Hidden Meaning in Arrival - Earthling Cinema
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What if an alien in the future stumbled upon Denis Villeneuve's Arrival? Welcome to Earthling Cinema, where we examine the last remaining artifacts of a once-proud culture and try to understand what human lives were like before their planet was destroyed. I'm your host, Garyx Wormuloid.
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This week's film:
Arrival (2016)
Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Production Co: FilmNation Entertainment, Lava Bear Films, 21 Laps Entertainment
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Written by: Ben Steiner
Directed by: Jared Bauer
Analysis by: Kevin Winzer
Starring: Mark Schroeder ( / mark_schroeder )
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Original Music by: David Krystal (www.davidkrystalmusic.com)
Opening Animation by: Danny Rapaport
Produced by: Jacob S. Salamon
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![Can language change the way you think? [The Science of Arrival]](/img/n.gif)
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Holy shit, I literally just finished watching this movie about 5 minutes ago.
It's as if I was instructed by the heptapods to watch it in advance.
Creepy
same here!
you gotta be kidding me
DangerousRetard3 sweeeet. Arrival is one of my favs.
I didn't even watched it, I just remembered I watched it in the future.
Here's the really mindblowing thing--you watched that movie two thousand years ago and are just perceiving this video to have come out conveniently at the right time because the movie taught you their language and now you're just trapped in their psychotic time-is-nothing perception of reality. And I'm a caveman from way before the time that move came out. Ook ook.
My favorite bit of this movie is that audience puts a perception on Amy's character. We see her actions and behaviour as someone in grief whose lost it all. But in reality she's a blank slate since none of her tragedy has taken place. The screenwriters basically made us do the work in developing her character- it's both lazy and brilliant. Moral of the story don't work hard work smart lmao
gLeeksFF nice job watching a Nerdwriter video LMAO
gLeeksFF your comment is both original and insightful. unfortunately, the original bits aren't insightful and the insightful bits aren't original.
yes I also saw the nerdwriter video
gLeeksFF I'm really glad for this transcript of a nerdwriter video
Nice to know I'm on the same page as Nerdwriter
"humans process everything through the instagram filter of their own experiences."
love this.
It doesn't alter time in a magical way, it alters the perception of time of the person learning the language, from linear to circular, so the person would see all time (his/her past, present and future) at once, being able to access each instant. So learning hectapod will give you Dr Manhattan's timey wimey vision. Great video.
Reminds me of Slaughter House 5.
Yes, thank you.
Arrival suggests that the universe is a deterministic, and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is correct. Through this, it proposes that one's perception of time can be altered by rewiring the brain via Heptapod-B. She's not jumping forward through time; she's experiencing her predestined fate all at once.
It's also interesting the suggestion that our form influences how we evolved to perceive time and developed a language. Heptapods are "circular" in shape, so they don't have a clear concept of in front and behind, they have a radial reach around them, while we have a "linear" shape, with things clearly ahead and behind us. There is probably a more scientific explanation of this concept somewhere :D
Is it really circular time if you're viewing it all at once? Surely that's the absence of time? Idk x
MendMyWings 7 time is a measurement of the rate of change in physical processes. It exists, but our thinking is linear, while nature is cyclical.
I jumped out of my chair when I got this notification. Now I'm covered in coffee.
Great breakdown of an amazing film.
2016 wasn't a huge year for movies. Arrival was a standout.
Yeah, he hit the nail on the head with "translator powers."
Also this: 1:45 so, _so_ much this. Learning a language will not change the way your brain functions, and allow you to somehow shift your perception through time, or have "flash forwards."
Nice cinematography, some nice concepts, but the premise of the film is nonsensical.
It's not nonsensical, just overdone. As is anything Hollywood.
The premise, that language changes your perspective on the world, is makes a lot of sense.
Look up languages that don't have time, or the directional words in Aboriginal languages if you want to learn examples.
Zedek You do realise the premise on the film is based on actual studies? The time travel is ofc a scifi element, but your perception of reality changes through language use.
