The Butterfly Effect

Trivia: An alternate ending to the film on the DVD Director's cut has Evan going back to when he was in the womb and killing himself by squeezing the umbilical cord to save his friends from events he may cause.

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Trivia: The main character's full name is Evan Treborn. This is very close to "event reborn", which sums up the point of the movie.

Trivia: When Evan is a frat boy and sees his jacket on the ground before Tommy arrives,. the arms are folded exactly the way his arms are blown up later.

Trivia: The prisoners in the prison scenes of the movie were real-life criminals. The directors decided to use 125 real criminals in the prison they were shooting at to add a level of realism. This is in the DVD special features.

Trivia: The name of the film comes from the Ray Bradbury novel "A sound of thunder" a time travel book.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: When Evan and his mom go to the psychic for a reading, the position of the money in the glass bowl differs depending on camera angle. (Director's cut) (00:40:30)

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Quotes

Jason Treborn: You can't change who people are without destroying who they were.

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Questions

Question: I'm guessing that Evan can travel back to "memories" an infinite amount of times as he has been to the junkyard and the basement memories at least twice, but what I don't get is why, after he saw the horrible repercussions of giving Lenny the shard which led to the psychotic brother's death, why didn't Evan just NOT give Lenny the shard, but still give the bro the moving motivational speech that made him rethink the burning of the dog? Then the dog would be safe and the bro wouldn't be killed traumatically, damaging Kaylee? Why didn't he keep that bit that seemed to work out, but not give Lenny the weapon?

Answer: The point of the movie was that, no matter what he did and how he tried to change things, they always ended up bad. If he went back and did that, something unforseen would have happened to make things terrible. Evan realized that everything bad that happened to them was because of him. He then decided the only safe way to make things right is if he just took himself out of their lives all together. That's the logic the filmmakers went by, if you don't want to accept that, then you will just have to consider it a plot hole.

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