Should humans react with hospitality or hostility? Interpreting language, of course, is a political issue. Banks and those around her, both near and far, interpret the aliens’ speech. The film’s drama is fueled by the question of how Dr. One of the experts recruited into this global mission is linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams). Across multiple nationalities and languages, experts in various fields must decode the aliens’ presence and their language. A Hollywood production that asks us to meditate and recognize the politics of language may be the most alien thing about the film.Īrrival’s narrative tension is introduced when 12 alien spacecraft suddenly appear at 12 diverse locations across Earth, including the US, Russia, China, and Pakistan. ![]() This big-budget, beautiful film retreats from the spectacle it seems to initially be and instead, becomes a quiet, introspective narrative whose central theme is how language foundationally shapes the way we perceive and conceive the world. But beyond this obvious plot point, Arrival is alien in other ways. Most conspicuously, it centers on the first contact between humans and extraterrestrials.
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