The special feature of "Arrival" is not this question, "If you knew your whole life, from birth to death, at a glance, would you try to change it?"
It is the attitude towards asking questions: no regrets.
In the theme of time travel, we see too much regret. People try to change the past and influence the future through time travel and external science fiction power.
But "Arrival" is a completely different logic.
I already knew everything about the future, including my tragic fate, but I made the same choice and even pushed that fate to happen.
Accept it willingly, don't make changes, be sad, but don't regret it.
This kind of sadness and bravery, I didn't feel anything at the time when I saw it, but I still feel shocked when I think about it again and again.
I especially like the loopy plot structure, like a snake biting its own tail.
The same is true for aliens, we need human help in 3000 years, so we are here to help humans now. Of course we know that in the process we will be attacked and lose our partners.
In nonlinear time, the past is the future, and the future is the present. The so-called fate is just a state of the existence of time.
This time, even the choice is not given.
In fact, it is also incomprehensible whether the choices they make voluntarily still come from free will.
The greatness of man lies in recognizing that he is just a button in the chain of fate and willing to accept it.
I thought and thought about this logic, and I still couldn't help but wonder: what's the point of it all if it's all looping like this?
But perhaps this is the nature of the universe.
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