The Butterfly Effect
Alright, this movie was weird. If someone hadn't given me a brief explanation of the movie before I watched then I would've totally walked away thinking, WTF!! Without giving too much away, the main character [Ashton Kutcher] tries to go back in time to fix his past. This isn't some Back to the Future type movie with a time machine...it's weird and very complicated. The Butterfly Effect gives rise to the notion that when a butterfly flaps its wing in one area of the world it causes a catostrophic weather event in another part. The movie follows the idea that life, no matter how complex and complicated, relies upon an underlying order, and that very simple or small changes in the past can cause very complex behaviors or events in the future.
Watching the film made me ask myself if I had the opportunity to go back knowing what I know now would I change anything? I know some peeps will say, 'I wouldn't be the person I am today if....' When I hear that answer that's my cue to roll my eyes because you can't tell me if you had the chance to go back in time and prevent yourself from tripping in front of those executives or the chance to tell homeboy to put on a condom or even get the chance to say your last goodbye to someone who has passed you wouldn't. Don't even try and convince yourself you wouldn't take the opportunity to change that moment that may have served as the prerequisite for the rest of your life. Tell me, I dare you.
Then again, it's those little moments that you never think twice about that if changed throws off your entire balance. Maybe spending that extra 3 seconds looking up at the sky or deciding to pick up the phone on it's last ring or even sitting for the extra minute while your car warmed up might have saved your life. Either way life is about the unknown. We make decisions on what we think is right at the time. If given the opportunity would I go back and change something in my past...well, yes, but only if I got to see, at that moment, how different my life would be.
posted by Jbrit @ 7:52 PM
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