Some Understandings of the Movie Version of "Arrival"

Adelbert 2022-04-23 07:01:06

1. The heroine has super power: visual sense, the memory of life after contact with aliens 2. Super power acquisition: taught by alien creatures The time when it started to work: After the aliens came to the earth and contacted the heroine It is "the heroine's first contact with the aliens who descended on the earth", and the final chapter is "Louise's natural death". To sum up: Only the female protagonist fully understands the time system and language system of aliens. The heroine became famous by publishing a book.

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Extended Reading
  • Jamil 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    You can still look at it. My son said that Chinese generals Shang were all influenced by the "dark forest" hypothesis in "Three-Body Problem". I don't think the last part of the dog's blood to dream is the dialogue between the general of the People's Liberation Army and his wife. The Chinese general in Hollywood's imagination is completely the feeling of the general of the Kuomintang.

  • Austin 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    When I read the novel, I felt that the writing was too academic, more like a paper than a science fiction novel, but the film version turned out to be great too! But I also fully understand why Ted Jiang tried his best to avoid Chinese elements when he wrote his novels...

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...