Interspersed with scenes between Louise and her late daughter (whom we know from the first scene, dies of cancer), the movie is mostly visually-stunning, quiet, understated science fiction with a brainy heroine. Framed as an intergovernmental collaborative effort, each country where a ship has landed has their own team working toward communicating with the aliens. It’s been a few days since the US elections and in the aftermath we have seen how inappropriate, lacking, and inaccurate media and news outlets’ usage of language to describe this moment has been: when honest-to-god Nazis and extremists are rebranded as “alt-right” and lies are rebranded as “post-truth”, it’s worth taking a moment to watch (and read) this thought-provoking, beautiful story.Īrrival starts with the appearance of twelve alien spaceships that appear around the Earth, and it closely follows the story of Louise Banks, a linguist who is enlisted by the US Government to help decipher the aliens’ language, working from the site of the US-based landing site.
As I sit here gathering my thoughts on Arrival, the new movie with Amy Adams, I can’t stop thinking about how timely this story about language and communication is.
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