The Butterfly Effect Analysis

Everyone makes choices every day, every hour, every minute. But, what is really hidden behind our every action, gesture, solution? Do we realize the possible consequences of even the small steps we have taken? What if…This "what if...?" is shown by Jaco Van Dormael who has created a world around the latest mortal person in the world, Nemo Nobody, a man who could still remember what did it mean to live. In his movie, Van Dormael touched upon a great number of ever-relevant topics, not giving answers, but asking the right questions. What’s captivating is an appeal to different types of audience: somewhere questions are asked directly through the characters, somewhere they are arising in the thinking minds of the audience.

Van Dormael, like a

His future potential father mentions about butterfly effect. The Butterfly Effect is a hypothesis that the simplest actions in the present (or past) can lead to tremendous changes in the future (and, accordingly, in the present). It took the place in the would-be scientific approach after the story of Ray Bradbury "A Sound of Thunder", which characters travelled to the distant past, and one of them accidentally stepped on a butterfly. Upon returning to the present, the characters did not know their world. The butterfly located somewhere in the Amazon, with a wave of its wings can significantly influence the weather in the United

Nemo has to make the second choice at the train station. The train, which accelerates faster on the tracks, is symbolic: you cannot jump into the departing train. You have already made the decision, there is no way back. There are rails, running up, changing the points several times during the changes of Nemo’s life. The thing is that the rails mean life. This is the track that gives you the right direction and the only thing among the many possible, this is your way, and you are a traveler.

World of Jaco van Dormael is bright, fantastic and charmingly authentic, for all its absurdity. It looks like parts of the mirror scattering in all directions, gleaming in the sun, in the reflections of which you can find all the diversity of the world, regardless of whether it happens in future, past or present. And these linear time points are easily reversed, as well.

"Sometimes the right move is to stand still", but not in this case. Go and look. Go and live! Everything is possible, the film says. There are no bad choices. Each life, each scenario is valuable in itself, the director declares to us through the main hero. In each of our lives every day, there are hundreds of choices, and there is no good or bad. Just one of the choices creates another life, another unique world. Every life deserves to be lived, each pathway to be passed — this conclusion makes Nemo in the