Butterfly Effect "this is one of those shows that keeps you thinking about it...." --- Louise Chew i cannot agree more. ashton kutcher stars in butterfly effect as a young man with a slight mental disorder - he would blank out suddenly and forget everything he did before that. his childhood was traumatizing - father with the same condition, best friend (later turned girlfriend) gets molested by her own father, screwed up violent friend etc. when he grew up, he had the ability to "go back to the past" just by reading his journals that he has kept with him since the age of seven....however everytime he "returns to the future" which was also the present. it would always be different. which means that everytime he goes back to the past something slightly different happened which would change his future ENTIRELY. he managed to change his future about four times....however each time, there was just something wrong. in the same situation where he was part of college's fraternity, he would end up in prison later for killing someone. or in the situation where he was doing really well in school, his best friend/girlfriend from the past would commit suicide. he later found out a way to salvage the whole situation...and ultimately save "her". this was his last resort as he awaits being put into the "hopeless-cases" institution the next day. he went back to the past to the time he first met her when he was seven. and instead of shyly standing there and letting her kiss him gently on his cheek. he whispers "i hate u. i dont ever want to noe you" into her ear. the future was then perfect. well. i guess its a story of some kinda twisted fate. in a way i wished it was like that for me. somethings shld never have happened. so that somethings wouldnt be the way it is now. complexed? ya i think so. just gotta watch it to understand.