Sometimes people think that they understand, but it may not be true, such as the butterfly effect.
The film "Butterfly Effect" was also born from the simplest understanding of the butterfly effect, and it was narrated and figuratively expressed to produce a movie that looks quite brain-burning and quite advanced.
Actually, many people, including directors, actors, and movie viewers, have all misinterpreted the butterfly effect.
"Butterfly Effect" tells that Ivan, who has amnesia, experienced a terrible childhood. Under the advice of a psychiatrist, Ivan formed the habit of keeping a diary and wrote down everything he experienced.
grew up and became a college student majoring in psychology. During an affair, his girlfriend wanted to read his diary. He accidentally discovered that when he read these childhood diaries again, the forgotten parts became clearly visible, and the clearer details returned to his mind. In a flashback of
, he changed the details of his childhood, his life changed, and the fate of his friends also changed. But every change is not what he wants, so he keeps changing the past through his diary, but either his mother is terminally ill, or his girlfriend has become a "stumbled woman", or he has his hand and foot broken, or is thrown into prison .
This is the interpretation and graphic expression of the "butterfly effect" in the movie.
"A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas a month later." This is the most cited quote by the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz, but he submitted it in 1963 The paper written to the New York Academy of Sciences is another version: a seagull flaps its wings enough to change the weather forever. The
butterfly format is a more vivid version later mentioned by Edward Lorenz in his speech, because it is easy to remember and spread, and the butterfly version was also changed in subsequent papers.
People often use the butterfly effect to describe small events that lead to major events. One day they went out and forgot to bring their car keys, thus avoiding a car accident; or because they could not find the car keys, they took public transportation and caught up with a sudden car accident .
But objectively speaking, this concept is wrong. Small things do not lead to big things, but the system in which small things exist makes big things happen.
People often use the "domino effect" to describe a series of things that happen immediately after an event. Those who have watched a large-scale domino domino show will marvel at the shocking effect of the fall of the first domino. Especially when challenging the Guinness World Records, more than 3.4 million dominoes fell in sequence within 30 minutes. The scene is spectacular .
However, dominoes are just a good proof that one small thing happens and does not necessarily cause another thing to happen. Increase the distance between the two dominoes, so that one domino can't be knocked down, and the other dominoes cannot be knocked down. The scene where the dominoes fall one after another will not happen. The detail of
shows that the arrangement of the dominoes caused the continuous fall of dominoes, not that the fall of the first domino would inevitably cause the fall of the last domino. The way the dominoes are arranged is a system, and it is a very dangerous linear system.
should be held accountable not who pushed the first domino, but who put the domino like this. Similarly, if a butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane, it is not the crime of butterfly flapping its wings, but the crime of hurricane formation. If
is reversed, there are tens of thousands of variable factors that affect the hurricane formation system. Whether the butterfly flaps its wings or not is only one of them. While the butterfly flaps its wings, the other tens of thousands of factors also occur at the same time or in a linear order to cause a Hurricane. Strictly speaking, for such a huge nonlinear system, there is only possibility, and the probability of its occurrence is close to zero.
The story presented in the movie "Butterfly Effect" involves changes in the fate of different people, which is a nonlinear system. For a nonlinear system, changing or not changing something in the protagonist Ivan’s childhood does not lead to other people’s lives. , Destiny will change accordingly, because there are too many factors that determine the development of this large system of society, and there will be no fundamental changes due to the small things like you bombing your neighbor’s mailbox.
People are often biased by the classic description of the "butterfly effect": a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane, and the meaning of the text is often overwhelmed by the contrast between the butterfly and the hurricane. People can easily remember it as a butterfly flapping its wings. hurricane. In fact, this description is a kind of systematicCapability, not inevitability, although the chances of this possibility happening are slim. The most important word in this statement is not butterfly, cause, hurricane, but the one that you overlooked [can]. The
butterfly effect speaks of possibility, not inevitability, and what is shown in the "Butterfly Effect" film is a small detail change that will inevitably lead to a big difference in the operation of society. This is unscientific. Of course, as long as the film is good-looking, It is art rather than science.
