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The director Villeneuve is one of the reasons for me to watch this film, and his "Prisoner" is a recommended movie. Before I saw "Arrival", I heard about the interpretation of alien language in it, and I didn't see the common scenes of fighting with aliens in American blockbusters, so it's hard to guess what the main body of the film looks like. . After watching it, the movie that came to my mind was actually "The Sixth Sense", which is also about seeing things others can't see. matter.
two "advents"
No matter what the narrative structure is, there are two meanings of coming. One is the arrival of the alien "heptapod barrel", with which humans try to communicate without conflict. A linguist (the heroine), another male physics professor, and army staff were sent into the alien cabin countless times, and they had a friendly "conversation" with the "heptapod" alien through a layer of glass . After linguists gradually master each other's language, what humans want to know most is whether they will attack humans.
After misunderstood alien language and misunderstood human actions (placement of dynamite), the contradiction is intensified, and "Heptapods" summons linguists alone. The girl who flashed back many times at the beginning and in the middle of the film, the audience already knew that she was the daughter of the heroine, but in this communication with aliens, the linguist asked who the child was? This was a crucial turning point, and some people seemed to understand what was going on. In the process of continuously moving towards the truth and revealing the secret, a new life is ushered in.
Accidental and inevitable choice
Linguists were found by the government and the military. This seems to be an accidental choice, but it is actually a necessity. If it wasn't for her, the whole story would not be what it is now, or it would be another story.
The generals of the Chinese side have become an important element, why is it China? This may be related to the fact that the author of the original novel is a Chinese writer, which is a choice of the author. And the heroine's choice is to call General Shang to reverse the fate of the world. What she said - the last words of General Shang's wife, was the same as the "Sixth Sense" she mentioned at the beginning. She told things that others could not see, which proved more powerful than anything else that she could foresee the future "supernatural". ability".
narrative structure
The last moments of the film seem to deduce the secret process of suspense films. People realize that the opening memory of their daughter is actually something that happens in the future. Audiences with good memory will suddenly recall the meaning behind the previous dialogues, and they will feel a sudden feeling. This narrative structure gives the child a sense of ritual, a natural echo of the beginning and end, and even the relationship between the heroine and the physicist has become the drama of the guessing game. There must have been a lot of speculation about what had to happen to these two. When the audience is not as persistent in the relationship between men and women as at the beginning, they find that the two still come together, but this is not the end, it all happened before, so the narrative structure makes the overall story more like a memoir with ups and downs. This method successfully accomplished the completion of "advent".
After the film came out, the comment about the smog really blew me away. But I think, even if the creators really have such intentions, this point will not be a reason for me to pay attention to the film. Because, it has no effect on the film conveying thinking about the fate of mankind and its own predicament. Yeah, if you could see the future, would you think of ways to change your life? Or, even if you work hard to change, will your destiny still come in the end? Perhaps, this is our destiny: to end in confusion and incomprehension.
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