Analyzing The Movie 'The Butterfly Effect'
The Butterfly Effect
The movie I chose to analyze was The Butterfly Effect. In this film the main character is played by Ashton Kutcher. Ashton plays the role of a boy named Evan Treborn. In the movie Evan suffered his fair share of traumatic formative experiences. For example Evans father was institutionalized for almost killing him. There is a significant amount of abuse going on in the family of his two best friends. Also a prank goes horrifically wrong, and one of Evans best friends starts becoming increasingly unhinged. Throughout all this Evan only has the sketchiest impression of these events, thanks to the strange memory blackouts which regularly accompanied them. So, when he moved to a different town with his mother, Evans dim and troubled memories from his traumatic past seemed to be well …show more content…
At age twenty, however, seven years to the day after his blackouts ended, Evan finds his childhood journals and starts reading them. Evan soon discovers that by reading entries from his journals, he is able to transport himself back in time to those forgotten episodes from the times when he blacked out. Evan is determined to fix things in his rediscovered past so that he and his old friends can have happier lives. Evan soon learns the hard way that even the tiniest alteration to the past can have gravely unpredictable consequences for the present. Unfortunately, by changing the past, Evan creates a butterfly effect. A butterfly effect is a phenomenon in which small changes to the past events of various people’s lives result in massive, unexpected changes to the present day lives of those same people. It soon becomes an obsession for Evan. First trying to get his first love Kayleigh back, and then becoming consumed with the various
The movie I chose to analyze was The Butterfly Effect. In this film the main character is played by Ashton Kutcher. Ashton plays the role of a boy named Evan Treborn. In the movie Evan suffered his fair share of traumatic formative experiences. For example Evans father was institutionalized for almost killing him. There is a significant amount of abuse going on in the family of his two best friends. Also a prank goes horrifically wrong, and one of Evans best friends starts becoming increasingly unhinged. Throughout all this Evan only has the sketchiest impression of these events, thanks to the strange memory blackouts which regularly accompanied them. So, when he moved to a different town with his mother, Evans dim and troubled memories from his traumatic past seemed to be well …show more content…
At age twenty, however, seven years to the day after his blackouts ended, Evan finds his childhood journals and starts reading them. Evan soon discovers that by reading entries from his journals, he is able to transport himself back in time to those forgotten episodes from the times when he blacked out. Evan is determined to fix things in his rediscovered past so that he and his old friends can have happier lives. Evan soon learns the hard way that even the tiniest alteration to the past can have gravely unpredictable consequences for the present. Unfortunately, by changing the past, Evan creates a butterfly effect. A butterfly effect is a phenomenon in which small changes to the past events of various people’s lives result in massive, unexpected changes to the present day lives of those same people. It soon becomes an obsession for Evan. First trying to get his first love Kayleigh back, and then becoming consumed with the various