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Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by bawolff on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:03PM (#38983964)
I really like the movie, but i think it did lose some of the soul of the short story.

The short story is essentially a story about grief using time travel as a metaphor but not actually having time travel in it. The movie has the character changing the past in a critical moment which kind of undermines the whole soul of the story imo.

To be clear, i still think arrival is a great movie, just rather different from the source material in terms of meaning and "soul"

Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by zerocrates on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:08PM (#38985120)
There's no actual time travel or changing the past in Arrival.
Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by bawolff on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:59PM (#38987002)
The phone call scene with the general is heavily implied to rely on prescient knowledge of the future