Open time and be born in nothingness——You did not understand the sadness of "Arrival"

Arrival

The last movie that made me feel goosebumps was Interstellar, but that was two years ago. I have seen a lot of film reviews, linguistics and Fermat's principle make Qiuku overwhelmed, but almost no film reviews really discuss the core of the film. As a language major and a dead fan of time and space, Qiuku has studied two late nights. The first draft is also full of concepts such as closed time curve and Novikov's principle of self-consistency. But in the end, Qiuku feels that this Film reviews starting from concept science are turning the cart before the horse. It is the most important thing to interpret and understand the core of a film. I just hope that this article is the best interpretation of "Advent". Quick Navigation Contents 1 21 things you need to know and 2 of the original Ted ginger "your life story," a short story set before the body 3 to open the recommended 4 times, was born in nothingness (after reading recommendations piece from here) Drama The cornerstone of analytical theory is born in the meaning of nothingness. 5 The sadness that you did not understand. Welcome to discuss and reprint. Please leave your ID for reprint. Thank you. >>>>>>>21 things you need to know ** This film is adapted from the 1998 short story collection "The Story of Your Life" by Chinese science fiction writer Ted Chiang (won the Nebula Award and the Sturgeon Award ). ＊＊＊ In the original work, the aliens are called heptapods heptapods. The heptapods in the book have a perfectly balanced body and can stand alone with any foot. Their eyes are all around and in all directions, just like their spaceship, without front and back. Of points . Regarding the voice of aliens, the film also tried to restore the "short, sound like splashing water." "Aliens have seven long limbs, converging in the center from four directions, and a barrel hung on the axis. The entire body is extremely symmetrical. Any one of the seven limbs can function as a leg. At the same time, any limb is also It can be used as an arm. The one in front of me walks on four legs, and the other three limbs that are not connected are curled up on each side. Gueret calls them "Heptagram "."-"The Story of Your Life" ＊＊＊When the hostess explained to her daughter why she named her Hannah , the hostess said it was a "Parlindrome" (pallindrome, palindrome, subtitles "Mom gave her You started...") , that is, it is the same when you read it backwards and forwards. This mirrors the theme of the film. In a non-linear timeline, the head is both the tail and the tail is the head, just like the movie "Pre-Destination" (the snake swallows its own tail). ＊＊＊The bird in the cage is used to check whether the air in the alien spacecraft is safe. This method has been used in the mining industry for hundreds of years, and the phrase canary in a coal mine ( canary in a coal mine , meaning "dangerous omen") also comes from here. However, in addition to this purpose, the bird in the film is also used as a reference for the sound, because the sound data of this bird is relatively stable.

＊＊＊Aliens heptapods (heptapods, long trousers prefer to call them seven-legged monsters) textual creativity comes from the Zen circle of Zen , which means “absolute enlightenment, power, elegance, universe and void ”. The design of the ink circle symbolic language used by the aliens in the film was created by the Montreal artist Martine Bertrand, and the graffiti of the heroine's daughter Hannah in the film is the work of the artist's son.

＊＊＊Director Dennis and screenwriter Heather really created a set of "alien languages" that can be used, and compiled a "Complete Book of Jian Fu", which contains more than one hundred available abbreviations, and the film presents Seventy-one of them. ** In the original book, the heroine's daughter Hannah died on the mountain in an accident at 25 o'clock. ＊＊＊Director Dennis and the writing team tried their best to ensure the scientificity of the film, and consulted Stephen Wolfram, a well-known British scientist and chief designer of Mathematica, and his son to ensure the accuracy of the terms, graphics, and descriptions that appear in the film. ＊＊＊The film was originally called "The Story of Your Life", but the preview audience was not cold about the name, so "Arrival" was born. ＊＊＊When designing aliens Abbott and Costello, the crew incorporated inspirations from octopuses, whales, elephants and spiders. Director Dennis hopes that the aliens will have a sense of existence, make people feel smart and feel like "meeting a huge underwater monster." He hoped that aliens would approach the image of people in bizarre dreams or nightmares, and later (he has a lot of things...) demanded that the image of aliens could give people a hint of death.

＊＊＊The heroine Louise Louise told General Weber that the term kangroo (kangaroo) comes from a misunderstanding in language communication, and kangroo actually means "don't know" in the aboriginal language. This is really a rumor , and it was not debunked by the linguist John B. Haviland until the 1970s. In fact, the word kangroo is derived from the indigenous word gangurru, which specifically refers to the gray kangaroo. ＊＊＊This film is the third collaboration between director Dennis and composer Johann Johannsson. Their previous collaborations were "Prisoner" 2013 and "Frontier Runner " 2015. They will join hands again in "Blade Runner 2049" 2017 ( Sorry, join hands) . ＊＊＊In the original work, 9 alien spacecraft landed in the United States, and 112 in the world. The film reduces the number to 12 and makes the design of the spacecraft more mysterious. ＊＊＊After the director Dennis finished the film, he began to produce "Blade Runner 2049". ＊＊＊The protagonist Ian called the two seven-legged monsters who came to communicate with each other as Abbott and Costello. The allusion comes from the British TV comedy "The Abbott and Costello Show" in 1952. In the play, Abbott and Costello spent a lot of words in the communication because of misunderstanding each other's issues.

