Can you love someone so much that you can sacrifice everything?

Laverne 2022-04-22 07:01:02

Many comments on this film are that the butterfly effect cannot stand up to scrutiny, illogical, etc. etc.

But I think this is a film that speaks of great love. The love of the


hero is deep and broad.

He not only loves the heroine, but also loves His mother, his friends, and even the overlord brother who loves the heroine who bullied him.

At first, he went back to the past hoping to change the heroine's life and not let him be abused by his father,

but he did not expect to deeply hurt her brother , As a result, he killed her brother with his own hands

and then went back. He hoped to save his dog and the heroine, but he still killed his brother and sent his friend to a mental hospital

. Once again, he sacrificed his hands. It seems that the heroine, Little friends, brothers got good results,

but they hurt his mother

, so he found out that it was all because of him.

Without him, everyone can get the ultimate happiness,


so he chose to go back to the beginning and end himself. All

is well, everyone is happy, only he sacrificed his

fatalistic point of view

everything is your fault, so why don't you die, why don't you die in the first place?


Although this view may be wrong

, how many people would sacrifice themselves to fulfill others when faced with such a situation?


I think, this is indeed the


first time I watched it on the plane to Los Angeles, I just thought how would it be good if I could go back in time and change the past

I even forgot the ending

but now I watch it again, I think , the ending is cruel but reasonable,

how much you pay, how much you get,

maybe your sacrifice, will really free everyone in

life. This is how you choose on the scale of pain...

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Extended Reading
  • German 2021-10-20 18:59:43

    Ten years later, I watched this movie with the girl again and I really understood it. The most critical point in the plot is actually the relationship between the hero and his dad. In the whole film, the male protagonist modifies the timeline to save the people around him, so why does his dad modify the timeline? The answer is at the end. Because the male protagonist’s stillbirth will definitely lead to fucking depression, smoking, and lung cancer. So his dad would go back to before his birth over and over again in order to save his mother, to revise the ending. But this will lead to a result: as long as the male protagonist is born, he will definitely encounter everything afterwards, and he will definitely modify the timeline like his father, and the final outcome must be that he strangles himself again-and this ending It will be revised again by his dad, and the cycle goes back and forth. Therefore, there is only one way to end this cycle: his dad no longer revises his stillborn ending and accepts this fact. Because he understood: the death of this son is inevitable, and any effort is useless, it will bring everything back to the original point. That's why the male lead father would say: You can't be God, child. This sentence is the title of the movie.

  • Amelia 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    I didn't understand it very well at first, and then I probably understood it was pretty good.

The Butterfly Effect quotes

  • [In his second college-age timeline, Evan realizes that he has to be unkind to the fraternity pledges, because other fraternity members are watching them]

    Evan: Give me the Greek alphabet. Give it to me! "Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh?" Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega, Sir! Maybe that's what it is!

  • [first lines]

    [reading aloud as he writes a note]

    Evan: If anyone finds this, it means my plan didn't work and I'm already dead. But if I can somehow go back to the beginning of all of this, I might be able to save her.