Movie / Film
A Festival to celebrate the iconic monarch and other butterflies gets an early start at King’s Theatre with the screening of the 2004 thriller The Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect refers to the idea that the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately change the course of a tornado or storm half a world away. In the film, the butterfly effect is symbolic; over time, minor and seemingly inconsequential actions in the past can have radical and unexpected effects on the present and the main characters!
Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who suffered severe traumas as a boy, blacks out frequently, often at moments of high stress. While searching for an answer to heal his emotional wounds, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child.
There are consequences of his choices, however, that he then propagates back to the present; his alternate futures vary from frat boy to prisoner to amputee. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes have unintended consequences.
Change one thing, change everything. Such minor changes, such tremendous consequences. This theme has been explored in movies as far back as 1946 in the classic It’s A Wonderful Life, and continued with Back to the Future, Brazil, Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run and Frequency.
Show your support for the work carried on by the Mersey Tobiatic Research Institute around butterfly species preservation and help us kick start the September 12-13 Butterfly Festival.
Movie - 113 Minutes
Rated R
A Festival to celebrate the iconic monarch and other butterflies gets an early start at King’s Theatre with the screening of the 2004 thriller The Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect refers to the idea that the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately change the course of a tornado or storm half a world away. In the film, the butterfly effect is symbolic; over time, minor and seemingly inconsequential actions in the past can have radical and unexpected effects on the present and the main characters!
Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who suffered severe traumas as a boy, blacks out frequently, often at moments of high stress. While searching for an answer to heal his emotional wounds, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child.
There are consequences of his choices, however, that he then propagates back to the present; his alternate futures vary from frat boy to prisoner to amputee. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes have unintended consequences.
Change one thing, change everything. Such minor changes, such tremendous consequences. This theme has been explored in movies as far back as 1946 in the classic It’s A Wonderful Life, and continued with Back to the Future, Brazil, Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run and Frequency.
Show your support for the work carried on by the Mersey Tobiatic Research Institute around butterfly species preservation and help us kick start the September 12-13 Butterfly Festival.
Movie - 113 Minutes
Rated R
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: $8
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