23 September 2006

The Butterfly Effect

My first reaction after the beginning of the movie was : hey, that's Kelso from "That Seventies Show". I used to watch this show some years ago and it was fun.
Apparently, Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) has grown up and he's able to do more than looking stupid (don't get me wrong, I think he does that well too ;) )

I had never heard of the movie before watching it and I think that if you can accept the idea that the main character can alter his past (kind of like "Back to the Future, but without the DeLorean) you can get into the movie. There are a couple of strange and even illogic things (he can change the past but come back into the same reality.... that's not the same theory as Doc/Emmett Brown...) but I wasn't in the mood for thinking too much about it :)

Overall, I really enjoyed it, well organized, well directed, nice effects, OK actors. I even think this movie has "the little something" that makes a movie a really good movie.

[EDIT and SPOILER]
I've read some comments around the web and apparently, there are several endings to the movie. I've seen the version where Evan goes back to the womb to strangle himself. My understanding of the ending is that the two stillborn children his mother had had before him did the same thing Evan does, which is why she has not been able to have kids with Evan's father. Afterwards though, she meets another man and is able to have a "normal" child... My two cents...

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