Who can explain the butterfly effect of movies to me?

Analysis of butterfly effect in movies

1. Is the protagonist mentally ill?

No, if so, the ending of this movie will be meaningless.

About the ending: there are four of them.

(1) The end of the director's extended edition

The family movie that the protagonist watched was that his mother was about to give birth to the protagonist. The protagonist who entered history decided to end it all by himself. He grabbed the umbilical cord with both hands and ended his upcoming life.

(2) The ending of the theatrical version

The home movie the protagonist watched was the first time he saw Kelly. Back in the past, the protagonist scolded Kelly. He and Kelly did not become good friends, and the custody of Kelly and Tommy was also obtained by his mother. After work, the protagonist ran into Kelly in the street, but didn't recognize her.

(3) The ending of the theatrical version is the same as (2). Finally, after the protagonist meets Kelly, he goes back to chase Kelly.

(4) The ending of the theatrical version is the same as that of (2), and finally there are two strangers.

2. Because Kelly was killed, there should be no "university and prison, amputation" process in the future. The doctor said that the protagonist always mentioned that he shuttled between college, prison and amputation, because he was always addicted to the fantasy of killing Kelly in order to feel better inside. Isn't the protagonist mentally ill? The part about the doctor in the film, when the protagonist comes back, is the moment when we see him come back with all his memories intact. His memory should be gradually restored before he comes back completely. For doctors, the protagonist gradually developed different fantasies, while for the protagonist, it gradually recovered. We saw that at that time in the film, it was the time when the protagonist completely recovered his memory.

3. Why can the protagonist return to the unborn world through video? People in the protagonist's family can return to their amnesia or unconsciousness through diaries, photos and videos (not to their amnesia or unconsciousness, but to their previous consciousness). The photo found by the protagonist at the beginning of the film, the doctor said that his father was looking for an album, and his grandfather's death certificate can prove this. When you were not born, you were unconscious and had no memory. The protagonist can go back to the unborn time through video.

4. Why did the doctor say there was no diary? Because he accidentally blew up the heroine, there was no later life and no diary. Finally, I can only go back to the unborn time through video. Diary existed before the heroine was killed. )

5. At the end, a narrator said, "After three stillbirths". How to explain it? Before, the protagonist's mother said that he should have had two brothers before, so it seems that the two brothers of the protagonist are very likely to embark on the same fate as the protagonist and be stillborn for the third time.

6. What is the number of diaries? Fewer and fewer, only two of his mother brought diaries to prison (the film says the others are still in custody). I found these two, and the other one is still in storage); When amputating, there is only one book (written before amputation); Not when I was a doctor. The butterfly effect changed the past, so did the number of diaries. This should be a BUG: because before killing Kelly, the protagonist kept a diary at breakfast, so this diary existed, but the doctor said it didn't. The protagonist can get dad's film. Film exists, but the doctor says it doesn't. Same BUG.

7. Did the protagonist let Fat Lanny kill Tommy? Why else would Lanny ask later: "You gave me that sharp weapon and knew something would happen"? It's definitely not the protagonist who asked fatty Lanny to kill Tommy, but Tommy asked Lanny to set it up before. Therefore, the death of mother and son hit Lanny hard, causing him to faint immediately. After that, the protagonist handed Lanny the sharp weapon, told him to cut the rope on the bag to save the puppy, and said to him, "This will at least alleviate your guilt." Lanny saw that Tommy was going to burn the puppy, and with the incident, his hatred for Tommy increased sharply, so he killed him on impulse. As for what Lanny asked later, "You knew something would happen when you gave me that sharp weapon." Many people will reflect on their mistakes, because the protagonist gave Lanny that sharp weapon, and Lanny will naturally question it.

8. How many times has going back to the past not changed the future? Five times.

(1), reading the diary in the dormitory, suddenly returned to the scene where Tommy burned the dog and asked, "Where am I?" But the dog was still burned to death.

(2) Some attempted ideas did return to the scene of the explosion, and cigarette butts burned a scar on his stomach, bringing him back to reality.

(3) When I went back to painting, I hurt my hand, left a scar, and "brought back" the reality. When I went back to the kitchen to get a knife, I was awakened by my mother.

(5) Reading a diary under a big tree is the first and last time I saw my father in a mental hospital. The protagonist of adult thinking said that he has the ability to change the past and make up for the shortcomings. After his father advised him to fail, he jumped up and tried to strangle the protagonist to prevent him from constantly changing the past and making his own mistakes. The above situation can only be explained as that things are too small to have enough impact on the future development direction, so they have not changed the future. These five failed crossings correspond to five fragments of the protagonist's amnesia when he was a child, which also explains why he lost his memory at that time because the consciousness of young Evan was temporarily replaced by that of adult Evan.

9. When I was a child, I drew that picture of killing people. How do you explain it? Paintings that kill people as children are of course the future. He went back to draw, because at that time he had the idea of killing two criminals, so he drew this picture before going back to stab his hand and leave a scar. This also explains why he can't remember why he painted that picture when he was a child, because it was painted later; Similarly, when he went back to the kitchen with a knife to destroy the explosion, his mother came over and woke up without remembering why he took the knife. The above entry is wrong, but it is actually a BUG: the protagonist first travels back to painting when he was a child, and then kills two prisoners. Therefore, it is impossible for the protagonist to know what he will do, nor to draw a scene, let alone be drawn by an adult protagonist. Why did you stay and paint when you were a child? The above is not because of it at all.