Monday, November 05, 2018

Arrival

Arrival is a 2016 first contact science fiction film on the nature of time. I find the concept of non-linear time fascinating, and this movie is brilliant. And gorgeous. The score is perfect. It's directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker.

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Rolling Stone concludes by saying, "the film gets inside your head and emerges as something intimate and epic, a linguistics odyssey through space and time. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of." The New Yorker says, "what lingers, days after you leave the cinema, is neither the wizardry nor the climax but the zephyr of emotional intensity that blows through the film." The Atlantic concludes by calling it "the best film of the year, ambitious in conception and extraordinary in execution".

Roger Ebert's site calls it "ambitious and moving" and "ambitious, accomplished filmmaking that deserves an audience". Rotten Tomatoes has a critics rating of 94%.

12 comments:

  1. Sounds such an interesting film! Thanks for the recommendation and wishing you a happy new week! J 😊 x

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    1. Interesting, yes. Original concepts are hard to come by, and this wasn't an idea you see explored often.

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  2. Goodness. For something this recent, I have never heard of this. Thanks for the review, though.

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    1. My younger son put me onto this one. I had never heard of it either.

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  3. I have this movie in my Netflix queue! Sounds really good. I do love sci-fi! :)

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    1. I hope you like it! I'd watch it again :)

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  4. Sorry, not my cup of tea, I am not a sci-fi fan. Have a nice day, Valerie

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  5. Now this is a movie I did see. I cannot say that it got inside my head ... & I don't remember it as a great or good movie. Ummm maybe I was missing something.

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    1. I was just so excited to see a different kind of alien movie. There's a lot of sameness out there, but this was different :)

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