Finished seeing the butterfly effect for the second time and i've completed my theory about how it SHOULD have ended.
WARNING: spoilers below
Well as we know the movie ends as kutcher goes back in time just one last time to stop it ALL from happening, and then we have our ****in' a' of a happy ending. More like a romantic ending that the average viewer would want and like. (by average viewer i mean the less sophisticated one). According to this ending, kutcher's illness is NOT just in his mind and he actually CAN go back in time, change everything etc'
The ending should have been (according to me)
The Doc tells kutcher that he made up an a mental illness that does not exist. NOTHING of what he wrote in his journals ever existed (only in his mind ofcourse). And that those were only alternate universes created to fictate a reality in which kalleigh does not die. *END*
(the doc ever telling him to write a journal is also kutcher's fiction)
This would denote that the scene mentioned should have been grand and would make kind of a catharsis, much like how memento ended, sorta.
This would cause everything to make senes, since now all the time jumps never occured, thus they couldn't be argued about, saying that "time jumping" is a contradiction in term. (the endless discussion about how time jumping can't make sense whatsoever in this movie).
This ending is probably sadder, and might make the average viewer feel bad about the movie, but thats the way I think it should have ended.
On the other hand, you could also say that kutcher's last jump is also a fiction of his imagintion, making the last bit also logical. Happy ending that is, too bad it didn't really took place.
My main point: the only world that ever did exist is the world in which he is in the loony bin and he CAN'T alter history at all, well only in his mind.
Well as we know the movie ends as kutcher goes back in time just one last time to stop it ALL from happening, and then we have our ****in' a' of a happy ending. More like a romantic ending that the average viewer would want and like. (by average viewer i mean the less sophisticated one). According to this ending, kutcher's illness is NOT just in his mind and he actually CAN go back in time, change everything etc'
The ending should have been (according to me)
The Doc tells kutcher that he made up an a mental illness that does not exist. NOTHING of what he wrote in his journals ever existed (only in his mind ofcourse). And that those were only alternate universes created to fictate a reality in which kalleigh does not die. *END*
(the doc ever telling him to write a journal is also kutcher's fiction)
This would denote that the scene mentioned should have been grand and would make kind of a catharsis, much like how memento ended, sorta.
This would cause everything to make senes, since now all the time jumps never occured, thus they couldn't be argued about, saying that "time jumping" is a contradiction in term. (the endless discussion about how time jumping can't make sense whatsoever in this movie).
This ending is probably sadder, and might make the average viewer feel bad about the movie, but thats the way I think it should have ended.
On the other hand, you could also say that kutcher's last jump is also a fiction of his imagintion, making the last bit also logical. Happy ending that is, too bad it didn't really took place.
My main point: the only world that ever did exist is the world in which he is in the loony bin and he CAN'T alter history at all, well only in his mind.