This may have been posted on here already, my apologies if it has, but did any one else think of a possible correlation
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Arrival
akersw — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 04:56 AM)
This may have been posted on here already, my apologies if it has, but did any one else think of a possible correlation between Arrival and the Vonnegut novel, Slaughterhouse-Five? In both, aliens teach humanity that our perception of time is not, for lack of a better word, "correct', and teach humans not only that time is in fact non-linear, but how to actually view it in this way. Just thought that was some interesting food for thought!
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DarthJarJar — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 09:16 AM)
Yes, it definitely has some similarities and I wouldn't be surprised if the story was infleunced by the novel, but they are completely different stories. They certainly both deal with free will and non-linear time but Slaughterhouse-Five was more satirical while Arrival is more dramatic. It's just a case where two different stories have the same themes but tell a story in different ways.
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