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DVD The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
Despite box-office dominance during its opening weekend, The Butterfly Effect is better suited to guilty-pleasure viewing at home. When writer-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (who penned Final Destination 2) aren't breaking their own haphazard rules of logic, they're filling this sordid thriller with enough unpleasantness to make eternal damnation seem like an attractive alternative. In a role-reversal from his That '70s Show persona, Ashton Kutcher plays a college-age psychology student who discovers, by re-reading his childhood journals, that he can revisit his past and alter traumatic events, hoping to improve their previously unfortunate outcomes. Instead, this foolhardy experiment in chaos theory (the titular "butterfly effect," popularized by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park) results in a variety of nightmarish permutations, each having dire consequences for him and/or his friends. This intriguing premise is explored with a few interesting twists and turns, but with subplots involving child pornography, animal cruelty, and profanely violent children, it's a stretch to call it entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
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A VERY GOOD MOVIE THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES.
BASICALLY I LIKE TO WRITE REVEIEWS FOR PRODUCTS THAT I BELEIVE ARE VERY GOOD OR POOR BASED ON MY OPINION AND PERSONEL EXPERIECES.NOW THIS MOVIE I LOVE BECAUSE I DO RECOMMENDED TO BUY.
A Suprise
I actually just viewed this movie a couple of nights ago and was suprised that I actually enjoyed it. Dark and demented, this movie actaully plays on a scientific and psychological mind that is very unique. I have to say, I was not familiar with the "Butterfly Effect" Theory and background, but I decided to research the material and had fun doing it! So I learned something new and I watched a curious and great movie as well.
More Reviews Than the "Wizard of Oz"!!!
For a relatively obscure film, "Butterfly" has stimulated a lot of discourse and counter opinions. Reviewers' descriptors include: romantic, entertaining, mystery, sleaze, violent, thriller, dark, psychological, horror, sinister, time travel, evil, scientific, disturbing, etc. These come from both favorable and unfavorable reviews.
To understand Butterfly, one has to understand what the "butterfly effect" is; otherwise the viewer will be sorely disappointed. The official editorial reviewer, Shannon, points to "Jurassic Park" for edification, but that's nonsense; don't waste your time there.
Without going into detail, the butterfly effect is a very real scientific postulation that includes elements of chaos theory, non-linear differential equations, and how infinitesimal differences in initial conditions can drastically change outcomes. Specifically, the butterfly effect refers to how the action of a butterfly in one part of the world might have unexpected but profound effects on weather systems half way around the globe. Sounds absurd (like many found the movie), but it is an accepted theory in the scientific community. I recommend "Chaos" by Gleick for a clear and understandable explanation of the effect, and for a general understanding of chaos theory.
If I had no understanding of the butterfly effect, I would have panned the movie too. On the other hand, I found Butterfly to be a provocative interpretation.
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