This is not a “sit down and turn your brain off” movie: just to grasp the story, I had to think harder than I ever have before during a film.īut if you dedicate yourself to studying what Arrival has to offer, the experience is enormously rewarding. The film’s narrative is extremely complex: themes like the nature of time, free will, fate and the vagaries of language and the human mind are explored as regular plot developments at every turn. I really want to talk about what makes Arrival so simultaneously mind shattering and heartwarming. As always, his steady style methodically tells us everything we need to know through visuals alone, utilizing slow zooms and perfectly framed shots to both impress and inform the audience.
Linguist Louise and mathematician Ian (Jeremy Renner) are among these best and soon enter a spacecraft to meet the future.īefore I expound on Arrival’s grand purpose, I’d be remiss not to praise Villeneuve’s direction. Spaceships that look like humongous oblong slabs of marble hover over multiple spots around the world, prompting governments to send in their best to establish rapport with the aliens.
#Arrival linguist review movie#
Plot-wise, the movie is about an accomplished linguist (Amy Adams) who is recruited by the US Army to attempt initial communication with aliens that have recently arrived (GET IT?) on Earth.
With Arrival, he rips open the frame of his picture and widens its scope to sweep his brush over all of existence. Arrival is just like the written language of its aliens: a beautiful mystery that will open your mind.
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