The Butterfly Effect

In the final scene of the theatrical cut (not the director's cut), you can see a grown up 28-year-old Evan as a businessman walking out of a building, talking on his cell phone.

When he walks by a building, the reflection of a camera is seen moving on a tinted window.

When Evan first reads the journal entry about his childhood "movie" the writing on the page has random words scratched out.

When the words are shown close up, the scratches are gone.

When Even is telling Carlos to watch for scars and marks he does a hand gesture that shows the mark already on his hand When Evan writes the note under the doctor's desk, he has just moved the box containing the home movies to the floor in front of him.

After writing the note, he reaches forward and turns the projector on, but never sets it up.

Evan wakes up in the institution and gets down on the floor looking for his notebooks.

The shot of him on the floor shows his bed sheet and blanket hanging off the side of the bed making contact with the floor.

In the following shot the sheet and blanket are no longer hanging off the side.

When Evan is sitting with prostitute Kayleigh in the restaurant, Kayleigh looks through his wallet then sets it on the table.

In the next shot, the wallet has moved across the table.

When Evan first wakes up without arms, you can see small shadows not completely erased on the pillow from his "missing" right arm.

When Evan is asking for his journals, the doctor says they were made up by Evan to cope with the death of "Katie" Miller.

Her name is Kayleigh.

The note reading "I'LL COME BACK FOR YOU" changes.

Note the break between the top stroke of the I in I'LL and the apostrophe and no break in the bottom of the B of BACK the first time we see the note.

When we see the note in Kayleigh's grave there is no break on the top stroke of the I and there is a break in the bottom of the B.

There is also no red margin at the top of the first note.

This of course assumes the note put onto the grave is not symbolic, in that, he had kept the original rather than the deeper symbolism of how, for Evan, the entire story is about going back for Kayleigh.

When Evan is talking to the prostitute Kayleigh, a red lighter on the table disappears and reappears between shots.

Although this film is set in New York, there is a Canadian speed limit sign in one of the first shots in the movie as the camera pans across the street Evan lives on.

- PLOTAlthough he is not yet convicted of a crime, Evan is held in a penitentiary (he should be in a jail).

When Evan is in his dorm and the room is backwards, we see Evan's profile, but for a second, Evan turns around showing that the left side of his nose is about twice as big as it should be because of the prosthetic tube used to achieve the affect of a dripping nosebleed.

When Evan throws the fancy meal for Kayleigh, the flower in her hair repeatedly disappears and reappears between shots.

When Kayleigh, Tommy, Evan and Lenny are putting the block buster in the mailbox, Evan puts the cigarette on the block buster and says it should last Lenny 2 minutes, but his mouth says 10 minutes.

When Evan falls off the couch, after being hypnotized, there are some blood spots on the front of his shirt.

just before the scene is over, the blood spots are gone.

When Evan and his mother visit the fortuneteller in the Director's Cut, she says that Evan has no "lifeline" and should therefore not exist.

In the scene that follows where Evan and his mother sit outside the fortune-teller's Evan's "lifeline" is clearly visible in his palm.

When in the diner with prostitute Kayleigh, the slice of pie constantly changes direction when alternating between Evan and Kayleigh's shoulder views.

When Evan is talking to Kaleigh about her ever wondering what could've happened if they had gotten together (in the version in which Evan has no arms), Kaleigh offers him a granola bar.

He tries to grab it with his prosthetic hand, but he breaks it, making the bar fall to the floor.

A few seconds later he is holding the granola bar in his hand.

After the original mailbox incident scene, Evan's mother takes him to be hypnotized.

Both are wearing different clothing than they were right after the mailbox incident.

Evan then goes to the movies with Kayleigh and Tommy, who are also dressed differently than they were during the mailbox incident.

One would assume that by this time, it now a different day since Evan already has been to the doctor's and is now at the movies, and all the characters have changed clothing.

However, while they are at the movies, Evan's mother hears a television news report about the mailbox incident which states that the town was "rocked this afternoon in the wake of a horrible act of vandalism".

