The Butterfly Effect——完全的震撼

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2014/11/30，Thanksgiving假期結束，從Boston回Ithaca的車上看完。
本來我是一個非常缺乏耐心的人，能一口氣看下來的電影基本都是在電影院裡被圈在座位上看的，還得忽略睡著的時間。但是這部電影的精彩讓人不知不覺就一口氣看完。
非常震撼，一開始雲裡霧裡，就在我快要再次喪失耐心的時候，我漸漸就參透了導演精彩絕妙的構思。
Real genius.

As I was watching the rest of the movie, I took a minute to reflect on ourselves. We have all said so many regrets about the things we had already done, because we believe that things would turn out to be better, because we were blindly confident that we know how to get things going the way we want once we've had an experience of messing them up. It suddenly occurred to me that this is only too naive. All we know is simply how things would NOT work out, but we can't really be sure what WOULD.
Evan happened to share this naiveté. He struggled to fix things up using his inherited talent. However, all he had done was to desperately go further and further back. When he fails to fix one thing, he traces to the source and try to fix that one, and trace back and back.
But life is unpredictable. That's what life was supposed to be like isn't it? Evan tried to play God, but he could only regret and regret and start over and over till the very beginning -- his birth.

這世上本來就沒有後悔藥。某一個人在過去某一個時間點的一點點改變都會被蝴蝶效應放大，影響整個群體的走向。這又讓我想到了那句「塞翁失馬，焉知非福」。後悔和哀嘆已經發生的事都是於事無補的，一個「假如當時…就好了」又會牽連出無窮無盡的「假如」，直到最後變成「it would be best if nothing had ever started in the very beginning"。既然如此，何必不拋下對於過去的種種幻想和未經實踐的盲目自信，去努力做好還來得及做好的事情呢？所謂「盡人事，聽天命」，也是一種大智慧。