＊＊＊When director Dennis agreed to direct "Arrival", he said to the screenwriter Heysel, "Well, we are married." ＊＊＊The filming began in June 2015, and the male lead actor Jeremy Renner (Eagle Eye) has just finished "Captain America: Civil War" footage.

＊＊＊The warning sound that the scientist sounds when preparing to approach the alien spacecraft in the film is exactly the same as the warning sound in the "Human Removal Project" series . ＊＊＊The heroine actor Amy Adams has a close relationship with Lois, and her real name is Lou (representing Louis or Louise) in the middle . She played the role of Lois in "Man of Steel" and "Superman v Batman", and played Louise in this film.

＊＊＊In the original script, aliens will give different "gifts" to different humans who land on the ground. For example, they will give Americans super-light flight technology, the innovation of life supply for China, the Peruvians learned to create gravity, the Japanese Learned to use air to make water, the British mastered the technology of making a shell to isolate cosmic rays, and Saudi Arabia obtained celestial coordinates. But the director told the screenwriter to make changes after watching "Interstellar" in order to distinguish "Interstellar".

＊＊＊At the end of the film , the hero Ian called his daughter Hannah the star stuff stardust , derived from Carl Sagan's work Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A person voyage1980. He mentioned, "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in the blood, and the carbon in the apple pie are all produced in collapsed stars. We are all made of stardust." Carl Sagan There is also a sci-fi story about communicating with aliens that has been adapted into a movie, "Time Contact" 1997, starring actress Judy Foster.

(Personal translation of the above content is compiled from IMDb) >>>>>>>Author and original work >>Ted Chiang Ted Chiang Ted Chiang, Ted Jiang, was born on October 20, 1967 in Feison Town, New York City, USA, graduated In the Computer Science Department of Brown University, he is the best contemporary Chinese science fiction writer in the United States. In 1990, he published Virgo's "Babylon Tower" and won the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. To date, he has published eight works , all of which are short films or novellas. Nonetheless, he enjoys the sci-fi world in the United States. Prestigious. The eight works made him win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Campbell Award.

Different from the traditional story mode, Ted Jiang inherited the core of the narrative of science fiction, especially in "The Story of Your Life", the heroine can no longer return to the original life, but to face it actively. "I think science fiction is essentially a narrative of the post-industrial revolution era. Some literary critics concluded that the traditional stories of great and evil always follow this pattern: the world is beautiful, evil invades, heroes fight, The evil is finally defeated, and the world becomes beautiful again. As those critics said, this is essentially a conservative narrative, because it always tends to keep the world as it is. This is also a common pattern in crime fiction—— Order was first destroyed, but eventually restored. Science fiction provides a completely different narrative: at first it is the world we know well, then new inventions or new technologies bring change and chaos. At the end of the story, the world is permanently changed It will never return to the way it was. Therefore, this story mode is positive. The message it implies is not that we should maintain the status quo, but that change is inevitable. The impact of new inventions or new technologies-no matter it is good It’s bad or it’s unavoidable, and we have to face it ."-Interview with Ted Chiang, 2013

>> "Stories of your life and others" (Stories of your life and others) subtitle: Ted Jiang's collection of science fiction novels "Stories of Your Life " gathers seven early works of Ted Jiang, etc.: the masterpiece "The Story of Your Life" ", Virgo "Babylon Tower", "Comprehension", "Division by Zero", "Seventy-Two Letters", "The Evolution of Human Science", "Hell is where God is not". The movie "Arrival" is adapted from one of the "Stories of Your Life", a linguist has been changed by alien languages, and the past, present, and future are unfolding in front of her at the same time. Some people use "shock" to describe "The Story of Your Life", while others describe it as "obscure." You can feel the motif of Ted Chiang's creation: accept irreversible change.

>>>>>>>Recommendation before the main text Nominations for Oscar Best Picture, Golden Lion Award, sweeping more than 140 major awards, if these honors and the praise of major media are too far away from you, then netizens, audiences and friends The high reputation will not deceive you. The poetic, calm and serious shots give this hard science fiction film a special artistic temperament. The mysterious and urgent soundtrack makes you immersive. The script and story itself are also fascinating enough to open up their minds. "Through" small.

