I presume some of you have seen it. It's an excellent movie in my opinion. I think it holds some insight into how to understand Q's posts, the concept of future proves past is huge, the language is shaped like clocks and/or Q's. It involves non-linear thought. I'm too tired right now to break it down too much but maybe some others who have seen it want to chime in cause it definitely feels like there's something there.
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Its a good movie but ONLY because of the language aspect. As someone who read the book that spawned the movie its amazing to me how much of the story they cut out. Its amazing to me because the book is a collection of short stories that share the theme of "higher entity sharing information" the story that 'the arrival' tells is only one of those stories so i really really dont understand why they cut out so much stuff when it was not necessary to do so.
TLDR: read the book not the movie, significantly 500% better story
Oh that's interesting.
Yeah, and the arrival wasnt even the most interesting story for me. The top 3 for me were "the clay automoton story", "the arrival", and "the smart pill story". Life, language, super intelligence. In that order. Amazing book that will change your state of mind while youre reading it.
Less for u/starseed and more for those interested:
To be clear, it's a short story titled "Story of Your Life" from an anthology of a similar name (Author: Ted Chiang). Good story, although it's been a while since I read it.
The movie added things and excluded others, but I thought the point of it was authentic to the original story. It delves into this idea of language and "fate" / "determinism". In the end, you get the feeling both free will and fate are inextricably intertwined. For those who've studied Sapir-Whorf and Chomskian linguistic theory (blegh), both the story and movie are fantastic thought-provokers.
Thank you for this, its been a long time since i read it so i diddnt remember any of these details
That's always the case because a screenplay is usually 120 pages or less {one page equates to roughly one minute screen time}
The best way to fix this? Watch the movie first. Then read the book to enhance the experience.
Unless of course you read the book well before the movie came out, in which case, you're beat.