Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a speculative script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
Linguist Louise Banks's daughter Hannah dies at the age of twelve from an incurable illness. Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over various locations around the Earth. In the ensuing widespread panic, affected nations send military and scientific experts to monitor and study them. In the United States, US Army Colonel Weber recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study the craft above Montana. On board, Banks and Donnelly make contact with two cephalopod-like, seven-limbed aliens, whom they call "heptapods"; Donnelly nicknames them Abbott and Costello. Banks and Donnelly research the complex written language of the aliens, consisting of palindromic phrases written with circular symbols, and share the results with other nations. As Banks studies the language, she starts to have flashback-like visions of her daughter.
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Here you'll find some of Denis Villeneuve 's best movies.
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Un 32 août sur terre | 1998 |
| Maelström | 2000 |
| Polytechnique | 2009 |
| Incendies | 2010 |
| Prisoners | 2013 |
| Enemy | 2013 |
| Sicario | 2015 |
| Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 |
| Dune | 2021 |
Arrival is a movie that particularly stood up to me as I'm a linguistics scholar. It shows how a language is far more complicated than everyone thinks, and its depcryption isn't any less. The steps that the protagonist has to take to decrypt and understand the aliens' mode of communication is very similar to the ones famous linguists have taken to understand hieroglyphics and ancient rests of a language.
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