That's why my father jumped up and tried to strangle Evan: "He has to die, that's the only way." Why does every revision of Evan's past lead to a nightmare in the life of at least one of the four playmates? This is actually a balance, a kind of fairness. Bad luck always has to be imposed on someone, it's not the innocent mother and daughter, it's Kelly, it's not Kelly, it's Tommy, it's not Tommy, it's Lanny... So no matter how you look at it, it's impossible for everyone to have a happy ending in the release version. occurring. Evan's motivation to change the past is to wash away his bad luck and save Kelly's life, which was passed on from the beginning, not modified. So intellectually I enthusiastically embrace the director's ending, but emotionally, in terms of soothing my heart that was stimulated throughout the film, I would happily accept the screening's ending. But if there was an extra 55 seconds of Evan and Kelly recognizing (the fourth version), I would have thrown it away without hesitation.
So think about how fair our real world is at this point. Who has no desire to change the past? The good thing is that no one can implement it. Equal treatment of the law of reality is actually a guarantee of everyone's interests. What did Leibniz say? —The real world is the most perfect of all possible worlds. There must be some truth to this statement.
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