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
has a knack for being able to portray an erratic man who in one instant is
The captivity of large, wild animals is accepted for theme parks all around the world. Tickets are sold for people to come and watch these animals live and even preform in an exhibit that almost resembles their natural environment. It is impossible for parks and zoos that use animals as attractions to provide the same resources and space they would have in the habitat they are usually found in. They can, however, help injured or ill animals that cannot survive in the wild. This is where I believe they should draw the line for keeping animals in captivity. SeaWorld has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years, especially since the Netflix documentary, Blackfish, was released. This film targets the company for the mistreatment of their orca whales. In particular, it told the story of one named Tilikum and shows the problems he and the other orca whales face while living under the care of SeaWorld. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the director
“The Secret Life of Bees” is a movie that takes us through the incredible journey of a young girl named Lily Owens. She grows up with the horrible memory of the day she accidentally killed her mother. She and the family maid who has tried to fill the empty void as her mother, Rosaleen, escape the mistreatment that Lily receives from her father, T-Ray. After Rosaleen heard the news on T.V. about the Civil Rights Act being passed, she decided to take the opportunity and register to vote. As they got to town to register Rosaleen, she dumped the juice from her chew container onto men who made fun of her. She was arrested, and that is when they escaped.
"Crash" tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless, all defined in one way or another by racism. All are victims of it, and all are guilty it. Sometimes, yes, they rise above it, although it is never that simple. Their negative impulses may be instinctive, their positive impulses may be dangerous, and who knows what the other person is thinking?
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
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has to be willing to open his heart to those that seek his help, he
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,
Society is a result of our interactions, and society guides our interactions. This all stems from social construction. Social construction conveys values, ideas and traditions. These values, ideals and traditions are created and become traditions that are then passed on. These traditions then come to be perceived as natural rather than cultural, which is often how media will display it and society unknowingly accepts.
The name of the film I am going to review is final destination 3, it is the 3rd in the final destination series. It was released in the cinemas on February 11th 2006 and then released on DVD and video on 25th July 2006.
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.
Have you ever heard of a time travel story that did not go wrong? “A Sound of Thunder” is an old story written by Ray Bradbury regarding the journey that an experienced hunter, Eckels and a crew of safari guides took through time for the sake of hunting what were considered to be the strongest creatures that had walked the earth, the dinosaurs. In wary of unintentionally changing the future, the crew pre-marked a Tyrannosaurus-Rex that had been predetermined to die soon with red paint and intended to only kill that single target without harming anything else. They also prepared a path away from the ground where as long as they stay on it, they won’t need to worry about the plants or small animals that they may accidentally step on. Contrarily,
Love is a word that’s been both miss-used and over-used all at once. Romantic movies change our definition of and have a big impact on this definition greatly. There have been many movies and novels made over love, but never like this. “The Notebook” is a love story about unconditional love that two people have for each other. This emotionally, heart touching story will have your eyes blood-shot and burning from you not wanting to blink your eyes. This tremendously wonderful love story will have you not wanting to even miss a millisecond of this heart throbbing film. With many plot twists and many scenes that will have you falling off of your seat and you not having any nails by the end of the movie, this is the movie for you. This emotionally rich film is full of action, laughter, and romance, which is the perfect trio combination. This movie shows us how love can bind us together forever. This film went above and
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