The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical situation which illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time.

Kutcher plays 20-year-old college student Evan Treborn, with Amy Smart as his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh Miller, William Lee Scott as her sadistic brother Tommy, and Elden Henson as their neighbor Lenny. Evan finds he has the ability to travel back in time to inhabit his former self (that is, his adult mind inhabits his younger body) and to change the present by changing his past behaviors. Having been the victim of several childhood traumas aggravated by stress-induced memory losses, he attempts to set things right for himself and his friends, but there are unintended consequences for all. The film draws heavily on flashbacks of the characters' lives at ages 7 and 13, and presents several alternative present-day outcomes as Evan attempts to change the past, before settling on a final outcome.

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Now to me if there was ever to be a possibility of time travel, the depiction of being able to go back into ones own past seems to be the most plausible. How many of us have been drawn back through our lost memories by smells, sounds or taste?

A smell, sound or taste seems to be able to open an unlocked door which we never remembered was there. Just recently, Our lass has been using a creamier milk which I sampled on my breakfast, which took me straight back to when my Nanna made me breakfast as a toddler. The smell of cooking burgers reminding me of car boots I used to go to in my 20's. The sound of glass milk bottles clinking returning me to my child hood and looking out the window in the winter time watching the milkman deliver the milk to our street.

Folks may say these are just memories, but what if through those electrical impulses you were able to connect to a specific moment? What if you could, (as they do in the film) Tell someone, something prolific from the future, or try to change an event they have lived through?

Physical time travel may seem a much more difficult proposition. But the ability to interact with a past former self, or even manipulate or change an action from the past, has a much more credible chance I believe. As much as any credibility can be given to the subject of time travel. But then again, to me the belief that time travel can be a possibility can be no less a belief than someone may have, in a higher being controlling their lives and following such a way religiously. Can either option be crazier than the other?

So let me know of those times when smells, sounds or tastes have driven you back into the past.