Butterfly Effect - Memento - really lived it or not?

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2004)

The movie comes up to this point where the doctor tells Evan that there are no diaries and all those are his imagination. As a fan of MEMENTO this scene reminded me of that question which the both movies ask: can the brain really create such stuff, can you really live in a series of lies to run away from the facts. (Dont give me john nash as an example :), this is different; a completely new world these characters are living in) Questioning reality, the directors are doing...
The answer: we cant know but we can guess Evans father could have found a way to go back in time and (we dont know his way, maybe he cant do it in the institution but) he could have used protection (:P) rather than just trying to strangle his unwanted son-the last who can travel in time I found this as a big gap and i am sure there are many more gaps (I only watched the movie once) and the director leaves the decision to us
On the other hand this is only a subtheme :)
In other posts I saw question marks about the blackouts
In my opinion the life he lives until he discovers his ability is just another trial where he tries to make it better... showing that gives us backround information and the plot is very cleverly set as we only see the endings of the blackouts (the picture, Evan holding the knife in the middle of the kitchen) this gives us the clue that at some time earlier he had found out his ability and maybe he tried to work things out a million times but couldnt do it. he doesn't remember these trials when we first see him going back because his brain forgets stuff due to the damages this thing causes.
Well thats what i think... :)