If the town was rocked 'this afternoon' then it would still be the same day as the mailbox incident.

It doesn't seem logical that everyone would have changed clothes and Evan would have had time to go the doctor, come back and then go to the movies all in the same day as the mailbox incident.

In the credits at the end, there is a name next to a character for "Evan at 3".

No where in either of the two cuts is an actor portraying Evan at three yrs.

When Evan's mom is having a miscarriage, the doctor removes the pillow from under her head, the next shot it's there again and then disappears in the next.

When Evan kills Tommy, the first few close-ups of Evan show almost no blood splatter (if any) on Evan's shirt and cheek, but in the last shot, when he is being dragged up by security, the blood splatter is very noticeable and prominent.

When Evan is in the wheelchair and talks to Kayleigh, his face is desaturated (see commentary track Director's Cut DVD).

The effect is visible when people pass behind Evan.

Their skin-tone changes when they walk through that desaturated part of the image.

When Evan was punching Tommy and killed him with a stick, Evan backed off a little and dropped the stick.

Then it showed him holding the stick again.

Then it showed him continuing to back off.

When Evan goes to burn his journals with his buddy in the large metal can, he pours the gasoline into the can and then sets down the gasoline right smack next to the can and proceeds to light the match and watch it go up in flames.

This clearly is a very dangerous move that could incite an explosion.

When Evan (at the age of 20) is sitting in his chair reading a journal after Kayleigh has just killed herself, he writes in his journal about his first time travel ("if I can make scars, do I have the power to heal them?").

Then he doesn't change the page, but when the journal is closed up, his note isn't there.

When Evan wakes up in the frat house, he goes to the toilet without taking his clothes from the room.

When he leaves the bathroom and the house he is all dressed up with the clothes he left in the room he woke up in.

Near the end of the movie when Kayleigh walks by Evan and recognizes him, she stops and turns around.

In the next shot, her back is facing Evan again and she turns around a second time.

When Evan reads his journal and goes back to where he and Kayleigh are making the Robin Hood movie in her father's basement so he can fix it.

While he is making his speech to her father about his decisions, during the entire monologue we can see a crew member standing in the back left mirror.

If you watch closely, you can see the crew members move.

When Evan's mother takes him to the psychiatrist to be hypnotized (after the mailbox incident) the blood on his face changes many times between shots.

When Evan comforts his mother outside of the Psychic's building, she confesses that she had 2 stillbirths before Evan was born, and she refers to Evan as her miracle baby.

When Evan is strangling himself in his mother's womb, we hear her say that she had 3 stillbirths before he was born, and she again refers to him as her miracle baby.

This is not a flashback, but rather a deliberate change explained by Eric Bress and J.

Mackye Grueber.

It is implied that the two previous miscarriages before Evan went through the same journey, and that Andrea is saying this to her new (future) child - a girl, who has broken the family "curse".

In the theatrical ending, Evan still has multiple journals though he has never met Kayleigh.

Redfield suggested that Evan start keeping journals after his mysterious drawing in class and not after his incident with Kayleigh and Tommy's father.

After the incident, Dr.

Redfield suggested that he meet his father - not keep his journals.

It's not unreasonable that he committed to keeping journals years after Dr.

Redfield asked him to (hence his interest in psychology).

Though the books would have been completely different, Evan's burning of them was symbolic and not literal.

- PLOTEvan asks his cell mate to look for his hands to proof that he can "time travel" he then travels back to when he was kid and stabbed his palms.

As a "proof" he now has marks in his hands.

But if he got those marks when he was a kid he would have had marks in his hands already when he went to jail (in that reality).

So the marks being there wouldn't have proved anything (to anyone but to Evan himself).

Lenny is traumatized in every reality for being the one that put the blockbuster in the mailbox, yet he is the well adjusted one who gets the girl in the reality that blew Evans arms off.

When Evan asks his mother if she brought the journals to him in jail, she holds up two, saying that she "only found these two.

" When the "sisters" knock the journals out of his hands, three journals fall to the floor.