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2016's American sci-fi film, based on the short story Story of Your Life, Staring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker.
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What could be the undetermined issue that aliens would be facing 3000 years in the future in...
It is never explained.
The issue they have is essentially a McGuffin. It is a plot device that we, the audience, aren't really meant to completely understand, but that moves the plot forward and gives …
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How does Louise even begin to understand aliens at all?
First of all, let us remember that this is a movie, and not a documentary. As Jessica Coon puts it,
If they’d done justice to all that goes into understanding an unknown language, you’d just be watch …
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Who installed the charge and why, in the explosion scene?
Why were our two "translators" allowed to enter the spaceship when the charge was in?
Because the soldiers couldn't make up any reason to stop them.
First of all, the ones who planted the bomb were …
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In "Arrival," how does Louise communicate with the alien without visual aids?
Right from the beginning, they spoke English with the heptapods. Remember how they taught them the words Louise and Human?
They used the heptapod language to make sure they were learning it correctly …
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Is Arrival's plot of rewiring one's brain by learning a new language based on reality?
Maybe not to the extent where Arrival shows (you start seeing the future), but indeed it does.
I read this article years ago, comparing German and English bilinguals. …
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