love it ... and see some parallels to donnie darko

Rating: 10/10 (13 June 2006)

well, Butterfly Effect is more dense (as the dansk comment says: like a poem no word without a bunch of meaning), but the blackouts, the change of the presence by time traveling into ones own past ... I think butterfly effect and Donnie Darko somehow are two of a kind. While following the downward spiral Donnie takes the opportunity to learn about the metaphysics of time travel and finally loops only one time to the one and only possible thing with fatal results for himself but lots of benefits for his mates). Evan takes a different way of learning about it: every loop he takes with its fatal consequences in the presence adds up to the one clue how to solve it (looks a little bit like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day - what do you think?