[zetsurin]

Great movie, based on one of Ted Chaing's short stories -- highly recommended.

[stavros]

I never understood why they changed that detail about the daughter in the movie. It really diminishes the meaning for no benefit at all.

[tiffanyh]

Would you mind explaining, since I didn’t read the book but saw the movie.

IIRC, the main character knew her future daughter would get sick and pass - and the conundrum was, does she tell her husband before the daughter is born (to potentially prevent pregnancy but doesn’t) … which after the daughter was born, the dad/husband learned she knew the future fate - led to their divorce. Was the book different?

[mikewarot]

I was curious about the differences, so I found a copy of the story online.[1] (Warning PDF)

I find the idea of "variational principle" in physics interesting.

https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Ch...