Sehaj Babra

Ian Moy
English 113
May 9, 2023
The Butterfly Effect

This essay discusses about this incredible movie written and

directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. It keeps you on the edge
from start to finish, it is dramatic as well as a sci-fi thriller. However, it
depends on the perspective of the person who watches this movie.
Personally, it really made me think about how life can be so
complicated. When we think about a butterfly, we look at it as a
diminutive, little creature with beautiful wings. This movie highlights
how a diversion like a butterfly’s wings can have a crucial meaning
which we may never notice.
In this movie, just like the butterfly’s wings, stories told by people
are important, they go down gently, but they move people by its beauty.
The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing
a typhoon. The story is based on the life of Evan Treborn, who is the
main character, and how his life was tough since his childhood. He
suffers from a psychological disorder and was afflicted with blackouts;
he would be in one place one minute and then another the next. His dad
suffered the same problems and as shown in the movie, this disorder
was genetic.
All grown up and settled, he finds out about an old journal he
wrote to remember stuff that might have happened in his childhood, he
starts reading and suddenly finds himself back at a certain point in his
life. He realizes that those blackouts he had were empty spaces of time
he had to fill up later in life. Evan discovers that he can get back to his
memories by reading the journals. But every time he tries to fix
something about his past, his present is worsened. This movie really
opens the perspective of people and how they look at their present and
wish to go back in time to fix certain things. What the writer is trying to
say is change one thing, and it changes everything.
To conclude, Brain is the most complex organ in a human body.
Our life is structured on how we make use of it and how we let go of
things that we can't change. It's about accepting our present and finding
new ways to make it better.

Babra,Sehaj – The butterfly effect 2004