Better than anticipated

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2004)

When I had first seen the preview for this movie, I thought it looked good. To make sure I wasn't delirious when I had seen the preview, I found it online and watched it millions of times. And determined that it was going to be a really good movie. Plus, I've never seen Ashton Kutcher serious, so that was another big turn on. Apparently, my spidey sense was right because I loved it.
The movie is about this kid named Evan. He has these blackouts about traumatizing things that happen to him, so his mother takes him to a doctor, and he advises her to have him write in journals to trigger his memory. You go through moments when he was seven and thirteen and discover that he goes through a lot.
After seven years, he doesn't have any more black outs, but one night his girlfriend finds his journals, and makes him start reading him-bringing back a memory he didn't know he had. He then revisits a childhood friend who was there, Lenny. Now he is very disturbed, and goes kind of insane when Evan asks him to look back on the memories.
He reads a journal from when he was seven, and discovers another disturbing memory. He goes to his other friend, Kayleigh, and asks her to reminisce. Things were said, and she killed herself. Then Evan discovers he can go back to the memories, with his twenty year old brain in tact, and change things
that had happened. But every time he changes one thing there, his world either gets a lot better, or crashes completely.
The first word to describe this movie is intense. The R rating is very suitable for the film because of the language, sex content, language, violence, did I mention language?
The direction was awesome, and the thought of the chaos theory was very good.
The critics must've been high when they saw this movie, because it is truly incredible.