The Butterfly Effect DVD Review (2004)
Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has lost track of time. From a very early age, crucial moments in their lives have de-DISAPPEARED into the black hole of oblivion, his childhood has been marked by a series of terrifying events that can not remember. What remains is the ghost of memories and broken lives that ro-dean: those of his childhood friends, Kayleigh (Amy Smart), Lenny (Elden Henson) and Tommy (William Lee Scott). Throughout his in-Evan France he attended therapy sessions with a psychologist who encouraged him to write a diary with all the details of everyday life. Later, in college, decides to read one of their day-ment and suddenly and inexplicably found in the past. Finally he realizes that the diaries he keeps under the bed are a vehicle to go back and recover its re-sane. However, these memories only make you feel at Evan responsible for the ruined lives of his friends, par-ticularly that of Kayleigh, my friend who was his first love and she still wants. Determined to carry out what he could do during its infancy, Evan travels back in time with his mind-body current child-and tries to rewrite history to their will-res ones are not subjected to traumatic experiences had. By changing the past Evan hopes to transform the present. How-ever, every time Evan changes something in the past to re-discover this stoneware that his actions have unexpected and disastrous consequences. However much he tries, is unable to create a reality that allows he and Kayleigh to live happily-mind.
The issue of time travel has been so widely discussed in both film and literature than to po-co which is something you-ma fan, you already know by heart the para-dojas and the serious disadvantages travel time are capable of causing. It is for this reason that when I went to see “The Butterfly Effect” I did it with a certain lack of confidence, therefore, a priori, there are some elements that make us think the worst: the presence of teen idol Ashton Kutcher as protagonist, for example, it was a serious drawback, but even that was more the fact that marketing of this film suggests in a commodity business in which case such complex issues to do well in films By now, it was logical to think that it would come to fruition. Prejudices have them all and that is without sin cast the first stone. But lo and behold the surprise: “The butterfly effect, despite its obvious flaws, is a film resultona either built-da and entertaining, it also strives at all times be consistent with the complexity of the subject matter, offering at times even brilliant solutions on issues rather than getting stale and the viewer will take some time, once the projection turns to look at the endless paradoxes that arise from time travel undertaken by the protagonist, which is rather more of what can be said of most Hollywood film that invades our living rooms ca-da weekend.
“The Butterfly Effect” starts with a very interesting approach you rather own a plot of the psychological terror film of science fiction that ultimately never become entirely, despite its plot column: a boy suffers from some inexplicable mental blocks, a time when your mind goes blank and after school, not remember anything of what happened then, pa-sages which usually coincide with stressful situations and where their with -conduct of concern to his teachers and his mother, fearing that the boy may be going through the same thing that brought his father to end up in a mental institution. To make matters worse, the gang of ami-gos with which it relates is made up of a brother and sister (the girl who will be his first love and a precocious psychopath) who have a parent child molester who are subjected to all kinds of abuse and a fat kid and asthma-prone imbalances. A whole clinical picture. With these elements, jó-Venes writers construct a good story of intrigue, punctuated by an occasional showy detail (one of the great evils of horror movies today is simply resorting to a sudden increase in volume to find the shock in staff) who co-bra much interest when, being the adult protagonist, dis-ment that can project his mind through time toward the past due to the small daily writing, and thus-we changed some of the terrible facts of his childhood, in order to help himself and, of course, their friends, the harsh consequences they had on their lives. Of course, like every good fan knows, the slightest change in the past causing them to believe a series of alternate realities in which the protagonist this has changed completely (and sadly, not better, but much worse), so will have to travel again and again in order to fix the growing mess.
Thus stated, “The Butterfly Effect” does not differ much from other films that have approached the theme before. But it does contain elements-ines some interest that I read is noteworthy, even briefly. For starters, the directors put special care in the always delicate and confusing story line that cause the trips in time, so they get, at least in appearance-ence, all the pieces fit together with remarkable accuracy, without only loose ends (ends that do are at the reflect-ing a little in detail about each and every one of the angu-those of history: it is almost impossible task to pretend that this does not happen, though the film so brilliantly disguising, so that near-misses), which is enough to appre-cer: the greatest danger we have a product that is based on an argument so fragile as it is their lack of credibility by errors of inconsistency of argument in which would be relatively easy to fall and that the writers smartly dodge. Another surprising element in a product of these features is the crude-za one of the themes the film deals mainly everything about Eric Stoltz’s character, a co-switches disturbing children not hesitate to abuse their two sons and the protagonist, playing a crucial role in their future lives.
The film has some tendency to sensationalism, sometimes a little crazy (see the slapstick scene that shows the consequences of his first jump time, whose future returns become prac-tically in what the protagonist most despises , whose tone of teen comedy hits front-mind with what the film has been showing so far), but maintains interest throughout most of the footage thanks to the imaginative writers tion and successive rotations in the narrative. Although the attentive viewer can easily predict some of the consequences of acts of Evan, they are always one step ahead, offering new challenges and situations that force Evan to continue to seek a so-portable reality for himself and for which around him. From this point of view, one should note some interesting ideas (a brief but Evan basic conversation with his father or disappearance at a given time of day that allow time travel) but at the same time requires writers to twist too much his own proposal, providing an outlet to the rather contrived mess in which they themselves have set to the protagonist, who although may be effective in resolving the story, can only offer some uneasiness by not keep up of previous ideas in the film. Something that, moreover, is a symptom be-ing increasingly common in Hollywood, where the stories often have initial approaches infinitely more interesting than the way you finish them.
No doubt the film would have won even more enticing without the presence of an Ashton Kutcher whom God has called-do not precisely in the ways of American acting (pe-ro in the absence of which the film is not would come true), one can-in accordance with the efforts of Amy Smart resultona to be credible in at least four different charac-ters and take refuge in a story that, despite its flaws and in-consistencies, get engage and entertain the viewer. Both found no complicated after the film reflecting on the plot of the same and conclude that their virtues outweigh its flaws. If we consider that we have a tape with a huge theme-ing accessed by the film with the most diverse results can be concluded that we have a product that meets their objectives “Braden so without undermining the intelligence of the spectator is – . As is the courtyard, is worth to me.
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