Note: We have already published the following article in a similar form and edited it slightly differently because of the TV broadcast.
That’s the thing with time travel movies. Most, or at least a great many, are frustratingly illogical. Basically, time travel itself is illogical, if So apply a time travel concept to a science fiction film, it must at least be self-contained. Butterfly Effect meets this requirement. Tonight the film runs at 11:25 p.m. on Tele 5. Here we explain what is so frightening and good about this 2000s work.
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Butterfly Effect – Trailer (German)
The amazing time travel application in Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher plays Evan, the lead in the thriller. Evan is college-age. As a child, after some traumatizing experiences, he began to keep a diary. Eventually he discovers that he can travel back in time by reading passages from the diary. Then he returns exactly to those events. If he changes something in the past, this triggers an increasing chain of deformations in the present. Hence the title: Butterfly Effect, translated butterfly effect.
Butterfly Effect is shaping up to be a surprisingly gritty time travel horror
Ultimately, Butterfly Effect is about trauma processing. The goal of Evan’s travels is always his childhood. There he was part of a clique around Tommy, Lenny and Kayleigh. Tommy (Cameron Bright) turns out to be a child with psychopathic tendencies.
He and his sister Kayleigh grow under an extreme abusive father on. In this childhood, some crucial, sometimes very shocking events take place that Evan reverses. He gets caught up in a whirlpool and realizes that there is no such thing as a perfect future.
Whatever he does, the consequences are terrible. In this respect, Butterfly Effect is much harder and more consistent than comparable genre films such as Back to the Future. Fans of time travel movies shouldn’t miss it. Or rediscover it, that too is a great experience.
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