Re:Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet
by sateesh on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:10AM
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It is a good movie. But I feel the story it is based (from Ted Chiang) is superior. Some of the nuances in the story deals with (seeing life as a whole, inadequacy in conveying whole gamut of emotions, concepts in our day to day communication etc,) doesn't come out that well in the movie.
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Re:Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet
by deelly on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:51AM
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Interesting, I watched movie before reading the story, and personally I liked movie more. Story is different in narrative and in the conclusion.
Will be interesting to know is there a difference in a movie perception between peoples that read story first and people that come to movie without any idea what happens.
Re:Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet
by kkylin on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:56AM
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I guess this is one more data point: I read the story first, too, and liked it better than the film. The story ended with a certain ambiguity (in my mind, at any rate) that I took some time to think about, and which I enjoyed. The movie wrapped it all up a bit too neatly to my taste.
Re:Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet
by neilparikh on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:15PM
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I watched the movie first, but enjoyed the written story more (though I still thought the movie was great!). The big difference for me was the inclusion of the physics in the written story, and how it was connected to the linguistics.