The Butterfly Effect: The Butterfly Effect

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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

INTRODUCTION

We live in a world where every action we make leads to unpredictable consequences. Some believe that destiny rules our world, and in the end nobody if free of it, nobody can stop events to happen, because the future is unpredictable. Some of you may believe that life ruled by karma or as simply as the butterfly effect in our lives.
The butterfly effect or also known as The Chaos theory is a theory studied for decades by many historians and mathematics. This theory refers to the insignificant actions in the starting point, which can lead to great different results.

The butterfly effect got its name from the mathematician, Edward Lorenz, by his theory that merely the flutter of a butterfly's wings could influence the development of a hurricane several weeks later.
The butterfly effect is the large effect that a small action can make in the future.

The butterfly effect is written and directed by Eric Bress and J.Mackye Gruber the film has a pretty great casting and has Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz, Melora Walters, Cameron Bright, William Lee Scott, Ethan Suplee and Logan Lerman. The movie is about Evan Treborn played by Ashton Kutcher, now, when he was younger he deled with abuse, drama, and suffered a lot of black outs and it follows when he is 7 years old and when he is 13 years old and then when you see him in the present day. During his life a lot of things ended up going wrong, but there was one girl that kind of makes everything better for him and who`s he`s been absolutely in love since he was a kid, and that´s Kayleigh Miller played by Amy Smart, and when he gets older he realises he has the ability to time travel and go back in time and kind of change thing in ...

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...ematography is great and the action, but the storyline will get you impress.

Run Lola Run really makes us think about the chaos theory. What if her mopped didn’t get stolen, or if Manni noticed before the homeless man with his money, who passes on the cyclist's bike. If this should have happen in the first run, Lola wouldn’t had to do the run 3 times. But it wasn’t like that, Lola’s mopped got stolen anyways, and if it didn’t maybe she should have been able to meet with Manni on time.
What if the cyclist passed she didn’t accuse him of stealing the bike he was selling; which then a flash-forward shows lead him to become homeless. What if the homeless man didn’t buy the bike, maybe he wouldn’t have been seen by Manni. All these results are because an insignificant action that lead to big consequences and make everything change; this is called the Butterfly effect.

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