The boys and girls who have watched "My Love from the Star" have already experienced the kind of extraterrestrials like Professor Du. It is incredible that the aliens are actually more handsome than our people on earth, which has subverted our minds. The traditional cognition of aliens in China is ugly and scary. After all, professors are aliens in idol dramas. Their appearance is the first guarantee. Today, I want to give you Amway’s film "Arrival". "Limb barrel" He did not all teach the appearance of the face, but he has amazing black technology. He really responded to the sentence: "If you are ugly, you must read more." Reading does not improve the appearance, but it will make people have. Amazing skills. Our protagonist "Heptapod" is also ugly to a new height. He can no longer conceive his appearance in the form of a "human", but he predicts that the black technology of the future will not allow us to shy away. The focus of this film is to let us think about humans. The subject of future survival crisis, unlike "2012", which faces disasters directly, lies in the static thinking of "being prepared for danger in times of peace".
The film tells that after 12 alien spacecrafts descended on the earth, the people on earth fell into panic. The source of all panic was the fear of unknown things, because humans did not know what their purpose was to visit the earth, nor did they know how advanced their science and technology were, so the government A linguist and physicist were dispatched to communicate with them to solve all the puzzles of mankind. On the surface, this is the case. In fact, the military of various countries has been fully armed and prepared to face the battle, because it is an alien. When we first discovered us, we can expect their civilization to far surpass ours. Generally, in this situation, according to the logic of the "Law of the Jungle" of mankind, most aliens come to colonize and plunder resources, and communication is just a form before the war begins. That's it.
The overall narrative structure of the film is based on the reminiscences of the heroine (linguist). It can be said that the entire film is the heroine's recollection of the events she experienced, starting with her giving birth to a daughter and reaching her daughter to grow into a 20-something adult. In the process of being sick and dying, the lens presentation is easy to give the illusion that the heroine sees the future. The whole process is the three stages of communication between the heroine and the aliens. Due to language barriers, many misunderstandings have occurred, making the story twists and turns.
The first stage of communication (preliminary understanding of alien grammar)
At the beginning, it was an arrogant army colonel. He took a recording to find the hostess to translate the meaning. It can be said that it is a voice that cannot be called a language, similar to the low roar of an engine. The hostess proposed that the new language must be communicated face-to-face. , The arrogant colonel left with self-righteous military secrets, but the linguist left him an allusion that once caused a war due to communication misunderstandings, the colonel came to pick up the heroine all night, and the narrow colonel informed this. Military secrets related to the survival of mankind. Let them not reveal too many human conditions to aliens. They must learn more about the secrets and purposes of aliens. As a general, he is a qualified and outstanding military strategist, but as a social person. He was very dereliction of duty. The prerequisite for interpersonal interaction is frankness, followed by information sharing. The colonel's mentality is only asking.
Due to the special reasons of the alien spacecraft, each communication can only take 2 hours. Due to the physical environment and air pressure inside the spacecraft, the internal space can only store oxygen for two hours, and the aliens have the ability to determine the life and death of the heroine and the physicist. Quan, the heroine takes off her spacesuit to show her sincerity (to prevent radiation and other pollution), introduces herself to aliens with her body movements and writes words, and the aliens also understand and respond, so that they slowly enter the initial understanding , And master the basic elements of alien languages, and can also initially translate some of their sentences.
The second stage of communication (producing misunderstandings leading to war)
The communication at this stage has risen to the point where it is related to the survival of mankind. The aliens have been here for more than a month. Human beings have only mastered the laws of their language, but have not yet figured out their purpose. People from all over the world also speculate on them. First, their arrival is the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Twelve Apostles. , Second, are they scientists or tourists? When the hostess asked the heptapod: "What are you here for?", the heptapod replied shockingly: "Provide weapons", which immediately aroused everyone's vigilance. The hostess also reluctantly translated it. She thought It is very likely that we have misunderstood the heptapod barrel. Due to the variability of language, their weapons are likely to mean tools, but the military is not as optimistic as it might be.
The military thinks this is a conspiracy of aliens, a conspiracy that wants to provoke people on earth to fight each other. There has been such an allusion many times in history. The British in India and the Germans in Rwanda, so they proposed to engage in it. Block the news before clearing the issue.
This wave is really black Chinese. According to news reports, China no longer believes in creating aliens that divide mankind, and has proposed to the United Nations to protect all mankind. In fact, the U.S. military has long distrusted aliens, and just blocked the news.
The U.S. military has secretly made their little moves, and secretly installed time bombs on the alien spacecraft, regardless of the life and death of the heroine. Fortunately, the heptapod barrel has the ability to predict the future. It has already learned about the bad activities of the U.S. side. Yu Haoyi pushed away the heroine and saved the heroine. Although it has been further understood that the heptapod barrels are here to provide (equipment, technology, methods), the military still maliciously speculates on the heptapod barrels and dispatched troops to attack them.
The third stage of communication (resolve misunderstandings and help humans)
Communication at this stage is crucial and the final communication to resolve misunderstandings. Although humans have maliciously injured Heptapod and killed his companions, Heptapod still believes in the heroine. The military has ended all communication and is preparing to evacuate in order to prevent retaliation. The heroine asks in spite of the danger of her life. The heptapod barrel is ultimately confused, and the heptapod barrel has also answered all questions.
The reason for the misunderstanding. The word "weapon" as an English translation is indeed a weapon, but in the heptapod language, it translates to "language", that is, they provide humans with their language, because their language can predict the future and also Explaining their purpose, after 3000 years, they need human help, and "language can open time", once they master their language, they can predict the future, and they help humans master their language for future communication.
And the heroine informed the authorities about all this, as well as the way and functionality of their language. The heroine also risked collusion with the enemy and treason to help heptapod convey this message to China, avoiding an unnecessary war, and the aliens also Left.
About the life of the heroine. (Obey fate)
In fact, the whole story is about the life of the heroine. When the aliens leave, it will be the second half of the heroine's life. In fact, the heroine did not master the language of the heptapod barrel, but the alien opened up the heroine's intelligence through his technology, allowing the heroine to see her future. Here is a time paradox. When the heroine’s fate has become a foregone conclusion, why didn’t the heroine go to rewrite her fate, but followed the script? Maybe the heroine could not resist her love for physicists, so she knew it well. His married and born baby will get a fatal genetic disease, and the female protagonist will still obey the fate and make a big mistake, causing her 20-year-old daughter to die of illness.
In fact, we think the problem is simple. People with self-consciousness must think that if you don’t marry a physicist (without following the script), you will rewrite the tragic fate. In fact, it’s not like that, even if you change to marry someone else. It can’t resolve the fate. The result of the script is that the daughter gets sick, but the process has changed (becomes another family.)
Here is the same as our ancient mythology, the destiny of the Master Si Ming Xing is in charge of people. After a person’s birth, his genes have determined the life trajectory of a person’s life (fate is also written in the mythology). All human resistance to fate will only cause the points on the curve trajectory to deviate, but the subject’s trajectory will not When the essential changes occur, all struggles will only change the process and will not affect the results of each stage.
And the wise female protagonist chose to obey the fate, and the heptapod barrel also chose to obey the fate, so they took the shortcut of life, so they were born with humans, but the science is so far ahead of us, and most unconscious humans have been resisting. Fate. The thinking here is indeed a bit pessimistic, but this is also the value of the film, and perhaps the truth is always so cruel (unacceptable).
The world view of the heptapod barrel (teleology).
