He understands this, and gives her a transcript of what she said to him, from his point of view, in the past, so she calls him in what >
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> we see as the present, just before he's about to nuke the aliens, and tells him not to and also his wife's final words.
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This communication confirms to him that the aliens can see all time, and that the time loop exists, and thus he calls off the attack.
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The entire point of the aliens' visit, then,was to push Earth to the brink of war and then lead them to unify by learning to think like them
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Which will then allow humanity to advance to the point of being able to help the aliens in 3000 years.
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Anyway, according to Wikipedia the short story it's based on was directly inspired by Fermat's theorem, and I think I understand why
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The idea being that we live in a deterministic universe according to Fermat, and a light particle experiences all dimensions, including time
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> in the same way, and somehow the alien language allows thought to function like light.
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So even though the film appears to be about time travel, it's *not*, but it's rather about inevitability
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Yes, there's only one timeline, which was always fated to happen that way, apparently self-causing future events and all
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This is muddled a bit in the movie -- in the original story the whole main plot with averting war didn't exist
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So the "illusion" of a changeable future never arises
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But there's the realization that one of the aliens dies and could have prevented its death but didn't because that's how it happens
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