Film Review: The Butterfly Effect
This turbulent quest for identity is ideal for those seeking a deep
and eerie brain teaser with not just twists, but smart twists.
Rather like the mood of Donnie Darko but lacking real quality of its
actors it's a long course of tragedies experienced by the adolescent
Evan Trebhorn who has had a pretty tough life. All in all he has been
molested as a boy, has participated in serious teen vandalism and has
watched his dog burned to death whilst he is hit by a large wooden
plank. Like his mental father he suffers from an estranged brain
disorder that blacks-out harmful memories of significant events in his
life.
However, years later we see the matured Evan (Kutcher) who, despite
his early traumatic experiences is a double psych major, liked by
everyone- predictable? Not so when he discovers how to revisit his
past blackouts and altar the future.
As you can imagine with each time alteration comes something
unexpectedly terrible in the present, soon he is thrusting himself
into every missing moment of his childhood looking for another chance
to fiddle with history and set things right (or at least try to). Of
course the tragedies get greater and greater so it's hard to remain
serious after the third attempt from Mr. Fix It, but it's a movie
after all.
Ultimately Evan manages to blow himself apart, kill his childhood
sweetheart only to bring her back as an addict whore and give his
mother lung cancer. Oh, I almost forgot, he does manage to help one
person; the disturbed dog-murderer turned Christian who steals Evan's
perfect life.
Oddly enough, despite the drastic changes around him that painfully
flood his mind with new memories his personality, psyche and hairstyle
remain the same.
It may be said that Ashton Kutcher, like Keanu Reeves, is only capable
of playing the comical idiot from hits such as "Dude Where's My Car?"
.And it is clear that he doesn't have the emotional heft for us to
The Seven Five is a documentary that frivolously reexamines the crimes of Officer Michael Dowd and his team of dirty cops. Dowd is a former New York police officer who was stationed in the 75th Precinct in Eastern New York. The film presents the nefarious deeds of these officers via original interviews with Dowd and his former comrades as they recount their crimes and explain the reasoning behind their unethical behaviors. While working as a cop, he embellished his income through criminal exploits which include stealing guns, drugs, money, and eventually he began working in drug rings selling cocaine. Dowd’s felonious activities were extremely lucrative and earned him approximately $4,000 a week. Dowd was eventually arrested in 1992,
The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary'. Williams, Tennessee.
The Outsiders is a drama and crime fiction movie written by Kathleen Rowell. The director of the movie is Francis Ford Coppola. There are two rival gangs, the greasers and the socs, that are constantly battling. These battles end in fatalities and two members of the greaser gang running away (Coppola, "The outsiders").
It has been said that one small moment can create large effects; the butterfly effect. For Betty Williams, her small moment occurred on August 10th, 1976 when she witnessed an innocent family get mauled by a runaway car driven by an IRA member in her hometown Belfast, Ireland. Three children were killed and their mother, Anne Maguire, was seriously injured and later committed suicide. Williams was greatly moved by this tragic event. Two days after witnessing the accident, she obtained six thousand signatures on a petition for peace. Later, Williams teamed up with Anne Maguire’s sister to form The Women For Peace, now known as the The Community For Peace. The organization was known for holding mass protests. William’s spearheaded a peaceful march of ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women. The march was diffused by the Irish Army, but it did not stop the movement. The next march was attended by 3,500 people, proving that nonviolent protesting was effective. The loss of three children eventually led one woman to
has to be willing to open his heart to those that seek his help, he
In the movie Silver Linings Playbook there are two main characters, Pat and Tiffany, whom portray a type of mental illness. Below, I will explain each character in regards to their symptoms and portrayal of mental illness and compare the information discussed in the Abnormal Psychology Textbook.
This elderly patient was so bossy just now. If you don't your doing don't stick me I need a butterfly. So I get the butterfly stick me right here on my hand. Me: that's your bone shit see you don't know what your doing.
A movie is usually more entertaining than a book, and engages the public into the thoughts of the film director. In the case of One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, we should evaluate the effectiveness of the movie to quicken transformations in the psychiatric field. In the first place, we must note that the movie is efficient in giving voice to a concealed environment: The psychiatric hospital is not a place most people know well in the 1970s, and most of the public's knowledge on it has arised from watching movies like One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. As one Telegraph journalist ill say "It gave voice, gave life, to a basic distrust of the way in which psychiatry was being used for society's purposes, rather than the purposes of the people
There are many ways that the butterfly effect helps people out. Doing this research showed me that some of the people we come acrossed in life are strong. Some people judge and say they are weak and they really aren’t. They have been through many things and this is them breaking out. These people are either broken, are hurting, they may need your help. Self harm sometimes start by mental problems as well.
The book I have chosen to review is called “Last kiss of the butterfly” by Jill Hucklesby. I enjoyed this book but it took a long time to get to the interesting part of the story. I related well to the book as it is from a teenage perspective. In this review I will be looking at the setting, plot, characterization and the diction.
When tragedy strikes, it is normal for individuals to go through stages of grief. In some situations, people become cemented in one stage of emotional instability. They focus so much on their anger over the inevitability of the unfairness of life, that it eventually makes them go mad. This theme composes the synopsis of Joyce Carol Oates’ book We Were the Mulvaneys. The rape of Marianne Mulvaney catalyzed the disembowelment of the Mulvaney family due to their inability to move on from their grief; each family member coped in unique manners.
One of the best ways to show the mistreatment of people is through media. People are more likely to watch movies because it is entertainment, and this is how we can expose harsh truths without creating fear. One of the movies that did a good job at exposing the truths of an institution without causing people to fear counseling was Girl Interrupted.
The “Butterfly Effect” is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in the chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamic system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is a great theory that can be applied to specific aspects of life and life in general. I believe it can be applied to my life in the sense that every event that has occurred in my life; big, small, good or bad. I would not change anything, because they all came together to bring me to where I am today.
Rutter. Each of the actors has tried to show him in either his best or
While watching the Pixar movie Inside Out with my little neighbor a few weekends ago I noticed that there were some suggestive scenes that fit into the Communications 270 course. The theme being gender in the media. Inside Out is about a girl named Riley who starts off as a happy and adventurous person. Everything seems to be going great in her life because of her inner emotion named Joy played by Amy Poehler. However, Riley’s mood becomes sour when she finds out that she is moving far away from her current home. The stress of moving causes Riley so much mental anguish that her emotions (characters) of Joy and Sadness are swept off into a deep dark place. All that is left inside her head is the emotions