This week my friends and I watched the movie The Butterfly Effect. It is a 2004 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber and starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular metaphor for the principle in chaos theory. Kutcher plays 20 year old student Evan Treborn, with Smart as his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh Miller. He finds he has the ability to travel back in time to inhabit his former self and change the present. Having been the victim of several childhood traumas aggravated by stress-induced memory losses, he attempts to set things right for himself and his friends, but there are unintended consequences for all. The film draws heavily on flashbacks of the cast's lives at age 5, 7 and 13, and presents several alternate present day outcomes as Evan attempts to change the past, before settling on a final outcome. It is a great movie which let me know that small initial differences may over time lead to large unforeseen consequences.
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