Movie Response Entry #2: 11/10/10

When Sean and I finally were able to watch "The Butterfly Effect, we concluded that we choose two movies that were really quite similar. Evan (the main character in "The Butterfly Effect") had the ability to use his journals to go back in time and alter the past. Although, with doing such an act, he changed the out- come of what was going to happen in the future. This was quite coincident to what Donnie was able to do; the both of the main characters had the ability to use what they know while living the present, and able to go back in time and change the total outcome of what is going to happen in the future. On another note, I thought that both films where also quite similar in how the main character's troubles/ schemes all revolved in the fate of their significant female friend. For example, in "The Butterfly Effect", Evan was always trying to make sure that Kayleigh always had a good future and did this by altering what happened in their childhood. Similarly, Donnie realized that his girlfriend should have a good life( rather than being run over by Frank's car), so he used the worm hole to go back in time and took his life rather than Gretchen's.

Usually,  I am not a fan of Ashton Kutcher but he was quite good at playing a serious role for once. This was a film I wouldn't just pick up to watch if I was hanging with my friends, but defiantly as a family movie. I liked all the thrill that happened to him as a child, and how it shaped him as person. For example, when Evan was a kid he was staged into pornographic movie, which he did not think how Kayleigh's life should be framed around. But when Evan was older, he went back to that moment and just told Kayleigh's dad to never touch her and it led her to emancipate herself when she was 15. In conclusion, with watching this movie, it lead to really think what it would be like to have the abilities to alter the past. Although with such power, I wouldn't know when to really stop and know this is the life that I want to live, and it could lead to a death shorter in life.