Zedek Zedek true. There's also no mystical force that allows you to choke someone without touching them, but we still enjoy star wars. Its *sci-fi*. Feel free to suspend your disbelief if only for a moment.
Zedek you are wrong. languages (especially your mother tongues ) actually shape thought process.
She learns an alien language in a week.
And after 3 years of Spanish in high school, I can only say the numbers 1-12
James Burgess Trece. Boom, bitch. Now you know 1-13. You can thank me later.
James Burgess its not a week its like a year
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10,000 Subscribers without Videos I learned that shit from Dora
She was Deported after awhile
She was there for months.
Heh Amy Adams looking like she hasn't age in 10 years is what happen in real life
She's a vampire, you have to look at the teeth of "people."
@@MastaSmack You’re ridiculous. 🙄
She didn't learn the language in a week, she took the knowledge of the language from her future self ;)
But, when did she learn it?
The moment she was able to see the future
Reionder
Well that breaks causality, seriously the knowledge just popped into existence?
See it as a bootstrap paradox. The same thing happens with the Chinese emperor. She only learns about what the emperor said after she did it
wait werent the reason because they are 4th dimensional specie, so it never pop up but they made her aware of it in some partial way.
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Hawkeye is married!! Wait till the Avengers hear about this.
hawkeye is married in the mcu
Superman gone fuck him up
i heard thor is the woman when hawkeye is gone
He left her because she told him their baby would die, I think.
Which is a pretty shitty thing to do as a dad. Or as a human being. Too bad she didn't see _that_ coming.
"And let's just chill out for once....KAREN!"
Garax Wormuloid was slaying Karens long before it became cool.
Watched this film twice at the movies. Really grabbed my attention and wouldn't get out of my head. These days it is so difficult to find an intellectual film like that, I just brought me even more respect for Dennis Villeneuve. Can't wait for Blade Runner 2049!
Henrique Augustus And Dune, his passion project
if you studied the hepta pod language you would know that they both turned out to be good ass movies
BR2049 was a generic slog but Dune was great. Telling you this from the future so you know it's a message you can trust.
I felt like this was more of a summary of a plot than any in depth analysis of meaning. Is that because the movie was so forward with its perspective?
Same
Corwin Rainier same
Finally! Arrival was the only movie that impressed me in 2016, such a thought-provoking piece
wait... i thought this was philosophy of Arrival xD
Arrival was phenomenal but the ONLY movie that impressed you in 2016? Interesting.
WalkUpSlowlyDownSmash yup that I watched. Hidden figures was great but not really thought provoking. I missed moonlight and fences
BvS made me do some rethinking of DC ever making a good movie.
1:40 the movie takes the premise of time as the fourth dimmension, which we as three-dimmensional beings can only experience linearly. the heptapods are able to percieve the fourth dimmension so they can experience time non-linearly (they don't "alter" time). The movie takes some liberties saying that we can obtain their perception of time through language, but the stuff with time in this movie actually makes lots of sense and it's very clever, I didn't expect it at all
Lucas Lambrey The novel Jerusalem, by Alan Moore goes deep into this subject. I recomend it. Moore also believes that, since language alters perception, a skillfull artist can use language to alter his audience's world view. He tries to teache us to see time as Arrival's heptopods through the novel. I have not finished it (it's got more words than the bible) but i can tell you that each chapter talks about simultanious time in a different way.
Sapir-Worf hypothesis is actually bullshit, I was disappointed when the movie turned out to be depicting the very radical variation of this hypothesis. Language won't make anyone perceive time without ending/beginning. It's literally impossible. For me, it's sad how a lot of people took this movie seriously, I can't explain why Arrival has 8.0 iMDB either. Really not worth it.
Irrrakli I'm quite sure the movie wasn't literally suggesting that. It's just a cool sci-fi way to explore the idea of language affecting one's perspective and vice versa, which absolutely does happen
irrrakli? um all sci fi tend to go beyond the limits of plausible science, thats the fi part. it wasn't a documentary. and its not completely bullshit, there's a reason why learning words for specific emotions, for example, helps manage them better.
