![]() This is how the original story describes them: Not all of an alien, but here’s a bit of one: If Arrival does nothing but get you to watch Sicario, and then read Ted Chiang, it will have still have justified its own existence. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, and it’s tense as hell. For starters, it was directed by Denis Villeneuve, who gave us the amazing Sicario, a movie I like to call "Emily Blunts Really Needs a Cigarette" but I don’t often joke about Sicario because whenever it’s on I’m too busy being stunned by how good it is in general, but it also looks amazing. Wait, do you think the movie will be bad? If Arrival does nothing outside of introduce more people to Ted Chiang, it will still have justified its own existence. So my advice? Buy the book, read the story and enjoy the movie and story as two different things. The movie looks like a major departure from the source material. It’s a beautiful story, but also relatively small in scope. The story has aliens, sure, but it’s about how we perceive time and language. I can say I purchased this collection of Ted Chiang’s work last night and read "Story of Your Life" in one sitting and cried at the ending. That’s a good question, and I can’t answer it since I have not seen the movie. ![]() ![]() Should I read the story? Will it spoil the movie? ![]() We’re talking about Arrival, which is a 2016 movie based on the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. ![]()
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