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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:
I mean I thought that was how it worked in the book, and that asking a heptapod why they didn't change the future would be like them asking one of us why don't we change what we did three weeks ago- i.e. a total non sequitur because that's not how things work. And the emotional core of the movie with her daughter absolutely worked with that in mind. But I don't think that really caries over to rest of the film, because the entire plot hinges on Louise acting in the present based on extremely detailed information that she would likely only ever be in a position to acquire in the future if she took extremely specific actions predicated on having that information now. Calling General Chang is not a choice she would always make, because she would not have the information to make the same choice. In other words it's a closed causal loop where extremely valuable information arises from nothing, which means that either things are actually preordained, or that something like alternate timelines exists and it's possible to act upon causality to do things like create loops.
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