***Spoilers
Alert***
This is
another time-travelling / altering fate story. Evan Treborn one day realizes
that he has the ability to go back in time by reading his teenage journals. He
travels back in time to moments which he has memory blackouts. He uses the
opportunity to try to save his childhood sweetheart from a tragic life. But
each time he changes the past, he finds that the future is changed into
something that he doesn't like. For example, he ends up in a prison or he loses
his leg. Finally, in the director's cut, Evan chooses to commit suicide inside
his mother's womb because he thinks that the best thing for his childhood
sweetheart and the world is that he was not born.
This is a
radical plot. In Doraemon's time travelling, things usually gets better but not
worse. But in this story, the more travelling to the past, the worse is the
future. That sucks. Evan's mother reveals that she has several miscarriages. It
hints to Evan that his elder brothers and sisters also committed suicide. It is
a horrible conclusion that the non-existence of the protagonist is the resolution.
This is a really dark story.
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