11 December 2004
1:25 PM
The Butterfly Effect
I watched this gripping movie (vcd) last night, and it explores the existential mystery of life, where the boundaries of randomness seem too large to ignore. The plot sort of circles around a man who wants to alter the past for a better future. Evan (Ashton Kutcher) blacked out several painful episodes from his sublimated childhood, but discovered he can use his childhood journals to trigger his return to the past where he can undo certain unhappy events. But every time he prevents one tragedy, it precipitates another..
The movie truly lives up to its more technical version of its name, the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", which strengthens the plot where the butterfly effect is the essence of chaos. I was truly mind-blown by the storyline.. (: 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' -Louis Pasteur
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"There is no such thing as chance,
only patterns we do not understand."
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