10 Psychological Thrillers That Genuinely Mess With Your Head
5. The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect is one of the world's most famous things for people to mess their heads up on and think about. Descending from chaos theory, the butterfly effect revolves around the belief that even the smallest changes to state and conditions can lead to some pretty serious bouts of change and carry with it considerable repercussions.
The 2004 film of the same name stars Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart and revolves around how tiny decisions can lead to huge unforeseen circumstances. The film follows Evan Treborn, a 20-year old student with the power to travel back in time to earlier points in his life, with his adult mind still in tact, and make changes to his life in the future. Naturally, these decisions have repercussions on the state of things for Evan and his friends in the present day however.
The premise of the film and the butterfly effect on the whole is something that audiences could spend hours thinking over, and the film is stacked full of different choices and moments that could go in so many different ways, that it takes some time for everything to fully process.