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danielrm26 — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:27:37 -0000

I think he was an angel -- definitely. And at the end, the girl could see him for some reason, and she knew he was reshaping time. He wasn't supposed to fix the doll, but he did anyway -- out of pure kindness.

It was awesome.

Re: The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:24:44 -0000

I was thinking that this DJ was an angel.

Think about it.

He's dropped unceremoniously from the sky....
His tools of the craft follow the same....
He alters the deterministic machinery of a situation...?

It's basically a device for touring the mind of God, pardon such language on an atheist site.

First you're introduced to the determinism ( the butterfly effect ), that you can skew primary events, but that they have to play out ( i.e. no teleporting the gangsters to Tibet, etc. ) and then the play is run back and forth and back and forth.

I thought that the broken doll at the end should have been left broken. In the world where great calamities are avoided, invariably a few tiny things might fall apart and we, as humans, must learn to accept a bit of loss as the side effect of meddling supernatural agents making the world in a macro sense, better.

Re: The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube

davis — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:54:32 -0000

That was a very well put together movie.

The whole butterfly effect message is a definite gateway towards discussion and debate. Thanks for posting a link to that.

Re: The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube

CarlM — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:36:42 -0000

Nice piece. Would be a great launching point for a discussion.

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Richard Neal — Sat, 05 May 2007 11:58:17 -0000

Woah.