![]() ![]() The area the aliens occupy is filled with liquid gas, while they expel signs that look more like Rorschach tests, behind a spongy glass. The ship is black and cavernous like a cave or a mine, hence the team bringing a canary as a warning bell. The mood of the film, as with many, is displayed by the sets. Instead, it is an extended and vertical UFO. Refreshing is one word, when a space ship is depicted that doesn’t resemble something from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The ship is righted (See what I did there?) when we are able to see inside the alien vessel. Probably for the same reason that translators for every language were present at this UFO landing site, but when they have to decipher Chinese, they call Adams….instead of….you know…. The reason why these are the only two experts they could find, you know, instead of someone from NASA, is never explained. ![]() Rather than recruit someone with a background in Semiotics, which would make perfect sense, the US Government and Forest Whitaker (Colonel Weber), find a linguist and a theoretical physicist, Jeremy Renner (Ian Donnelly) to decipher the alien code. Their language is in the form of drawn symbols, and is “written” in both the past and future tense. Ships have landed, and these aliens can’t speak English, damn illegals. Because Louise doesn’t watch the news, she’s unaware that a better version of Independence Day 2 is in the works. The audience finds her in-res due to the death of her child from cancer. If you’re used to Doctor Who timey-wimey events, then Arrival is for you.Īmy Adams plays a gifted linguist, Louise Banks (is anyone in a film ever not gifted?). Arrival….Or when Mulder finally told Scully, “ In your face!” ![]()
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