Yeah Arrival is legit. It's one of those movies where the visuals, score, and acting all combine to tell the story really well but also gives you a certain "feeling" that goes beyond the story. You
I really enjoyed it. I think it was the last movie I watched in a movie theater.
arrival, i watched it friday and saturday. about an hour each night.
seemed pretty good. a bit sad. hey, connect the dots for me- was she married to jeremy renner prior to the aliens or did that event/arrival rewrite history? was her entire life a dream? this movie confused me a little bitty bit.
No. The "flashbacks" you see throughout the movie involving her daughter/husband are actually flash forwards. Learning the alien language gives you the power to see/comprehend the future. That's how the aliens knew they'd need humanity's help some day and why they made the trip to earth to share the gift/weapon/tool of their circle future language.
There's a lot of open ended questions that remain surrounding the impact of that "gift" -- especially w/r/t what she knows her future daughter's fate is.
I don't know. Neat movie. I really loved it.
i thought it was a pretty good movie. it was weird to me that it was humans who figured out the complex language vs the advanced life form who couldn't figure out ours considering the complexity of each and ours being so simplistic
I don't think the aliens were all that "smart," just way different in some aspects. I can't remember if this was in the movie (or the short story, which I didn't read but did read about), but somewhere, they pointed out that the aliens were really good at calculus, but couldn't really figure out algebra. Something to do with the idea that their basic worldview has a really hard time with "linear" stuff.
Maybe our sentence structures present the same kind of problem for them.