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Continued the holiday moving watching last night with The Butterfly Effect, a movie which projects itself as a proponent of chaos theory. Its opening screen records : "It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world". However, the film is a rather more sophisticated version of Back the Future 2, which projects simultaneous/parallel realities, which can be accessed at critical moments.
The film raises a lot of good questions about the nature of reality, and in relation to perspectives on mental illness (not unlike A Beautiful Mind). It also highlights the power of a single choice to affect our futures.
But, if we had our time over again, would we make any better choices? Evan, the main character in the movie, has a number of opportunities to make the future better, but he is unable to gain the ‘ideal future’ he desires. Each time his “correction” brings unintended consequences.
I wonder whether, if any of us could alter choices we had made at critical moments in the past, the outcome would be satisfactory in every respect?
Posted by gary at January 19, 2005 11:45 AM
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