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Topic: Arrival (2016)
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Mark Ogden
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Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-14-2016 08:30 AM
A professor of linguistics agrees to help the military decipher the language of recently arrived aliens, but while she is doing so the rest of the world prepares for what it sees as a potential threat. At the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, opens nationally on November 11th.
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It’s difficult to describe what happens in this excellent but highly complex movie without dropping major spoilers, but the gist of it is: alien “heptapods” (seven legs) have landed at twelve different spots on Earth. They are only too happy to talk to us, but it has to be in their language, and, as the linguistics expert played by Amy Adams discovers, it’s better if you do it in writing. But as she delves further and further into understanding their language she starts seeing strange and sometimes upsetting visions of a young girl who may or may not be her daughter, and who may or may not actually exist. Why is she is seeing her, and how does it fit into the alien’s purpose in coming? Can she convince the rest of the world that they are peaceful, especially when they mention that they have “weapons”, a piece of information that agitates the madman ruling China?
Arrival is a very good and very complicated movie about communication and the lack of it in the world, and it is also a very emotional movie about, of all things, motherhood (and when I say “emotional”, believe it, many of the women who sat around me at the screening were in tears). It’s very well made but it is a little stiffly acted, and as lovely as Adams is I thought she was a bit too slight to carry the picture, it possibly would have been better with an actress with a little more screen presence. Some have been hyping this as a potential Best Picture Oscar winner; that’s going a little too far, but it is a terrific movie, a human story told with special effects as opposed to a special effect story told with humans.
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