Beautiful Dreamer is a heartbreaking short film that channels Arrival and Black Mirror
If you’ve ever read one of Ken Liu’s stories, you’ll know that he’s a master at writing something that will pack an emotional, devastating punch. Filmmaker David Gaddie recently released an adaptation of Liu’s 2012 short story Memories of My Mother, a heart-wrenching short that calls to mind brilliant science fiction stories such as Arrival and Black Mirror.
The story’s premise is simple: a young mother is ill with an unnamed, terminal disease. With only two years left to live, she decides to stretch out her remaining years by going into space, using relativity to slow down time and visiting every few years so that she can watch her daughter grow up.
Liu originally published Memories of My Mother in Daily Science Fiction, a website…
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