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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3991630" data-attributes="member: 3649">The alternate ending to Butterfly Effect.[sblock]In case you haven't seen the movie, our hero has the ability to travel back in time by inhabiting his own body at a younger age, the approximate time controlled through concentration on notebook entries. He tries to change things to make life better for the girl he loves, but every time his effect on the timestream means that something worse happens to someone else so he keeps trying to go back and fix things further and further back. For instance he keeps her father from abusing her but that means that he heaps all his abuse on her brother, who goes to prison; he gets out and attacks our hero, who kills him by accident and so winds up in prison for life. And that's the least of the bad things that happen.In the original ending, he gives up and fixes it so they never fell in love in the first place. They pass each other on the street in the present and hesitate, then go about their lives. Both of them have a good life, but their love is gone.The alternate ending is vastly more powerful. Using his dad's film of his own birth, he goes back to just before he is born and kinks his umbilical cord, killing himself. His mother is devestated, but she recovers when she adopts the girl he would have fallen in love with and her brother. They grow up to have happy, normal well-adjusted lives, as does the kid who would have been his best friend (who usually ends up in a mental hospital in the other versions of the present). Basically, it's a reverse 'It's a Wonderful Life': the only way for everyone to have a happy ending is if he is never born in the first place.Very powerful ending and one that has stayed with me for a long time.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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