If you are a movie fan, Denis Villeneuv, director of "The Prisoner" and "Border Killer", is enough to attract your attention, plus the female Amy Adams ("Nocturnal Animals", "Superman vs. Batman" , "American Hoax", "Leap Year", "Julie and Julia"), eagle-eyed brother Jeremy Renner ("Avengers", "Hurt Locker") and Oscar actor Foles Forest Whitaker ("Field Platoon", "Jazzman", "Sniper Phone Booth", "Last Dictator") makes this film not to be missed.

Of course, movies are personal consumption. The position of "Arrival" in your heart is unknown to others. The only thing you can be sure of is that it is at least not a bad movie that relies on small fresh meat or sentimental money.

Spoiler dividing line In order to ensure your movie-watching experience, please come back after watching it, not counting those who fall asleep! +++++++You still have a chance+++++++ Spoiler Alert! >>>>>>>>>Opening time, born in nothing >>>>>>>Plot analysis >>What story does "Arrival" tell? Linguist Louise is a pacifist. Twelve oval-shaped (called "shells" in the movie) alien spacecraft suddenly landed on the earth, breaking her original life and the whole world. With excellent translation skills, Louise was recruited by the government and got to know the inexistent physicist Ian, who landed on the spacecraft and tried to make wai (jiao) with aliens.

Unlike human characters, the round characters of the seven-legged monster get rid of the shackles of pronunciation, and there is no logic of cause and effect. While learning this language, Louise began to hallucinate, and she could clearly hear the images in her mind. At the same time, she and Chinese and Russian experts almost simultaneously translated an extraterrestrial language that may destroy the world: offer weapon , surrender/provide weapons (because there is no subject, it can be understood as allowing humans to provide weapons, or to provide weapons to humans , The language of the seven-legged monster is also a weapon). The diplomacy between humans and the heptapod is at an impasse, and Star Wars is about to start. The fearless Louise entered the spaceship again alone, apologized to the seven-legged monster and asked sincerely. The extraterrestrial octopus geeks without legs have come here to help humans, and in 3000 years, they will need human help. The way to help mankind is to teach mankind their language. The language of the heptapod is exactly a weapon (gift/technology/tool, a gift to humans), because once you truly master this language, you can perceive time and even open time. Louise has mastered this language, and the originally linear space-time also forms a loop. In her world, the future and the present exist at the same time. She sees her own future: Ian will join her, their daughter is Hannah, and Hannah will Died from an incurable disease. She will tell Ian the future that her daughter will die, and Ian can't bear the blow and leave him. She will bear a short happy but painful future with her daughter alone.

China is about to strike at the spacecraft, and Louise knows that in the future, a phone call with General Shang can resolve all this. At the moment when the future and the present are perfectly intertwined, mankind has avoided a catastrophe. In the face of her short and beautiful painful future, she knew that she had already made a decision. In the sunset, she hugged Ian, it felt like the first and last time.

>>>>>Theoretical cornerstone-Wolfe hypothesis is the profound meaning of the non-linear alien circular text in the end? The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, full name, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) mentioned by Ian is the cornerstone of the heptapod's writing ability. Its basic meaning is that different languages ​​determine people's different ways of thinking (this is still a hypothesis) . The non-linear Zen-circle texts of the heptapods illustrate their way of thinking completely different from that of human beings. Therefore, in human cognition, linear time with no beginning and no end can form a loop. In this time loop like Zen circle, the traditional view of time is subverted, and the logical relationship of sequence, cause and effect is no longer meaningful. Every event in the loop is the cause and result of another event at the same time. For this reason, the heptapod possesses another perception beyond humans— perception of time.. The most interesting things have also arisen. The most brilliant place in "Arrival" is also the perfect presentation of this subversive view of time. Louise has mastered the Zen circle text, as if she has opened up the two channels of Ren and Du, she has begun to have the same perception of nonlinear time as the seven-legged monster. The first is all kinds of "dreams" and "illusions", which are not dreams or illusions, but memories of perceptual time. At first, the audience was the same as Louise. They didn’t know who the girl was, and even suspected that she and her ex-husband’s child had brainstormed various plots (Oh, I see, her daughter is dead, and she can’t stand the amnesia. Actually, Ian It was his ex-husband, and the alien came to give her psychological counseling, so that she would think of her ex-husband and return to Ian's arms...Great little brother sitting behind me). As the plot deepens, Louise vaguely feels that those dreams are about to happen in the future. After talking to the seven-legged monster alone, Louise understood the meaning of opening time. The solution to the problem is not in the present, but in the future, she strives to remember the future, remembering the meeting with General Shang 18 months later. The death sentence of the army wife (although we don't know how this sentence made General Shang do what kind of ideological struggle in a socialist country), let the event of dissolving the interstellar species conflict form a perfect closed loop. In the peaceful "future" 18 months later, General Shang whispered in Louise's ear, and Louise also transmitted the whisper to General Shang who was in anger 18 months ago through the radio wave. The past and the future of 18 months are destined to be intertwined here. War does not make a hero, only widows (War does not make winner, only widows, if it is a black widow, Hulk and Ian will be ecstatic, Marvel fans give me five, who understand in seconds!) , this sentence Whether the words were told by General Shang to Louise or General Shang told by Louise is unknown in the linear world of humans (explained below).

