Butterfly Effect, The Meanings

Submitted by: realitysuspension
Added: 2007-12-31 07:57:30     Rating:

I like this movie and it's about time travel. The main character can go back in time and change what happened in the present time. It happened when he had this kind of tumor in his head and I'm really not sure if that's where the title of the movie was taken based on the xray that looked like butterfly?

Anyway, the point is he keeps changing one thing and every time it has a bad consequence not just for him but for his loved ones as well. I like the ending that he just walk away from her girl once and for all for their sakes because maybe he thinks it just wasn't meant to be.

Then fast forward to the present they saw each other once again with a feeling of some odd familiarity fading to the music of oasis' stop cryin your heart out...

This movie is about decisions and consequences in life. It shows how you can't change your past without altering your present and future. Everything you do in life, all the happens defines you, and your future and people around you. I think it shows that destiny does have a role, cause no matter how much you want to do things your way and make it perfect, it's just not always possible. BTW, the movie has an alternative ending, and it is that Evan strangles himself with the umbilical cord when he is still in the womb....there's a reason why his mom keep miscarrying.....

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-01-22 01:42:08     Rating:

Evan (the main character) discovers that while certain memories of his are being prompted, he can go back in time and change what originally happened. Each time he changes an event in his past, his life and the lives of other people take a turn for the worse until eventually he travels back to before his birth and commits suicide in order to save and improve the lives of people he is close to.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-02-08 18:11:40     Rating:

The term "Butterfly Effect" references chaos theory and the fact that the smallest things can be interconnected in ways that we can't possibly imagine. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause enough shift in air and wind currents to cause a hurricane half a world away. Another good example is the story theme where someone goes back in time to the dinosaurs, steps on a bug, and when they get home to their own time things are vastly different than they remember.

This movie is a symbolism of the Chaos Theory. The title, The Butterfly Effect, comes from the most common example of the Chaos Theory that states that a single flap of a butterfly's wings in China could cause a change in weather in New York City. These subsequent events are often unpredictable and disastrous. The entire basis of this movie is centered around the idea that a single event or choice in your life can adversely effect your future and the lives of those around you. The only way to prevent a chaotic series of events is to stop the original event from ever happening, which is why both endings provided in the movie show Evan preventing a relationship or preventing himself ever being born.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-11-10 10:44:00     Rating:

Be grateful for the life that you've had, because it might have been the best of all possible worlds.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2009-06-11 23:51:55     Rating:

In the movie, a bunch o' sh*t happens to him as a child. I'm not ging to ruin surprises, but lets just say they involve a mental institution, a camera, and a creepy dad.

7 years later, he finds his old friend in their old neighborhood and they catch up. he reminds her of some bad memories, she runs off crying, he wakes up the next day hearing a message from her brother saying shes killed herself. this is when he attempts time travel. the title of the movie has absolutely nothing to do with time travel, its the overall theme.

He goes back to rectify one mistake and finds more than one thing out of place in his new life and makes more mistakes in turn. The reason this is happening is because as he keeps going back to fix more and more problems, more and more newer road blocks become apparent in the plot, when finally, the only way is to completely remove the person he is trying to save, from his life. he does this, and everything is fixed. this is because he went to the root of the problem.

The butterfly effect is "change one small thing and a giant catastrophe could happen next". the film also focuses on the theme of "Carpe Diem" or "live life to the fullest no matter what". If something goes wrong, make it into a positive.

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