I really like the movie, but i think it did lose some of the soul of the short story. The short story is essentially a story about grief using time travel as a

I really like the movie, but i think it did lose some of the soul of the short story. The short story is essentially a story about grief using time travel as a metaphor but not actually having time travel in it. The movie has the character changing the past in a critical moment which kind of undermines the whole soul of the story imo. To be clear, i still think arrival is a great movie, just rather different from the source material in terms of meaning and "soul"