What is the Butterfly Effect?

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2004)

The Butterfly Effect is the socialization process that people go through as a child that determines their psyche, their future behavior and the type of person that they will become. There is a myriad amount of things at work here. One of the important is the relationship between youth and adulthood. Every childhood experience shapes and molds the life of adults, which is essence with every flashback that alters something new in the present. This is not just a sci-fi thriller it is a morality play on power, compassion and happiness. The title character wants to geninuely help his friends but not to a sacrifice his own happiness. When he has no hands, but everyone is happy he refuses this alternative reality, because he is crippled. He says he is doing it for his mother but he is not. Everything in life cannot be perfect or else it wouldnt be life, it would be a false reality. The center of the movie is the scene between the lead characters father and the younger version when the father tells him he cannot play God and begins to choke him. The diary is metaphor for keeping everything that encompasses your experiences with you. You will never forget what happens, but you cannot let the past dictate the future.