At this time, just like Nolan’s use of cross-editing magnification in "Interstellar", the number of flashbacks in the film is increasing, reality and the future are constantly intertwined, and Louise seems to have seen his life (accurately) in an instant. Said it was her daughter’s life), fell in love with Ian, gave birth to Hannah, told Ian that her daughter would die of terminal illness, Ian left, and silently endured everything, experiencing the short-term sweetness with her husband, and the short-term happiness and experience of her daughter. With the pain of losing a loved one, experiencing happiness mixed with pain, and pain mixed with happiness.

>>>>>>> Open the time and be born into nothingness. "War will not make heroes, only orphans and widows will be left behind." Who remembered it? Louise in "Arrival" opens many closed loops of time in his life through perceiving time. In every closed loop that seems to have no cause and effect, there is an interweaving point that connects the past and the future end to end . In the film, we can find several closed-loop events: Louise learns language events. Louise understands the book on the wall by recalling the textbooks and courses she wrote.

Non-zero sum game events In the future, Louise remembers the non-zero sum game by thinking back to the present, and tells her daughter the term non-zero sum game.

These events "opened up time", but did not make the audience deeply feel the significance of the simultaneous existence of the past, the present and the future. It was not until the final climax of the film, the complete subversion of the concept of time, that the profound meaning of the film was perfectly presented. The Madam’s Last Words >>>>>>>>>The meaning of the emptiness General Shang’s army was drawn out. Louise suddenly realized the ability to open time. She tried to think about the future. 18 months later General Shang told her about the phone. Louise dialed the phone, but she didn't know what to say. In the future, through the mouth of General Shang, Louise will utter the last words, and General Shang will choose peace. In this incident, the past Louise had an impact on the future Louise, and the future Louise also had an impact on the past Louise. What is presented in the film is the whisper of the future general business, which reminds the past Louise of that sentence. This event can only be completed when one side thinks of it, but both people are waiting for each other, the past L recalls the future L recalls the past L recalls the future L... If the future L can't remember that sentence, the past L can't remember that sentence. Soon, he will fall into an endless vortex. Who on earth remembered this sentence? And the end of the vortex is the ultimate Zen circle, nothingness, which arises from the interweaving point of nothingness. Because it was neither the past Louise remembering that sentence nor the future Louise remembering that sentence, but the irreversible confluence of them from both directions of time to a non-existent point at the same time. Without confluence, the closed loop cannot be produced. Time is annihilated. The moment of combination, the closed loop is formed, and a point of nothingness is produced, and it is no longer nothingness. Time is reversed to produce meaning in two directions at the same time. The L of the past and the L of the future, in the emptiness of time and space, think of that sentence at the same time, the past and the future that should not exist have meaning in the emptiness.

This is the most exciting part of "Arrival". Only then can you deeply perceive the subversion of causality. It is not both a cause and an effect, but the original cause and effect, which produces cause and effect from nothingness. Open time (open time), born in nothingness.

>>>>>>>>>I foresee all the sadness, but I still want to go? Hannah: You didn't understand her sadness. "I foresee all the sadness, but I am still willing to go" seems to be the closest literary lyric to the film. Fatalism and even free will have become keywords in the film. But in the world of the heptapod and Louise, all this will be wiped out .

The concept of "foreseeing the future" in the film is different from the well-known foresight of the future. The interweaving points that arise from the void create a closed loop of time. The past, present and future exist at the same time. Therefore, the concepts of "past", "present" and "future" as we know it no longer exist. Simply put, everything Louise does at this time determines every moment from now on and before. In her world, there is no choice or destiny. Every moment is her past, present and future. Every second is a lifetime.

To give a simple example, linearly: Einstein slapped Newton, and the two broke up. But in the non-linear world of the seven-legged monster: Einstein's slap determines the two people's breakup, and the two people's breakup determines Einstein's slap at the same time. The two events of slap and breakup exist at the same time and decide each other . Louise is always making choices. Her future and the future of mankind are still full of unknowns, but she who makes every choice at this moment knows the future after making these choices, and these "futures" and "pasts." , And at any moment determine the moment she is experiencing. Hannah's birth determines Hannah's death, and her death also determines her birth. The fate familiar to mankind no longer makes sense in Louise's world . She lives in the past, present and future at the same time. Her sorrow comes from her happiness, and her happiness also comes from her sorrow.

Every time she embraced Hannah, she experienced the happiest sadness in the world.

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