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People process everything through their Instagram's filter of their experiences. Dayuuum.
she only gave hawk eye a chance for the sex cuz let's be real superman would probably kill her if he tries that
Ace head I would let Superman kill me
And because Superman doesn't exist in her universe. And also he's dead.
Well... ''dead''.
'dieded' would be appropriate
Ace head Hah I almost didn't Laugh but then I didn't do so anyway
KAREN IS BACKKKKKK BITCHES
Karen never left thats the problem
Underrated movie.
8/10 imdb, 94% rotten and I'm too lazy to google more sites. looks like people are rating it pretty well.
Its weird how you review movies in chronilogical order for humans in the years 2000 to 2025. GIVE US THE "AVENGERS 10:SECRET WARS" or "STAR WARS: EPISODE 19" EARTHLING CINEMA REVIEWS ALREADY.
I'd say review "Justice League 22: Crisis on Infinite Earths" but due to the box office flop and low Galactic Tomatoes score, i wouldn't blame you. They really need to stop using that Zack Synder cyborg and find someone else to man the Warners Cosmos DCU.
They already have done that; the issue is you don't perceive time non-linearly.
FREEMAN DUBSTEP silly mortal, Star Wars wont make it that far.
silly singular intelligence star wars will make it far beyond that.
Chill out for once, KAREN! LOL
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Great stuff as usual wisecrack, keep them coming
Can you make The Philosophy of Hamilton, please?
Benjamin Abramowitz yes plz
I second this. There's quite a lot hidden in that musical.
Benjamin Abramowitz Lin-Manuel Miranda is a terrible hack.
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Yay. Another one so soon? tyvm!
Arrival might be my most favourite film of all time. Thanks for giving your funky breakdown!
Screamed when I saw this notification. Wisecrack never fails to deliver!
When are we getting The Hidden Meaning in Split?
Saw this in my inbox.
Decided to watch the movie.
Watched this issue of Earthling Cinema.
Had a great talk afterwards.
Thanked you for a wonderful evening.
One of my favorite videos. Thank you, I loved this film.
Hey there wisecrack, love your shit. Just wanted to point out something about this, Mr. Wormuloid (sorry if that's spelled wrong) said that it took Louise about a week to learn the heptapod language and makes a joke about it. If you rewatch the film and pay attention to the scene where Jeremy Renner narrates their progress on understanding the heptapods, he mentions that it's been a few months since the heptapods arrived. This means Louise had months to understand the language. I know that doesn't mean much since it is an alien language and it would take a person much longer to become fluent in an extraterrestrial language, but it does give Louise a reasonable amount of time to learn the language. Love your vids, can't wait to see what have planned for Logan, and wubba lubba dub dub!
It's a bit more complicated than that though, since she only needed to reach the inflection point where she could remember her future self writing the book and teaching the language at her uni. It's like coming up with a design for a time machine and hey presto, your future self shows up with the completed device.
Otherwise known as cheating. Does she leave herself a watch behind the shrubbery too?
What a helpful and insightful analogy, nice one Jeremy
Maybe because Mr. W is an ALIEN, and he ages differently than us mere humans (ie a human week is a wormuloid day). Spleesh.. stop being such a humanist.
Wubba lubba dub dub - "I am in great pain"
*"Goodbye in Chinese"*
As a linguist (in training), I must say... this really did the major linguistic concepts of the film justice.
this was an awesome video! subscribed
Aww, damn. My Arrival is late and now everyone will miss this dad joke.
Garrex must be pissed off when his cousins visit earth without telling him....
If only this video was uploaded last week, because it would have saved me from the hassle of trying to explain this film to my mother.
Just watched the movie, didn't expect Wisecrack to review it an hour later!
Saw the movie and I just knew wisecrack was gonna do a video on it.
