The Butterfly Effect, A review
Usually, I take watching movies, I as leave-your-brain-behind-relax-and-zone-out-time. Probably due to the fact that movies these days are PREDICTABLE BORING and all in all, UN-MENTALLY STIMULATING.
So it is absolutely fantastic when a really good movie comes along. The Butterfly Effect is one such movie. I've read quite contrasting review about it, and it seems that all my psychologist friends were raving about it.
Of course I had to watch it. Controversial stuff fascinates me. Watched it with Aaron the psychologist and Sofia the scientist, physicist to be exact.
Hmm. What can I say about this movie. I found certain scenes really disturbing and, well, this is not your average feel-good movie. How does tying a dog up in a sack, saturating it with kerosene and setting a match to it sound? How about putting a dynamite in a mailbox then stand watching while a mother and her baby go to collect the mail. Gothic sex? One child murdering another? Child porn?
But that is not the only way the movie disturbed me. I suppose I should give a brief run-down about it first. The concept of the movie is that if you could go back in time, and change just one thing, how different would your life be? Yes, this is a love story (what's new) and all the main character wants to do is for him and the girl of his dreams to be happy together. (or at least for her to be happy. Awww.) But there are 2 things that don't really help. First of all, he has memory loss in little snippets and has no recollection of things that had happened for a few minutes. That leaves him very confused cause he often then finds himself in wierd situations, and cannot explain himself. So he is advised to keep a journal, to try to help him remember. Also, he has very screwed-up friends. Seriously.
One fine day, 'his' girl kills herself cause of something he said and something that had happened in the past. Then he finds that when he reads his journals, he can go back into the past. So, knowing the future, he tries to change something. But this is a case of Whatever Can Go Wrong WILL Go Wrong. Time after time, he finds himself in quite a pickle and hurries back to the past to change something.
The end is the most disturbing / annoying. A fortune teller /palm reader tells him he has no life line. He has no soul.
So he figures that the only way for everyone to be happy and for everything to be alright, is for him never to exist, never be born.
Go watch it.
Makes you debate and talk about it for ages. I was very very annoyed with the movie (how in the world can you get annoyed with a movie??) and the three of us were discussing the movie late into the night.
GAH.
So it is absolutely fantastic when a really good movie comes along. The Butterfly Effect is one such movie. I've read quite contrasting review about it, and it seems that all my psychologist friends were raving about it.
Of course I had to watch it. Controversial stuff fascinates me. Watched it with Aaron the psychologist and Sofia the scientist, physicist to be exact.
Hmm. What can I say about this movie. I found certain scenes really disturbing and, well, this is not your average feel-good movie. How does tying a dog up in a sack, saturating it with kerosene and setting a match to it sound? How about putting a dynamite in a mailbox then stand watching while a mother and her baby go to collect the mail. Gothic sex? One child murdering another? Child porn?
But that is not the only way the movie disturbed me. I suppose I should give a brief run-down about it first. The concept of the movie is that if you could go back in time, and change just one thing, how different would your life be? Yes, this is a love story (what's new) and all the main character wants to do is for him and the girl of his dreams to be happy together. (or at least for her to be happy. Awww.) But there are 2 things that don't really help. First of all, he has memory loss in little snippets and has no recollection of things that had happened for a few minutes. That leaves him very confused cause he often then finds himself in wierd situations, and cannot explain himself. So he is advised to keep a journal, to try to help him remember. Also, he has very screwed-up friends. Seriously.
One fine day, 'his' girl kills herself cause of something he said and something that had happened in the past. Then he finds that when he reads his journals, he can go back into the past. So, knowing the future, he tries to change something. But this is a case of Whatever Can Go Wrong WILL Go Wrong. Time after time, he finds himself in quite a pickle and hurries back to the past to change something.
The end is the most disturbing / annoying. A fortune teller /palm reader tells him he has no life line. He has no soul.
So he figures that the only way for everyone to be happy and for everything to be alright, is for him never to exist, never be born.
Go watch it.
Makes you debate and talk about it for ages. I was very very annoyed with the movie (how in the world can you get annoyed with a movie??) and the three of us were discussing the movie late into the night.
GAH.
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