Human Nature

If you ask me the Butterfly Effect does a great job of showing human nature at it's rawest. It's Human Nature to want to change the past in order to try and make the future better. Everyone wants something more right? Evan acts on these urges and indulges himself in a little bit of time travel. Little did he know that he would completely alter how his life plays out by changing the past. Over time Evan begins to realize his power and realizes that he is able to change other peoples lives. Yet this power comes at a cost. It seems as though when Evan changes the past, something is always worse in the future. The first few times Evan does his little "trick" he does it in order to make other people's lives better. Eventually Evan started to use his power for his own greed.

Greed is another characteristic of human nature that is found in this movie. When he is in prison, he uses his ability to get out because he doesn't want to deal with the hardships and because he has ruined his relationship with Kayleigh. He wants to turn to a new reality to escape the one he was in. He uses his power for greed a second time in the life where he has no arms. Even though he had made Timmy a much better person, saved Lenny, and had helped many people he was unhappy because of the loss of his arms.

Yet he also used his power for other people. It's human nature to want to help others and change your past and future - as I said before. When he sees that his mom has lung cancer from smoking, he realized it was his fault. So yet again our heroine journey's back in time to change his mothers outcome.

If you ask me this entire movie is one giant journal on human nature and emotion.

Off topic - the ending of the movie was kinda cool- the fact that he wasn't supposed to be alive in the first place. Anyways gives a whole new meaning to the expression "better off dead."