In the novel, the author’s brushstrokes are plain but full of power. In the movie, this power is fully reflected.

Bell 2021-12-07 08:01:04

In the novel, the author's brushstrokes are plain but full of power. In the movie, this power is manifested to the utmost. A plot not included in the novel is added to the film: Louise knows that combining with Ian will give birth to a daughter who will die of a rare disease at a young age, so her husband is unknown, but she is known. The husband chose to divorce and was very angry with Louise. He changed his eyes on his daughter. The subtext is that you know that the union of you and me is such a tragic ending. Why do you want it to happen? From the perspective of human thinking, Louise is selfish, but from the perspective of heptapod, Louise is brave.
The husband’s choice is understandable. He is a human mind and lives with someone who already knows the future, but he doesn’t know it. Isn’t it terrifying? He knew the future fate of his daughter, and he flinched. If it was known that his daughter would die at the age of twenty-four, he fell into the endless love of the father. After the daughter dies, there will be endless pain for him, but if the daughter is four years old If he chooses to leave, his pain may not be so much. He is making an evasive choice-this is human thinking. For Louise, who has a heptapod thinking, she knows that cause and effect are both present, and the result will not be due to The reason changes and changes. If she has the will to choose freely, then she cannot predict the future. Then, since she predicts the future, she loses the will to freely choose.
The most bizarre thing in the story is that Louise is a bilingual speaker of human language and Qiwen. She has two kinds of cognitive abilities. As human beings, after all, we live in a long river of linear time, but it is a kind of cognition with humans. How does the second cognitive ability with completely different abilities change us?
A very interesting setting in the movie is that China actually released the information, and the news is reporting that the intelligence obtained by China is: use weapon, while the United States is the one that blocked the information (the offer weapons they obtained never told others Countries), and the United States has been paying attention to China's actions from beginning to end. Who is not cooperating and who is not communicating? It's an American! Our country has not only deciphered the information, but also made a decision, and if according to my insights, my general would have done a perfect hypothesis test in the case of non-cooperation of various countries, so as to hide his merits and fame! The last thing that changed the situation was Louise and General Shang. The two of them really cherished each other at the final reception! But Tuomeng is a bit blind...

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  • Kiley 2022-03-24 09:01:09

    Full of Oriental metaphysics in Hollywood's eyes [if you are more serious, you lose]. Let the heroine translate that paragraph and begging not to show Chinese without a limit, but luckily escaped. However, the most important thing is to show a handful of Chinese, even though he can't understand everything except the general. The general answered the phone and said, "Foreign, who are you like?" Where is the accent here hahahahahahaha!

  • Oceane 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Disputes are often caused by misunderstandings, and fear stems from the unknown. Language is a fog, and cause and effect are like palindrome.

Arrival quotes

  • Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.

    Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...

    Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.

  • 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.