The Butterfly Effect 蝴蝶效应
Evan Treborn has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial moments of his life have disappeared into a black hole of forgetting, his boyhood marred by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. What remains is the ghost of memory and the broken lives around him--the lives of his childhood friends, Kayleigh, Lenny and Tommy. Throughout his childhood, Evan was under the care of a psychologist who encouraged him to keep a journal, detailing the events of his day-to-day life. Now in college, Evan reads from one of his journals and finds himself thrust suddenly, inexplicably back in time. He comes to realize that the notebooks he keeps under his bed are a vehicle by which he can return to the past and reclaim his memories. But these recollections only leave Evan feeling responsible for the damaged lives of his friends, most crucially that of Kayleigh, his childhood sweetheart who he continued to love into adulthood. Determined to do something now that he was incapable of doing then, Evan purposely travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved ones these traumatic experiences.
伊万曾经有一个糟糕的童年,因为他的行为闯下了大祸,令他童年充满不堪回忆的往事。而事实上,他患有间歇性失忆症,确实只依稀记得一点可怕的情景,这些情景一直纠缠着他的正常生活。伊万接受心理学家建议,把琐碎生活记在记事本里,却偶然发现通过记事本回到过去。
这时他才清楚记起,童年时候的自己做了那么多的错事。他幻想着用现在的意识,潜入童年的身体,去弥补种种过失给人们带来的伤害,尤其是希望与当年暗恋的凯西最终走回一起。然而他一次次的跨越时空的更改,只能越来越招致现实世界的不可救药。一切就像蝴蝶效应般,牵一发而动全身。
推荐理由:“过去”——既想回忆又想忘记,每个人都有过光辉或者黑暗的过去,都会对现实产生无形的影响。然而过去已成现实,后悔已然晚矣。