Artsy Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2018)

The Butterfly Effect is not only one of the ultimate edge of your seat thrillers, but it is also so mind-twistingly good that you could not even predict the outcome for the characters. Watching this when I was 11 I never appreciated how thought-provoking it was, until now at the age of 25. The Butterfly Effect goes on the chaos theory, "something as small as the flutter of butterfly wings, can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world". Evan is a troubled boy who lives with his struggling single mother in a small town. The troubles have led to the boy blacking out and he is ordered to write in journals to remember events.
Now a college student, Evan looks over his diaries to see what happened in his childhood before deciding he wants to free himself of all the memories. When Evan discovers he can go back in time, he tries to change certain aspects of his childhood friends (Kayleigh, Tommy, and Lenny) disturbing pasts so they lead on to have better lives. However, these minor changes will cause far bigger problems in the future.