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This is a movie that gets too sterile at times, but Adams is always there to ground it. Throughout, Adams imbues Louise with a quiet, effective emotional undercurrent that’s essential to the film’s success. The opening scenes detail the birth, brief life and death of a child. Will man’s protective instinct kick in before its science and language leaders can figure out a way to stop it?
As she gets closer and closer to being able to convey that crucial question in a way that it (and its answer) will be understood, the world’s uneasiness continues. Working with the military and a scientist named Ian ( Jeremy Renner), Louise seeks to find the answer to a very simple question: What do you want? The Heptapods, as they’re eventually called, speak in sounds that echo whale noises at times, but Louise quickly learns that written language is the way to communicate, even deciphering the complex way the interstellar tourists write. Despite what they’re telling the public-which is not much of anything at first-the governments of the world have made first contact with the creatures inside, beings that look vaguely like some higher power merged an octopus with a giant hand. For the most part, it succeeds.Īmy Adams gives a confident, affecting performance as Louise, a linguistics expert brought in on the day that 12 unidentified flying objects enter Earth’s orbit. It’s a movie designed to simultaneously challenge viewers, move them and get them talking. How do we approach that which terrifies us? Why is it important to communicate through language and not action? The final act of “Arrival” gets to the big ideas of life that I won’t spoil here, but viewers should know that Villeneuve’s film is not the crowdpleaser of "The Martian," Ridley Scott’s big TIFF premiere last year. It is more about grief, time, communication and compassion than it is warp speed, and it’s a film that asks questions. Joining films like “ Gravity,” “ Interstellar” and “ The Martian” is Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious and moving “Arrival,” a movie that’s about the day the universe changed forever but becomes more focused on a single story even as it’s expanding its worldwide narrative. Over the last few years, we’ve seen the genre used not only to examine the power of space travel or a post-apocalyptic future but as a way to address common humanity more than futuristic adventure stories. Much has been written about the recent surge of personal stories being told through the horror genre in films like “ It Follows,” “ The Witch” and “ The Babadook,” but there’s an equally interesting trend in the science fiction genre as well.
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