For many people, and me as well, Arrival is the greatest sci-fi movie ever made. Maybe not the most thrilling and entertaining as Interstellar or The Martian, but we know, Arrival is a kinda movie we will see again and again for a lifetime. Movie that become classic as it’s crafted. Arrival tried to seduce us with the most immanent question: what is life about when we’d already known what is going to happen?
The story actually is very simple, there are 12 alien’s vessels that come into the earth. None knows their purpose, why they don’t attack, why they choose that 12 spots for their arrival, or anything else about the arrival. But then we had Louise Banks (Amy Adams), the linguist, to help translating that alien’s language, helped by Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) the physicist to see the other side of the arrival. Before the interpretation, we’re presented a story as if Louise lived in misery, lost her child and lonely. A memory that was still hanging in her mind all the time.
At her first encounter with the alien, she couldn’t understand their language, but she knew that the alien spoke in different way with human. They wrote their words in circular construction. I myself saw the alien’s language was looked like Ouroboros., an ancient Egyptian symbol for eternity, something that over and over recreating itself. And I got it close, by the coincidence, their language reflects their perception of time. By time, Louise recognize the way the aliens to communicate. The aliens don’t see the time as a linear line of past, present, and future, they see it at once. This why this movie was getting very interesting. Arrival is very thought-wise and consistent to its premise: What if time isn’t linear, so what is time? What is past? What is present? What is future? What if we can see our future? What will we do?
In no time, I just remembered about butterfly effect so is the movie about that, stared by Ashton Kutcher. Butterfly effect is part of chaos theory by Edward Norton Lorenz, that said one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever, but it was changed to butterfly to be heard more poetic. The movie Butterfly Effect itself told story about Ashton character who can change his past. He tried to change something that will inflict a loss for him. But every changing he made brought its outcome. I don’t remember the ending, if I don’t get it wrong he was finally trying to accept the reality, the most important is about people’s virtues, and he didn’t reckon himself anymore.
And Arrival furnished the same option, but with dignify. The alien was not coming to attack the earth, as many world leaders predicted. They’re offering gifts. A gift they have, to see the time in their approach. A story goes, Louise could experience the future as the past and present at the same time, for her time was folded. They need to give that gift because in 3000 years from that time, the alien will need human’s help. And to that thing, all the world’s leaders must be united. No war. “In war, there are no winners, only widows”. As Louise understood their language and get the message, the alien gone. And we’ve seen many time distractions then.
The story that we thought as her memory about her losing child, in the beginning of the movie, actually is her future. And Ian is her gonna be husband. Her husband will leave her and her daughter will die because of incurable cancer. Yeah, it’s a very dark future to lose the ones we love, but Louise doesn’t have intention to change it. All she can do for present is embracing Ian, and remembering all the warmth their hugging. Yes, it’s not a story about alien, it’s a story about humanity.
All about the movie is A plus for me. The acting, the story, the directing, the score, the everything. And for me it’s not only collectible, but it must be keep movie. Movie of life.
The story actually is very simple, there are 12 alien’s vessels that come into the earth. None knows their purpose, why they don’t attack, why they choose that 12 spots for their arrival, or anything else about the arrival. But then we had Louise Banks (Amy Adams), the linguist, to help translating that alien’s language, helped by Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) the physicist to see the other side of the arrival. Before the interpretation, we’re presented a story as if Louise lived in misery, lost her child and lonely. A memory that was still hanging in her mind all the time.
At her first encounter with the alien, she couldn’t understand their language, but she knew that the alien spoke in different way with human. They wrote their words in circular construction. I myself saw the alien’s language was looked like Ouroboros., an ancient Egyptian symbol for eternity, something that over and over recreating itself. And I got it close, by the coincidence, their language reflects their perception of time. By time, Louise recognize the way the aliens to communicate. The aliens don’t see the time as a linear line of past, present, and future, they see it at once. This why this movie was getting very interesting. Arrival is very thought-wise and consistent to its premise: What if time isn’t linear, so what is time? What is past? What is present? What is future? What if we can see our future? What will we do?In no time, I just remembered about butterfly effect so is the movie about that, stared by Ashton Kutcher. Butterfly effect is part of chaos theory by Edward Norton Lorenz, that said one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever, but it was changed to butterfly to be heard more poetic. The movie Butterfly Effect itself told story about Ashton character who can change his past. He tried to change something that will inflict a loss for him. But every changing he made brought its outcome. I don’t remember the ending, if I don’t get it wrong he was finally trying to accept the reality, the most important is about people’s virtues, and he didn’t reckon himself anymore.
And Arrival furnished the same option, but with dignify. The alien was not coming to attack the earth, as many world leaders predicted. They’re offering gifts. A gift they have, to see the time in their approach. A story goes, Louise could experience the future as the past and present at the same time, for her time was folded. They need to give that gift because in 3000 years from that time, the alien will need human’s help. And to that thing, all the world’s leaders must be united. No war. “In war, there are no winners, only widows”. As Louise understood their language and get the message, the alien gone. And we’ve seen many time distractions then.
The story that we thought as her memory about her losing child, in the beginning of the movie, actually is her future. And Ian is her gonna be husband. Her husband will leave her and her daughter will die because of incurable cancer. Yeah, it’s a very dark future to lose the ones we love, but Louise doesn’t have intention to change it. All she can do for present is embracing Ian, and remembering all the warmth their hugging. Yes, it’s not a story about alien, it’s a story about humanity.
All about the movie is A plus for me. The acting, the story, the directing, the score, the everything. And for me it’s not only collectible, but it must be keep movie. Movie of life.
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