The movie The Butterfly Effect is an American psychological thriller. The title is a reference to the butterfly effect which is a metaphor that encapsulates the idea that if one were to make small changes while going back to the past, the resulting changes to the present would be large and various. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) suffered severe tramas as a boy and teenager. He would often black out during moments of high stress. While in his dorm room reading one of his journals to a girl, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travles back in time and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child. There are consequences for the changes he makes. He gets brain damage from all the new memories that are formed when he makes the small changes in the past and he soon realizes albeit his intentions are good, bad things begin to happen.
I chose this movie is because it relates to our class very well. In this movie, Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has a disorder. He suffers from severe tramas that causes him to black out. this relates to Chapter 14, Psychological Disorders and the section I would categorize this is 14.6, Dissociative Disorders: Altered Consciousness.
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