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The flutter of a butterfly in the East can cause hurricanes in the West.
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..to get anything out of it. Rapid movement of crude animated images expressing chaos theory: a butterfly flaps its wings somewhere which triggers a chain of events leading to a huge war. Good experiment by director Brumm, there's something here for him to work with. Great soundtrack.
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