![]() Which makes the film adaptation even more impressive for how faithful it is, down to the seven-armed aliens. In his story, Chiang even includes diagrams to illustrate how light refracts through water-and this moment is supposed to help clarify what’s going on. He addresses things like Fermat’s principle and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. ![]() Whereas most stories and films about first contact deal with confrontation, Chiang is interested in the very complicated basics of communication. ![]() Denis Villeneuve’s latest, a heady sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams, is a pretty faithful adaptation of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life,” a short story about an academic linguist trying to understand an alien language after twelve extraterrestrial vessels appear in various parts of the world. ![]()
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