Film · Paramount · 2016
Pass it on
Arrival
74Worth an evening.
Understanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.
The review
Louise's profession is the unfashionable one: sit with a sentence until it means what the speaker meant, not what you feared. The generals want a weapon. The film thinks a grammar is more dangerous and more useful than a weapon, because a grammar changes what you are able to choose. When she sees the whole of her life with her daughter, including the end, she does not flinch into a safer timeline.
Adults, and teenagers who can be quiet. This is one of the few popular films of the decade that treats knowledge as a moral act. Watch it when the house is tempted to answer before it has understood.
Journal
Keep Arrival in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 74. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
Translation as a discipline: hours, a whiteboard, a refusal of the military shortcut.
- 7Household
A mother who chooses the daughter knowing the death. The choice is love, not ignorance.
- 5Piety
Awe, handled as study. No church, and no sneer at the scale.
- 8Courage
She walks into the ship, and later she walks into the grief on purpose.
- 6Republic
Nations on the edge of a war because they will not read slowly. She is the argument for slowness.
- 7Temperance
No thrill-chase. The tension is whether anyone will shut up long enough to learn a sentence.
- 9Truth
The whole story is about what a word does. A bad translation is nearly a war.
- 8Stewardship
She accepts a future that includes a loss, and does not edit the child out to spare herself.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Arrival · 74IMDb tt2543164