YAY :3
I would love to know mr. Wormuloid's opinion on the galactic terrorist known as Rick Sanchez (not a full-video-analysis, just a simple statement).
I've read somewhere that Arrival can be also a metaphor of cinema evolution: the white screen on the alien ship is like a wide format screen in a theater, the rebellion of people around earth is like frightened audience in front of Lumiere films etc
This movie was the last movie my brother and I last watched before he went missing. :'(
No joke this still fucks me up until now.
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I really liked this movie, and you did it justice. Great as always
OMG, you totally can rewind it and watch it forward again! So cool! Try it! I wonder if that trick works on any other UA-cam videos...
What! nothing on Fermat's principle?
The entire premise of the movie is based on Fermat's principle. 2 species who evolved in a world with the same physical and mathematical laws went about formulating those laws with different approaches. Most of the physics knowledge that humans have built upon has a causal(causation) approach. While the heptapod way of thinking is purposive. The perception of time is thus a metaphor for this different way of thinking.
Max Richter - The Nature of Daylight this song in arrival ........
Perfect timing! I just saw it yesterday!
hahahaha... These videos are brilliant, I love them. Garix, you're analysis is spot on, thank you.
amy was truly snubbed :(
An American film depicting China as the more trigger happy country. Ha.
to be honest, they are QUITE trigger happy. US too, don't get me wrong, they, yet again, are the good guys in this movie. Just saying that China is a social-political power for a reason.
Not to mention its general apparently abandoned days of military mobilization and preparation to attack a possible threat, because some American women spoke broken Chinese across an international phone.
To be fair, the Americans were equally as trigger happy, they just had Louise to make them chill
Not nearly as trigger happy.
Qiu Shuang that Chinese was broken af to be honest...hope they learn it more professionally next time
Sweet vid. I loved Arrival. Do Enter The Void next!
genuinely made me LOL a couple times. This is a rare thing, congratulations.
If the aliens could see any point in time or whatever, then why didn't they go to a time when someone speaks to them in English to learn the language?
it's a movie, relax, IXPANTENCO!
Precisely, and so many people defend this film thinking it is deeper than it actually is.
Ixpantenco they did, they prep the human to be ready in 3k years by literally visiting them and changing the entire human race future.
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You never cease to make me laugh out loud.
This is great! Pokes fun yet appreciates the film.
But... Wouldn't humans be physically unable to understand the Heptapod language like they do? Wouldn't humans just assign the human understanding of those symbols to words and concepts that we already understand? Wouldn't it need to be a spoken language for it to have any effect on actual human understanding of the heptapod language? If the chinese general can relay knowledge to the past, doesn't that mean that time isn't happening all at once and that whatever the heptapods need humans for in the future probably isn't going to happen, since time isn't actually cyclical?
This movie sounds dumb.
I think you have it backwards. The Chinese general in the future can tell her what she did to save the day in the past and she can then use that knowledge back in the past because all time IS happening all at once. In this movie, she has no past, present, future. Because time is nonlinear, there is no past to go back to, no future to go forwards to. Every moment in this movie is happening at the same time, she's living each moment, not reliving each moment. Learning the language gave her the ability to perceive the true nature of time, which is why she can switch between all these moments in her life. This means she has no free will, she will always have that daughter and the daughter will always die that way and her husband will always leave her.
Again, she is not learning the language, she is assigning human words and concepts to heptapod symbols. Additionally, if she is experiencing all of her life at the same time and has no control over it, she cannot use any information she has about future events because she has control over it.
She does have control over it. She learns the language, which allows her to perceive the true nature of time, which allows her to change her 'moment' as if she were changing a channel on the tv. On television all these channels are displaying content as the same time, the channel surfer can hop from one channel to another at will. That's what she can do towards the end of the movie. She cannot use information about future events because there is no future, it's all now. That's why the Chinese general can tell her what she did before she did it. In linear time that makes no sense, since he couldn't know what she did until after she did it. In nonlinear time it makes sense, since there is no cause and effect involved.
