Powered by JustWatch. Science Fiction. Now playing. Passing Odie Henderson. Halloween Kills Brian Tallerico. Operation Hyacinth Odie Henderson. Son of Monarchs Nick Allen. Bergman Island Tomris Laffly. Film Credits. Cast Amy Adams as Dr. Latest blog posts. Every idea expressed through opposition, victory, defeat. You see the problem? If all I ever gave you was a hammer Colonel Weber : Everything's a nail.
Louise Banks : I forgot how good it felt to be held by you. Louise Banks : [narrating] We're so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. Louise Banks : And "purpose" requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out, do they make conscious choices or is their motivation so instinctive that they don't understand a "why" question at all. And-And biggest of all, we need to have enough vocabulary with them that we understand their answer.
Ian Donnelly : As I watch you steer us around these communication traps that I didn't even know existed, it's like, "what? Louise Banks : Trust me, you can understand communication and still end up single. Louise Banks : [narrating] Memory is a strange thing. Louise Banks : The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means? Colonel Weber : So we can learn heptapod. If we survive. Louise Banks : If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do.
So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's non-linear. Ian Donnelly : Maybe I'd say what I feel more often. But I I don't know. You know, I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember.
You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you. Ian Donnelly : You wanna make a baby? Louise Banks : Yes. Ian Donnelly : [upon first meeting] Priority one: What do they want and where are they from? And beyond that, how did they get here? Are they capable of faster-than-light travel? I've prepared a list of questions to go over, starting with a series of "handshake" binary sequences Kaitlyn: I appreciated that the spaceships were huge and weird and felt ancient, and that they did not look like the Death Star.
I did not have a problem with the space octopi! I was prescribed glasses at age five, and promptly lost them on a camping trip and never replaced them, and it is barely legal for me to drive at night. I think that he mostly accomplished that, except for the weird robot-claw hands, which were scary as heck. In that way, Arrival feels like a full-throated rebuttal to superhero cinema, which has become a sustainable plot-farmer, planting seeds, growing plotlines, and partaking in individual movie plots just enough to survive.
Mostly, superhero movies right now are using their run time to grow more characters into future franchises. Tasha: Man. Kids these days! The personal trauma and family death driving the woman at the center of the story. The sabotage subplot, and the moment where the protagonist has to go meet the aliens alone. The themes of communication and outreach as a buffer against loneliness and isolation.
And finally, the tone of solemnity and a subtle sort of human uplift, a sense of positivity and futurism that can reach past the limitations of fear and knee-jerk anger. The two films have a lot in common. And they have more in common when you look at them against the backdrop of those other science fiction films you mentioned, the ones that turn aliens into a generic overwhelming threat and excuse for blow-em-up action like Independence Day: Resurgence , or the films that mostly use aliens as a colorful backdrop to make a universe more diverse like the Star Trek and Star Wars films , or the ones that leave out aliens altogether to focus on human endeavor and human failings.
A lot of science fiction films are about external threats — the ones we might encounter in space, or from space. Arrival is a film about figuring out, carefully and thoughtfully, whether internal or external threats are more dangerous to us as a species.
I understand Dr. Seeing that specific moment play out with her knowing what was going to happen, and not telling him then, made her look like a sociopath. It could be she only catches glimpses once in a while, and has a hard time differentiating them from dreams. Who knows! She either fulfills the future that saves the world, every emotionally painful step of it, or the world ends. So it felt a bit like a non-choice. Now I feel silly.
But I was also terrified of the possibility of a president who has proven his behavior is dictated by moods, which are dictated by threats to his ego. It was an emotional roller coaster, to say the least. Even in The Martian , Americans have to more or less trick the Chinese government into helping them out. Tasha: I had a similar experience, watching the film and thinking about the election in progress, and the huge difference between the way a Clinton White House would handle aliens, and the way a Trump White House would react.
Chris: Arrival tells the story of one woman who choose a life of grief to save the world. I find her so painfully relatable. Friends and family die. Unexpected tragedies interrupt banal work weeks. To live and to love is to court inevitable grief, and we make the choice to move on.
I know the pain that comes with emotional investment, and it does not hobble me, or at least I try my best not to let it.
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