The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 561 Science Fiction Movie
The butterfly effect, a chaotic phenomenon in which a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon can cause a tornado in Texas, USA.

Although he can no longer remember when this was the content of geography class, Anson can remember that the time when he really had a profound experience of this phenomenon came from this movie:

"The Butterfly Effect".

The movie tells the story of a young man named Evan, who had a bad childhood. He once got into great trouble, so that his childhood was full of unpleasant memories; but in fact, he only vaguely remembered some terrible scenes, and these scenes have been haunting him. He affects normal life.

On the advice of a psychiatrist, Evan began to record trivial life in a notepad, but accidentally discovered that he could go back to the past through the notepad.

Slowly, he remembered that he had made many mistakes in his childhood.

Therefore, he fantasizes about using his current consciousness to sneak into his childhood body to make up for the harm caused to people by various mistakes, especially in the hope of getting together with the girl he had a crush on back then.

However, he discovered that his repeated changes across time and space could only make the real world worse and worse, like a butterfly effect.

So, what should he do?
Although there have been a series of movies before and after that have focused on the butterfly effect; this movie truly shows the possible consequences of the butterfly effect in detail, and it is an outstanding presence among many works.

When the movie was released, as Edgar's colleagues judged, the movie was too brain-burning and profound, and failed to awaken the audience's resonance, which seriously affected the market response of the movie, and was unlike those movies in history that were so ahead of their time that they were not understood or even understood. Like science fiction movies that have been distorted and criticized, the box office performance of "The Butterfly Effect" is not worth mentioning.

"Blade Runner", "RoboCop", "Black Hole Frequency", "Twelve Monkeys", "Pre-Destination", "Run Lola Run", "This Man is from Earth" and so on are all science fiction movies. in this way.

However, gold always shines.

After time polishing and precipitation, as well as the waves of experienced movie fans, those excellent works will eventually win their own light.

The same is true for "The Butterfly Effect". Although the box office performance was disappointing, the movie was very popular in the video rental market. Those niche science fiction movie fans exclaimed that they were so late and highly praised the movie.

Thanks to the film's subsequent profits and excellent reputation, the film company saw business opportunities and actually restarted the film, filming the second and third parts one after another.

Although the latter two sequels were only continuations and of appalling quality, the fact that the series of films has been able to develop into a third film shows the far-reaching influence of the first film.

Until twenty years later, when people count "niche" science fiction movies, the name "Butterfly Effect" is still indispensable.

Now, the film is in the hands of Anson——

A little bit excited.

Among countless movie types, science fiction has always occupied a place. It may be an exploration of the past, the future, the spiritual world, or the outer space universe. While showing imagination, it is also an exploration of human beings themselves. and extension.

Anson also really hopes to star in a science fiction movie.

What's more, "The Butterfly Effect" is slightly different from other science fiction movies in that it is an excavation of itself.

"Alien" is about the fear of outer space monsters, "Terminator" is about the fear of artificial intelligence apocalypse, and "Blade Runner" is about the development of human cloning technology.

And so on and so forth.

As for the "Butterfly Effect", the perspective is inward, not focusing on the destiny of mankind and the development of science and technology, but focusing on the individual and thinking about the destiny of the individual - have you ever regretted it? Have you ever wanted to change a past mistake? If I hadn't said those words and made another choice, would my life have taken a completely different path?
I'm afraid everyone has thought about this thought at least once.

Anson is no exception.

In fact, more than once.

In his previous life, during the days and nights after his father disappeared, when he was tossing and turning all night long, he stared at the ceiling and couldn't help but think this way.

It is precisely because of this that humans are always particularly obsessed with time machines.

In "The Butterfly Effect", Evan had such an opportunity and did so. The repeated and pulled emotions, the impact and torture of those experiences are not just regrets, but often a complicated and complicated taste.

Anson still remembers how passionate fans interpreted the film from different angles, and one of the discussions focused on Evan’s motivations:

If Evan really liked that girl so crazily that he would go back to the past through the notepad again and again at all costs, even if he was shattered to pieces, then he had never found that girl all these years, and seemed to have a happy emotional relationship.

Anson thought, maybe that was an obsession.

If there is no chance to change the past and there is no possibility of realizing that relationship, then keep a distance, silently bless, retain the beauty of your youth, and focus on the youth and innocence of first love.

But after having the opportunity, I couldn't help but magnify the beauty and potential happiness, as if that was all the possibilities for having an ideal life, so I made a desperate move like a moth to a flame, and finally turned into an obsession.

The so-called obsession is often without reason, at least on the surface there is no reason. The real cause and effect relationship is hidden inside; but it becomes the criterion of a person's behavior and completely destroys a person's reason.

Just like the "butterfly effect", you become obsessed regardless of it.

Perhaps the only pity is that the movie failed to present such an emotional context, nor was it able to present the character's psychological struggle.

On the one hand, it is because the director must focus on the rhythm of the narrative.

After all, the movie is still a commercial work aimed at the box office. The thinking and discussion of the movie itself are already full of philosophical meaning. He can no longer risk driving away the audience and continue to sacrifice the rhythm, so the director puts all the real space for thinking at the end of the movie.

Naturally, there is very little room for development of emotional arcs for the characters.

On the other hand, it is the actor's understanding of the role.

In such a story that focuses on the butterfly effect and is based on human beings' own reflections on tragedy, destiny, and life, if the actors are not able to understand this complexity and pathos, they will naturally not be able to give layers of meaning through performance in the limited space in front of the camera. .

In fact, the paranoia of the character "Butterfly Effect" reminds Anson of the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the multi-Oscar nominated film "There Will Be Blood" who is so blinded by greed and desire that he becomes obsessed. If you dig deeper, His soul is complex and diverse, and can show how an ordinary person evolves into a devil.

The difference is that the devil in "There Will Be Blood" has his hands covered with blood, while the devil in "The Butterfly Effect" ends up aiming the blade at himself.

It's a shame that this movie doesn't manage to make the characters shine like "There Will Be Blood."

(End of this chapter)