This one is not so good at the first one, but it’s ok. The protagonist in the first movie(Butterfly Effect) changes his life again and again to save the life of those people he loved. However, things never get right. At last, he kills himself to avoiding facing the life. But Nick in the second movie(Butterfly Effect 2) changes his life largely due to his own ambition. He is searching for a better life in his expectation, but just to make things worse again and again. First he changes the result of the traffic accident to save the life of Julie, his girlfriend. But when they lived "happily together", he wants a better job and a better life. When he changes his life to gain this, he loses Julie as a price.
The first one in a sense is a man who can’t control his own fate, and it’s full of pessimistic tone, for no matter how hard Evan tries to change his life, he can’t avoid the tragedies in life. He wants a peaceful life, but he fails. The second one is the man tempted by his own desires, and a coward who doesn't dare to face the problems in life. He thinks other kinds of life would be better than the present one. Both of the movies are tragedies, but in different senses.
The second might seem more real to us, for Nick is a reflection of us. Does others’ lifes really better than ourselves? It’s hard to say. One sentence in Zhuangzi might be a wise explanation to such a situation: 人有能游，且得不游乎；人而不能游，且得游乎？It means that if you are not happy in one situation, for instance, in school, then you will not find happiness in another place, e.g. in a company. For in another place you might find other problems.
I don’t dare to say that everyone’s life is a tragedy, but I’m sure that everyone’s life is full of problems of his own.
By the way, we can access to wikipedia at last. I'm so happy!
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I saw an advertisement for the Butterfly Effect 2, and just decided to avoid it. We get a lot of movies in America that are just remakes with a "2" slapped on the end.
I'm so glad that you can access Wikipedia again! Free knowledge ahoy! :)
I just read this on Wikipedia (apologies for the length):
Beginning from October 10, 2006, conflicting reports came in from different parts of China about a possible lifting of the block. The first report of a change was by a blogger in Liuzhou, Guangxi, who posted his finding to an online forum at about 6 pm on October 10, 2006, Beijing Time.[1] However, access appears to differ depending on location and internet service provider as a result of more fine-grained blocking. According to initial reports by bloggers within China, China Netcom residential DSL in Beijing allowed access to English Wikipedia but denied access to Chinese Wikipedia. Meanwhile China Telecom DSL in Shanghai allowed access to both, as did CETC-CHINACOMM Communications Co., Ltd in Beijing. Various providers in Anhui blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia but not to the English edition.[2] Posters to the Slashdot online forum who stated that they were in Beijing further noted that while they could access the English language version of the article on Tiananmen Square, which includes a brief description of the 1989 protests, the article Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remained blocked.[3] There was a similar report that the article democracy is available on English Wikipedia, while Falun Gong is unavailable.[4] In contrast, Reporters Without Borders stated on 12 October that English Wikipedia appeared entirely unblocked, including the article on the 1989 protests, but that the Chinese language version was unaccessible for most Chinese. The advocacy organization criticized the government shift as meant "to appease its critics abroad while continuing to censor the information available to its own population," while congratulating "those in charge of Wikipedia, especially Jimmy Wales".[5]"
How much of Wikipedia are you able to view?
Thank you for letting me know this. In fact, I don't think we'll access to the whole wikipedia when I heard about the lifting of the block. I know my government well. But what I care most is wikipedia as a good friend and a useful assistant for me. Talked about those articles related to sensitive political topics, people who really want to know it can find it in other places. People who don't want to know it will not lose anything due to the block of the single website.
Just to satisfy my curiosity, I check it up. Everything goes just as my expectation.
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