This is what the Heptapods were giving Louise, and humanity.
I don't think Nietzsche believed the eternal return was literally true - that we will ever experience our lives in that way - but he thought it was a powerful notion to keep in mind when faced with life's hardships and especially with hard decisions. I do not want to accuse I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. “I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity -, but to love it.” "My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. He answers the thought experiment elsewhere, saying: The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Thou art a god, and never have I heard anything more divine'?” "What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. He called the infinite loop the "eternal return". Namely, if you knew every detail of your life, and couldn't change any of them, would you be willing to endure it a second time? Or a third? Or, in fact, forever. Nietzche actually put forward a thought experiment that Louise grappled with in the film. He called it amor fati, or the love of fate. Heres my boilerplate response to most questions about the movie and Nietzsche, so it might seem a little off the mark in regards to your question.Ī central message of Arrival was an idea that the philosopher Nietzsche wrote a lot about - the idea of being able to embrace and even celebrate one's life even if you know the outcome will be less than great.
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