Change your life before it has changed you

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2005)

Would you like to change your life before it has changed you? To get back to your past and cap the holes? It's much harder than you think, even if you have the moments in your past you didn't live and have a chance to live them out whenever you want! Basically, that's the plot of "The Butterfly Effect". Nothing shocking, nothing scaring, not really much stunning but still well-made, well-acted and indeed well-invented in 1972 by Edvard Lorenz, the meteorologist from the Massachusets Institute of Technology.
Direction, editing, light and make-up are amazing. Photography is not outstanding but still fine. Special effects are barely present: they are not needed in this story. In fact, the film could be a little shorter but then it would make some final scenes misunderstood. The biggest screenplay hole is that it seems like the characters can either live in perfect harmony or get to the penitentiary or the madhouse.
Psychology-fiction. I don't really like such kind of movies but this one is 8 of 10. Don't ask for the matter, just watch it. And further try to think before you do.