How does the original story end?
Just curious because people have said the movie is based on a story
shareJust curious because people have said the movie is based on a story
shareRead it and find out https://mathisgasser.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ted-chiang_story-of-your-life_2000.pdf
shareYou could just answer the question instead of making people read 39 pages.
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While that could very well be true it's just polite to at least answer the question the person is asking. If they really do insist on reading the story they could put the ending under a spoiler tag.
shareSure, that'd be the normal response.
But you've been using the internet for at least a year now,
so you should be well aware that normalcy is the thing one least encounters online.
P.S.: The "story", and this movie, stink.
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Yea that was a waste full fast read. Now I Do hope the film changes things drastically.
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If you go to page 39, it says. "The End"
There you go. Happy to help.
Are you an SJW ? If so, please kill yourself immediately! Thanks
Dr. Louise Banks is enlisted by the military to communicate with a race of radially symmetrical aliens who initiated first contact with humanity. Woven through the story are remembrances of her daughter.
The heptapods have two distinct forms of language. Heptapod A is their spoken language, which is described as having free word order and many levels of center-embedded clauses. Understanding Heptapod B, the written language of the aliens, is central to the plot. Unlike its spoken counterpart, Heptapod B has such complex structure that a single semagram cannot be excluded without changing the entire meaning of a sentence.
When writing in Heptapod B, the writer knows how the sentence will end. The phenomenon of Heptapod B is explained by the alien's understanding of mathematics and Fermat's principle of least time.
Dr. Banks's understanding of the heptapods' writing system affects the way she perceives time and suggests a deterministic universe where free will is exercised by not affecting the outcome of events. This is reflected by the tense used in the story's writing: a small portion of the story, at the beginning and the end, is written in the present tense, indicating that the story is being written at the time of the daughter's conception. The sections describing the interactions with the Heptapods is written in the past tense. The sections describing the daughter's life—from birth to death and beyond—are written in the future tense, because learning Heptapod B enables Dr. Banks to know her daughter's entire life even before she agrees to conceive her.
Comes from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life
Well, you could've read the synopsis on Wikipedia.
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The Aliens just decide to go away, without giving any reasons, no deep observations on what they think they've learned, and without giving any indication as to whether or not they will return.
Of course the lady linguist now can retrieve past, present, and future memories thanks to her having learning (and of course, understanding) the alien's written language, which presents ideas in their complete temporal unfolding as a gestalt whole, and which has had the consequence of altering her thought processes.
She knows her daughter's (and her own) complete life before it's all happened, and there is some tragedy in that.