What exactly does the butterfly effect mean?

The movie tells the story of Ivan who experienced a series of bad things when he was a child, which damaged his originally perfect life. Tormented by horrific childhood memories, Ivan sought help from a psychiatrist, who encouraged him to write down what happened in detail one by one, but things became worse and worse.

Plot summary——

The male protagonist of the movie often lost his memory when he was a child, so he examined his actions through his diary. Later, the actor's mother moved with him. After growing up, the male protagonist becomes a top student in college. He goes back to find his girlfriend who he agreed to meet, but he reminds her of the unbearable past of filming a movie when she was a child and commits suicide because of it.

The male protagonist reads the diary and discovers that his consciousness can use the words in the diary to return to the time recorded in the diary and try to change the past. The male protagonist tries to solve all the problems, but fails. It often leads to unpredictable consequences, such as killing his girlfriend's brother and being imprisoned; or turning his girlfriend into a woman; or blowing up his own limbs, and his mother's excessive stress and smoking every day leading to lung cancer; or accidentally blowing up a child. Girlfriend, was imprisoned in a mental hospital, etc.

The male protagonist and the heroine are childhood sweethearts. The heroine fell in love with the male protagonist when she was a child. In order to be close to the male protagonist, she chose to live with her father when her parents divorced, and her father was a pervert, which led to After a series of misfortunes, the hero learned the cause after many failures and decided to give up his love for the heroine;

In order to exchange for the happiness of all his friends, happiness must be sacrificed. , just as the brother of the final heroine said that his achievements are based on his mother's sacrifice. In the end, the hero chose to separate from the heroine, and the two of them lived happily each other.

The director's cut DVD has a hidden ending, in which the male protagonist returns to his mother's womb through a video of his birth filmed by his father, and ends up hanging himself with the umbilical cord. The heroine brother and sister were sent to their mother's home to live together and live a good life.

Extended information:

Character introduction——

1. Ivan actor? Ashton Kutcher

Experienced as a child A series of bad things happened, damaging his originally perfect life. Tormented by horrific childhood memories, Ivan sought help from a psychiatrist, who encouraged him to write down everything that happened in detail. Ivan retrieved his memory through the notepad, and then he was surprised to find that he had done so many wrong things back then. Guilt replaced the black hole and began to torture him, causing him great pain.

2. Keller actor? Amy Smart

Ivan’s childhood playmate and childhood sweetheart, she is the person Ivan cares about and loves deeply. It has always been an important presence in my memory.

3. Tommy actor? William Lee Scott

One of Ivan’s good friends and best friend, he grew up with Ivan and his behavior is spicy and vicious. Have a strong possessive desire for friends.