The Butterfly Effect
Im traumatised… I just saw a baby still in side its mom’s tummy, kill himself by strangling on the umbilical cord.
Aston Kutcher in the movie, kept on going back to the past to rectify everything which would have an impact on his present.
This created a series of alternate present worlds for him.
The first is where he and his childhood sweetheart Kayli are abused by her father, his other friend Lenny unintentionally commits murder, and Tommy is particularly abusive as well. 13 years later…we are shown the consequences of it..
Then one day he discovers that he is able to somehow go back to a moment in time, a moment which was defining enough to drastically change the future.
It all digressed from there, cos each time someone didnt turn out so well he kept going back to try to make it all right. It came to the point where the only solution was that he did not exist.
Hence, baby killing itself. Good Gosh. I dun know if I will ever get over that one. But hey…everybody else lived happily ever after.
I just dun understand a few things about the story.
I dont know whether the cause for his blackouts were because he would return from the future to those instances or just coincidental.
Or wait… there was the time his dad tried to strangle him and it really was a consequence of his returning to the past to that moment. etc etc etc
Twas a nice, interesting movie which raises interesting questions.. but its flaws and big gaping holes were just too glaring.
The movie’s site (www.butterflyeffectmovie.com) posted some chaos theory and even invites visitors to send in their idea of chaos.
Here’s just one entry.
The butterfly effect describes infinite realities all with equal amounts of energy to account for such a process. Thus the total energy must be equal to zero (truth) therefore all else is a fraction of the zero (truth).
Each of these fractions describes a line in the total energy of the system. As humans we only have a limited number of variables (options) that govern which way the line may go. Positive (+) means real and negative (-) means imaginary.
Since there are a limited number of positive (+) variables (options) the total energy will take a shape on the whole, thus making deterministic chaos possible. Within all chaos there is a pattern to observe however slight, i.e., the vein distances and formation in your brain fully governs your personality (thought patterns), which made you the line you are today.
To observe the pattern you must know all of the (truths) fractions (each contain variables) of the total energy. Unfortunately this is not possible unless you are the total energy itself.
What you can observe is a river of fractions with the size of the river depending on the amount of (truths) fractions you know. And even seeing a river indicates you’re not part of the river locally.
Thus what you think may happen, and what you think may not happen, all while something else governs all of the maybes. For some, all we have is free thinking. Unfortunately with wisdom comes sorrow and with ignorance comes bliss.
–Victor A. Lopez, Houston Tx.