She did learn the language. Language serves to allow communication. She and the aliens were able to communicate. Those symbols do mean something and she figured out what. She could then translate them into the human equivalent. It's the same concept as English to French or any language.
The events fall into place leading to the future. Like in terminator 2 ,that killing arnie in T1 leads to skynet therefore sarah and kyle changed nothing.
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Oh, that one show where the dead girl kept putting herself in terrible situations, and was surprised by negative outcomes? "That social circle is full of terrible people, I think I'll continue to hang out with them."
Thank you for posting this.
That shit was dumb as fuck. Anyone who kills themselves over some fuckshit that happened in high school is never going to be prepared for the adult world.
You seriously have anger issues, throwing a hissy fit over a piece of fiction.
I love this movie - it recently got released here in Germany and I have to tell you - it was the first movie in years, which gave me goosebumps during it's story climax.
i think in the movie the language doesn't have the power to alter time but has the power to alter how we perceive time which leads to her multiple visions of the future
Tbh, I saw it as a second rate Interstellar.
Wasn't bad or anything, just predictable.
alZiiHardstylez You actually predicted the ending of this movie? Kudos to you, man!
SuperNoone89 Tbh interstellar wasn't as good as Nolan's other films(IMO)
Also I find arrival a bit more intriguing (again IMO)
SuperNoone89To each their own, I guess...
They literally explained the ending at the start of the movie.
"I used to think this was the beginning of your story. *Memory* is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We are so *bound* by *time*, by its *order*. I remember moments in the middle and this was the end… But now I’m not sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your life, like the day they arrived."
The film was garbage. Not just on this planet. The galaxy voted, and we achieved consensus ... garbage.
4:05 "KAREN"
I'm dead - I love that reoccurring joke. haha
Great work! I was hopping you can do Jacob's Ladder.
As a HUGE Denis Villneuve fan, I hate to say it, but,
_Arrival_ sucked. It really, really, really sucked.
It was boring...kind of empty.
But I wouldn't say it sucked. Your expectations are to high due to Villeneuve.
Turned the movie off at 25 minutes. It was fucking boring!
Amazing as usual, please do the invitation, or nocturnal animals!!!
i really loved this serie. bring it back please
First
Alien: What is my purpose?
Rick: Pass language
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"Rewound and watched again." Got to love it!
The film also makes the assumption that these aliens had a visual language that we could perceive. They never showed and eyes so this was pretty lucky for the aliens/humans.
The language thing of seeing though time is based off of Warf's theory that basically states that language changes the way you think and perceive things.
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Fell asleep during this movie. One of the best nap I ever had
What a great movie, so little to criticize, subtle, understated and effective.
Wisecrack, next one better be Apocalypse Now. I've seen that movie a million times and I've studied it to death. A real classic.
this movie was awesome. thank you garrax
Thank you Garyx Wormuloid, you make understanding human movies a little bit easier.
loved it. I was a bit scared you were gonna bash it cuz this movie is really smart and its dear to my heart.
you guys are the best!!! keep up the great work!!!
please do:
1) the princess bride
2) into the woods
3) Moana
4) Miss Perigrean's home...
5) Ghostbusters
6) the little mermaid
7) Star wars 1,2,3,7
8) the martin
9) Indiana Jones
10) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2!!!!!!!!
omg how have i just found this thank you for beaming this to my planet
Please do Fargo!!!!!
Also, LOVED THIS MOVIE AND THIS VIDEO. Keep up the good work.
You Sir are either a Genius or a Mad Man but possibly both. One of the best reviews I've seen. is it me are did this file feel like Epoch?
which can be rewound and watched again! Great line.
oh juan just finished this movie this morning good that this video is here
Every time I watch wisecrack I feels smarter, although I have a zoology test tomorrow and this doesn't help to much, still great video.
Arrival is easily one of the best sci-fi movies to come out in the past 25 years.
Dear Garyx Wormuloid, Coherence is the movie you'd want to cover.
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