Saturday 31 January, 2004 at 12:41PM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (3)

Change One Thing, Change Everything. Great movie. We went and saw it last night and we were impressed, or at least I was. I wondered before going in if I would associate Evan (Ashton Kutcher's character) with the persona of 'Kelso' from 'That Seventies Show', but I'm pleased to say Ashton Kutcher pulled it off without me thinking of him as Kelso even once. The character of Evan in the early stages of the movie is portrayed at a younger age for much of the time (played well by John Patrick Amedori), so by the time you see Ashton Kutcher again, you're already involved in the storyline and associate him with the character Evan rather than Kelso. Good move, whether it was intentional or not.

The story itself is related loosely to Lorenz's Chaos Theory (and hence the movie title) which, when he presented his theory to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?". To put it more simply, cause and effect.

The movie feeds off this idea and sees Evan (Ashton Kutcher) returning again and again to childhood to try and change disturbing events in the past that had an adverse effect in the future, only to find that by removing or changing these events in his past, he created other unpredictable changes in his future, changes that did not turn out the way he expected. It's one of those movies where you come out at the end thinking 'hmm.. so what if..?' Anyway the end result is that I recommend it. If you have the opportunity, go see it.

I'll rate it 4 weasels out of a possible 5. I might have rated it even higher but for two reasons, (a) nothing's perfect, and (b) posting a picture of half a weasel is just sick.