I guess I preferred the novel’s method of slowly doling that “she’s seeing something that hasn’t happened yet” information out to the movie’s, where the aliens tell her something that makes her “realize” kind of all at once so that humanity can help them in the future.

Like the way the movie does it makes it feel to some degree like a trick, like information was benig withheld by the audience - whereas the story does it gradually, so that at first you just think “something doesn’t add up here”, eventually you realize “okay yes there is something hidden in the context of this”, and then you gradually realize the truth over time. Not that the movie did it poorly, I liked the movie a lot, I just felt like the story “earned” that reveal via a slow burn in a way the movie didn’t.

In what way are things fleshed out more in the movie? I’d argue with the exception of the timing of one scene and the shoehorned Chinese war plot, the movie was a pretty faithful adaptation

I love the movie for sure. It wouldn’t be an easy story to adapt. That story is just beyond beautiful to me

Couldn’t possibly disagree more with this one. Story Of Your Life is one of the best novellas ever written IMO