The Butterfly Effect
Jul. 4th, 2013 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyIt's about the movie, and since there's spoilers...
The ending of The Butterfly Effect doesn't make sense on its own. It holds no weight, has no merits, and is missing all the juicy bits that make it a REQUIRED ending.
He never would have just come out at the beginning and told this girl to stay away from him, because the "he" that he was at the time was too blinded by his own rose-colored glasses.
It's the motions of the rest of the movie that make his final decision the only possible solution.
He has to befriend her. He has to care about her. He has to try to fix things in different ways to attempt to make things better. He has to see the results of his actions up to that final breaking point. He has to see how broken and hurt she and his other friend and even himself can become due to his actions before he can finally make the choice he had been avoiding all along.
It would never be enough just to hurt someone he loves. He remains for the most of the movie under the belief that he can mend the hurt and fix the pain. He has to go through those motions over and over and over again. He has to keep making the same choices before he can see the truth: His choices are hurting the ones he loves.
And it's time to make a different choice.
The ending of The Butterfly Effect doesn't make sense on its own. It holds no weight, has no merits, and is missing all the juicy bits that make it a REQUIRED ending.
He never would have just come out at the beginning and told this girl to stay away from him, because the "he" that he was at the time was too blinded by his own rose-colored glasses.
It's the motions of the rest of the movie that make his final decision the only possible solution.
He has to befriend her. He has to care about her. He has to try to fix things in different ways to attempt to make things better. He has to see the results of his actions up to that final breaking point. He has to see how broken and hurt she and his other friend and even himself can become due to his actions before he can finally make the choice he had been avoiding all along.
It would never be enough just to hurt someone he loves. He remains for the most of the movie under the belief that he can mend the hurt and fix the pain. He has to go through those motions over and over and over again. He has to keep making the same choices before he can see the truth: His choices are hurting the ones he loves.
And it's time to make a different choice.
