The Butterfly Effect
Ben Oakley
Project #1
Movie Review
Seven Ideas
2/22/20102
The Butterfly Effect
In “The Butterfly Effect” the main character Evan (played by Ashton Kutcher) has blackouts fairly often and he is instructed by his doctor to keep a journal of events so he can remember them if his mind does happen to go blank. When Evan is a young boy and the blackouts start the first one we are shown as the viewers is when he goes to visit his father in prison. Evan and his father get into an argument in the visiting cell and all of the sudden Evan blacks out and wakes up to his father choking him, saying “he must die, it’s the only way”, hinting that he knows something of Evan’s supernatural ability, what the “future” is to hold for the young boy, …show more content…
Tommy is a troubled youth and in the next scene he coaxes his friend Lenny to put a stick of dynamite in one of the neighbor’s mail boxes. The stick of dynamite does not explode for a decent period of time and when the owner and her baby pull into the driveway and go to check the mail Evan blacks out again. When he comes to they are dragging Lenny through the woods and Evan is oblivious to what just happened. Evan, Lenny and Kayleigh are strolling through the woods in the next scene and they stumble upon Tommy who has tied Evan’s dog in a bag and poured lighter fluid on it. In an attempt to free his dog Tommy “accidently” hits his sister Kayleigh in the face with a 4x4 and becomes enraged at Evan, beats him to the ground and he blacks out once again. When Evan comes to Kayleigh is sitting next to him crying and his dog is in front of them in a pile of ashes. Next, the story jumps ahead 7 years and Evan is attending a university, …show more content…
During his first flashback while “journal jumping” Evan has no idea what is going on and does nothing to change the outcome, therefore coming to back in the same situation when he started reading. Once he realizes what had actually happened he reads the journal pertaining to the mother and baby getting blown up at their mailbox and when he drops a cigarette on his shirt in the past and still has the burn mark in the present he is awestruck by the fact that he can actually change things. After realizing this fact, Evan jumps back to a scene where Tommy’s father is videotaping him and Kayleigh in some type of sick child pornography film. Evan sets the record straight with her father and when he wakes up him and Kayleigh are in the same bed together and his whole life has changed by tampering with that one moment in the past. Now that Evan and Kayleigh are dating, Tommy (her brother) is very upset at this fact and he comes after Evan trashing his car and trying to kill him. When the two do meet up and Tommy tries to kill Evan the opposite happens and Evan is thrown in jail for killing Tommy. Once in
Project #1
Movie Review
Seven Ideas
2/22/20102
The Butterfly Effect
In “The Butterfly Effect” the main character Evan (played by Ashton Kutcher) has blackouts fairly often and he is instructed by his doctor to keep a journal of events so he can remember them if his mind does happen to go blank. When Evan is a young boy and the blackouts start the first one we are shown as the viewers is when he goes to visit his father in prison. Evan and his father get into an argument in the visiting cell and all of the sudden Evan blacks out and wakes up to his father choking him, saying “he must die, it’s the only way”, hinting that he knows something of Evan’s supernatural ability, what the “future” is to hold for the young boy, …show more content…
Tommy is a troubled youth and in the next scene he coaxes his friend Lenny to put a stick of dynamite in one of the neighbor’s mail boxes. The stick of dynamite does not explode for a decent period of time and when the owner and her baby pull into the driveway and go to check the mail Evan blacks out again. When he comes to they are dragging Lenny through the woods and Evan is oblivious to what just happened. Evan, Lenny and Kayleigh are strolling through the woods in the next scene and they stumble upon Tommy who has tied Evan’s dog in a bag and poured lighter fluid on it. In an attempt to free his dog Tommy “accidently” hits his sister Kayleigh in the face with a 4x4 and becomes enraged at Evan, beats him to the ground and he blacks out once again. When Evan comes to Kayleigh is sitting next to him crying and his dog is in front of them in a pile of ashes. Next, the story jumps ahead 7 years and Evan is attending a university, …show more content…
During his first flashback while “journal jumping” Evan has no idea what is going on and does nothing to change the outcome, therefore coming to back in the same situation when he started reading. Once he realizes what had actually happened he reads the journal pertaining to the mother and baby getting blown up at their mailbox and when he drops a cigarette on his shirt in the past and still has the burn mark in the present he is awestruck by the fact that he can actually change things. After realizing this fact, Evan jumps back to a scene where Tommy’s father is videotaping him and Kayleigh in some type of sick child pornography film. Evan sets the record straight with her father and when he wakes up him and Kayleigh are in the same bed together and his whole life has changed by tampering with that one moment in the past. Now that Evan and Kayleigh are dating, Tommy (her brother) is very upset at this fact and he comes after Evan trashing his car and trying to kill him. When the two do meet up and Tommy tries to kill Evan the opposite happens and Evan is thrown in jail for killing Tommy. Once in