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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Same, of course, with the protagonist's doomed daughter, and doomed marriage
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The story makes this even clearer -- the daughter doesn't die by cancer (which "feels" inevitable to us) but in a rock climbing accident
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The protagonist watches her leave for her rock climbing trip with the knowledge that she will die and can't stop it
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She can't say anything because that would break Fermat's theorem. That's not the lowest energy state. It's not what happened
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The story goes into more detail about how it works -- she experiences it as "seeing" or "remembering" the future because she's still human
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She has flashes where she thinks she fully grasps the alien POV and it's like Buddhist enlightenment, losing the sense of self entirely
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