It's the heart that falls

Maxie 2022-04-21 09:01:10

Paramount will also produce such a work, a movie that does not understand. I don't know what topic I want to talk about. The almost drowsy pictures and lines at the beginning, the strange alien language communication in the middle, and the messy future prediction superpower at the end, this is the worst foreign movie I have seen in the past five years. As for adding Chinese elements, I think it is more nondescript, a bit ironic, and a bit affirming the status of China's power. The fact that many people left the scene in the middle is the best evaluation of the film

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Arrival quotes

  • [first lines]

    Louise Banks: [narrating] I used to think this was the beginning of your story. Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time, by its order.

    Louise Banks: [coddling her baby girl] Okay. Okay. Come back to me. Come back to me. Come back to me.

    Louise Banks: [later playing with her in the yard] Stick 'em up! Are you the sheriff in this here town? These are my tickle guns, and I'm gonna getcha!

    6-Year-Old-Hannah: No!

    Louise Banks: You want me to chase you? You better run!

  • 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...

    Louise Banks: How about we just talk to them before we start throwing math problems at them?

    Colonel Weber: This is why you're both here. I'll bring the coffee...

    Ian Donnelly: Coffee with some aliens...