Sunday, January 20, 2013

Dark Comedy... Minus Any of the Comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_dgqfPXFg

The movie that I watched was the Butterfly Effect. More or less, it was about a young boy who had randomly-occurring blackouts during the extent of his youth, each day of which he writes about in a journal. Then, as a chance occurrence, he reads one of the entries and realizes that he can not only go back and "complete" these memories, but he can also actually change the course of events through his own conscious intervention.

This movie was a bit on the depressing side. That's actually an understatement. This was the type of movie in which the character creates an almost endless loop of dramatic irony because while they attempt to do things (in this case, change the past) for benevolent purpose, they create a different set of cataclysmic circumstances that the audience is more than privy to. Despite the lack of any type of actual humor within the content, the movie was certainly a good one. And, unlike many other movies involving the idea of time travel, it tied up the loose ends in a concise fashion.

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