The Butterfly Effect is a movie that is based on the idea that the main character Evan Treborn has a disorder called Dissociative Amnesia. I however believe that it may play a part but is not the main diagnosis for Evan. I believe that Evan has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and the way that the movie is played out is the way that Evan sees his changing in personalities. The movie goes from his main personality as Evan who is a boy without a father, has a quite a few traumatic events in his youth yet grows up to a successful college student, until one night one night he reads from a journal and it takes him back to his childhood, and changes the outcome of his next “life”. I believe that when he reads the journal it is him transforming …show more content…
There are six distinct personalities that can be seen with in the movie and every time that Evan “goes back” I believe that he is transitioning into a different personality. Throughout the movie Evan also talks about how he at times doesn’t even know himself. The first Evan that is showing in the movie is what is assumed to be the actual “Evan”, who is pre-flash back, and after all of the childhood trauma he went to college and was going for a psychology degree emphasis in memory loss where he had a good rapport. After seeing Kayleigh, and then finding out that she killed herself, that is when Evan decides to “go back”. This is when we meet “Evan 2” when Evan goes back to the time of when he was forced into making the porno and tells Kayleigh’s dad off. When Evan wakes up he is now a Frat guy, dating Kayleigh, and not teachers didn’t remember who he is. Evan is the only one that feels out of place, people around think that he is just being weird. One of the big examples of character change is when he is interacting with the pledges, he becomes cold and harsh which is not in his typical personality. Kayleigh even tells Evan that “your accents change, you don’t even walk the same way, and the dinner was nice but it wasn’t even you” (Bress. E). After an unfortunately event Evan is in prison which is when he goes back again to when Crockett died and …show more content…
REDFIELD It kills me to have to go through this again. There are no journals. There never were. It 's part of this fantasy world your mind created to cope with the guilt of killing... Evan looks stunned. Refusing to believe