posted June 10, 2006 07:55 PM         

Sometimes the greatest love you can give is let go.

This idea makes me in pain sometimes, but the film's ending is just powerful. Of course, there are lots of other things worth noticing...what about you guys? What do you think of the movie?

posted June 10, 2006 08:12 PM         

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

posted June 10, 2006 09:17 PM         

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

posted August 03, 2006 10:46 AM         

I think one crucial aspect I learned from watching "The Butterfly Effect" is that- the film industry is REALLY CRUEL to children. I'm talking about the child actors. Of course, I had noticed that many of the scenes and lines in "The Butterfly Effect" were very violent, AND the child actors in the movie HAD to say them (or perform those violent acts, witness the violence "created" by the crew). I thought about some other films, some other things as well. I thought about "Superman Returns", which I have seen 4 times in the movietheater so far. The boy who played Jason had to watch many things, while doing his own scenes or anytime on the set (incorrect English again? Sorry ). I thought about the little girl who made an appearance at the beginning of the film when Lex Luther (played by the brilliant Kevin Spacey) hands his wig to her, and her character has to scream in horror...the filmmakers make the kids do things in movies, and many of them obviously "do them well"- but how did their performances generate? The more I think of it, the sicker I feel and the deeper my heart sinks.

Natalie Portman made it big with her debut in "Leon/The Professional" when she was 11, and she cited that after "Leon", she encountered turmoil at school.

I also recall Drew Barrymore, who, at a very tender age, shot to stardom with her performance in "E.T."; her not-that-famous actress mother became her agent, the two of them fought an awful lot, her childhood was robbed by filmmaking, she was mocked by her peers at school and even her teacher called her stupid once...and she started having problems with alcoholism, drug abuse and so on BEFORE she reached adolescence...she co-wrote all these experiences in "Little Girl Lost" with Todd Gold (though she completed most of the memoir herself) and published it when she was only 14...