Please forgive me for probably asking this for the hundredth time.
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Insomniatic102 — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 01:51 AM)
Well she is pretty much the world's greatest linguist. She's going to have a big head start on the language than everyone else, including him. Maybe she told him before he learned enough to see it himself, to make it easier? I dunno. It's probably much harder than we think. Not like learning Chinese, which many people just can't do, at least not without years.
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Rhythm_Rider — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 06:26 AM)
Agreed that Ian's knowledge of the language was never going to be as sophisticated as Louise's, however he does make that big discovery (towards the end) implying that his understanding was greater than we initially thought.
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RookDragonwolf — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 06:09 PM)
My question is, since she now knows the future that Ian and her would be together, that they would have a daughter who would die of a tragic disease, does she tell him all this before they start their relationship? He definitely deserves to know. And he has a right to make a choice to rather continue or not. It's not her decision alone to decide to continue knowing what would happen.
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LinkinSixEcho — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 08:43 PM)
I think the aliens did give Ian the tools he needed to decode their language in a way that was understandable to him.
After Louise's comprehension and increasing sophistication at written language, they presented Ian with the same informationtime travelin mathematical form, which he solved ("it's .08333!") when Louise was taking a snoozer.
He just didn't get a chance to go any further since he was shoved out the pod andetc.
I also agree he was a pretty nice guyso why would he give his terminal daughter a broken home? Obviously he was pissed Louise hadn't consulted him on making a cancer baby, so maybe he felt her secret decision was
so
selfish as to be actually quite coldly calculating? Perhaps at her revelation he was staring into the eyes of a desperate woman who only needed his sperm to fill a void, that any love they shared was a sham.
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StrangerTheHorse — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 06:58 AM)
Granted, his character is not super well fleshed out, but I don't feel he would abandon both of them. He seemed like a genuinely good man.
"Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like."
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LinkinSixEcho — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 12:48 PM)
Not in the Dr. Who sense, no there's no time travel.
But who's to say the ability to perceive various points in a person's future isn't a kind of travel of consciousness? As Louise is "remembering" (flash-forwarding) her encounter with the Chinese general, her body (and brain) does not physically move from the spot where she's sitting; her mind does, however, wander.
Recollection, or recalling an event to memory, is basically reconstructing a scene from the various thought bits stored at the time of the event. In order for Louise to have recalled a memory from her future, it might be argued those infinitesimal bits that make up the future recollection are actually time traveling
from
the future to her present brain.
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doorclosed321 — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 01:48 PM)
Untrue. When she meets the general she is not remembering anything, she is experiancing both points simultaneously, fully living breathing them. She is experiancing 2 point in her existance together. You are right her body doesn't move, that would be time travel.
In the book explains she can conciously experiance her entire existence simultaneously, but from the human perspective she can't doit for a long "time" and it requires great effort.
The only thing she remebered she did in those two scenes is where in her life that general gave that number, everything else was her living her life in 2 places at once. She wasn't time traveling, she was accessing her infinite self. She can't go back "in time" and meet dinosaurs for instance, that would be time travel. Two very different things