Arrival Review, Part 2
On the strangeness of a language telling the futureWhen she asks why the aliens want to help humanity, the aliens respond by saying they will eventually need humanity’s help.
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Arrival Review, Part 1
Nobody behaves like they should for the first ten minutes. They act, dare I say, alien.Arrival is an interesting movie. It’s well-shot, well-acted, and well-written. The trouble is the script makes some strange choices in the beginning and I just wasn’t persuaded by the movie’s twist at the end. The story starts out with a montage where Louise is raising her daughter, but the child tragically dies of some unknown illness, presumably cancer. The viewer is led to conclude that this is a flashback, but if one listens to the monologue Louise delivers, she says plainly that she’s explaining when the child’s story begins, if there are beginning at all, which is something she no longer believes. This basically means that the entire movie is a flashback, but the viewer is not supposed to notice Read More ›