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Amy Adams Figures Out How to Communicate with Aliens in the Trailer for ‘Arrival’

By Gregon

You know what I’d really like to see? A movie about alien contact, but done by a director with some serious chops and dedication to realism in their story-telling. Someone like, say, Denis Villeneuve – the guy behind Sicario and Prisoners.

So they can TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY for Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Synopsis below, trailer above.

When multiple mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate, including language expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams), mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), and US Army Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker). Humankind teeters on the verge of global war as everyone scrambles for answers – and to find them, Banks, Donnelly and Weber will take a chance that could threaten their lives, and quite possibly humanity.

Arrival is based on the short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. The international trailer gives some other insights into the plot, though watching too many trailers may end up spoiling the film itself.

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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4 Comments

  1. Language Expert
    “… an elite team is put together to investigate, including language expert…”

    That’d be a linguist. How the hell do these writers get jobs that pay? Or are audiences so dumb, they wouldn’t know what a linguist is?

    No, don’t answer that.

    Anyways, I won’t be watching the trailer. Every trailer these days shows the whole goddamn movie. Hell, we’ve already seen Pennywise in his entirety from the new Stephen King’s It adaptation. Nothing’s left for the imagination anymore.

  2. Arrival Movie
    These kind of movies all start off the same way; a group of experts are rounded up by the government to make first contact. I hope this one has an original conclusion. Science fiction movies these days feel like the writers lose interest in their own creation. When it comes time for the big reveal at the end, the audience is left wondering “well that was kind of expected” or “an hour of boring dialogue, an hour of entertaining high strangeness” and then “all wrapped up in the last ten minutes” and finally “no surprises here”.
    I may be wrong with this one, but unlikely.

  3. Try reading The Story of Your Life before the Arrival
    I’m looking forward to the arrival of Arrival too. The Ted Chiang short story, “The Story of Your Life,” on which the film is based might be better research than watching the trailer. It is strange what reading it can do to your perception of time. We do not often question how language filters the reality we perceive. This short story makes you do just that. As Wittgenstein said, “If a lion could speak, we couldn’t understand him.” That is the crux of the dilemma which will confront us if we ever attempt to communicate with an extraterrestrial culture, and that dilemma is what should make the film lots of fun to watch.

    1. Done and done!
      [quote=2bsirius]I’m looking forward to the arrival of Arrival too. The Ted Chiang short story, “The Story of Your Life,” on which the film is based might be better research than watching the trailer. It is strange what reading it can do to your perception of time. We do not often question how language filters the reality we perceive. This short story makes you do just that. As Wittgenstein said, “If a lion could speak, we couldn’t understand him.” That is the crux of the dilemma which will confront us if we ever attempt to communicate with an extraterrestrial culture, and that dilemma is what should make the film lots of fun to watch.[/quote]

      Reading it right now. 🙂

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