That is a disappointment given how Villeneuve and his team create a distinctive alien world that, after many, many films, is truly unearthly. Amidst tall grasses, against setting suns, over clinging hugs, these shots are very, very Terence Malik-like. The daughter dies at the start of the film, of a disease that shall not be named. The film can’t even resist from suggesting Louise’s house as a simulation of the Heptapod home.Īnd if all that is not enough to underline the illusion of time, Villeneuve - a director of no mean repute after Sicario - keeps flashing back to Louise and Hannah’s tender moments. Heptapods are revealed to see time in a linear fashion, so no start and finish. Louise’s daughter Hannah’s name is a palindrome or spelt the same way backwards and forwards. The aliens, or Heptapods, write in a smoky, hieroglyphic script whose letters are circles bookended by inky splotches. The linguist, Louise (Amy Adams), can’t stop talking about how there are no beginnings and endings, but “some days that define your story”. And yet, Arrival is so conscious of its own loquaciousness that it drowns in it. A film that throws up such a vivid visual image - transported from Ted Chiang’s award-winning book Story of Your Life - should know the value of words. Who come in a spaceship that hangs like a comma, between a beginning and an end. Arrival movie review: That is a disappointment given how Denis Villeneuve and his team create a distinctive alien world that, after many, many films, is truly unearthly.Īrrival movie cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael StuhlbargĪ linguist at the vanguard against aliens.
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