A clip from Denis Villeneuve's Arrival where Louise uses the alien language to save humanity. I do not own the rights to this video. It is being used purely for educational purposes.
Criminally underrated movie, imho. My brain exploded when watching this movie and seeing everything unfold. I couldn't wait to rewatch again. I get goosebumps every time during this part and the parts that followed.
@@Applest2oApples Whenever I mention or talk to people about the film, nobody ever seems to know what film I'm talking about. Yes, anecdotal, but it just leads me to believe that not a lot of people saw it. Hell, Black Adam totally bombed as a movie and had nearly twice the box office as Arrival. La La Land came out the same year and also had over double what Arrival had. So yes...underrated. If a movie gets nominated, but yet no one saw it, then it still classifies as underrated. If a movie falls in the forest...
I think it’s probably “rated” about right. Great reviews and $200m worldwide. I think it may seem to be below the radar because it’s an anomaly- a movie with aliens that’s pretty quiet and cerebral. Definitely not a spectacle, so there weren’t many “Whoah!” moments that push it out front and center.
@@myfinancialclimb3121 "leads me to believe that not a lot of people saw it" after you mention "anecdotal" lmao yeah, ok. that logical leap you managed to do even as you were writing that paragraph is astonishingly mind-numbing. jesus christ.
This movie was AMAZING! The fact that it wasn't seen by more people and lauded with praise saddens me. A truly unique story told in an interesting way.
Amy Adams robbed ... not even an Oscar nomination. When I talk to people about this scene and they say they were confused, I just tell them that she's just learned how to remember the future. All the pieces just begin to converge until they fit.
This reveal ("I called you, didn't I?") was one of the few times a movie has given me head-to-toe goosebumps. I was so thrown off when Shang walked into this scene, and when she said that line, I actually did like a comical gasp, with the entire subplot of her 'memories' instantly getting recontextualized. Such a fantastic moment. There's something subtle here too - Shang had been portrayed as having an itchy trigger finger; even the point that the way he chose to communicate with the heptapods with a game of opposition backed that up. But then we meet this Shang; he's humble bordering on deferential to her and he's as smart as she is. Delightful subversion of expectations.
This movies is amazing. Amy Adams is beautiful and perfect. So very well done. Perhaps future generations will discover it and it will get the accolades it clearly deserves.
Great movie, and one that gets better after repeated viewings. At first, you're confused as to what's happening here. On the second viewing, after you realize she's seeing future events, you're thinking it's weird that she wouldn't remember the things she did in the past. Later you realize that, although we the audience are seeing the events occur as separate "visions" in a linear fashion, Louise is seeing it all at once... she's existing in both timeframes at the same moment. Personally, I don't think being able to see your entire timeline at once would unite humans... I think it would drive humans insane. 🤔😵💫
I agree. And it's a silly concept... like thinking someone can exist in two separate physical locations. It's impossible in the same moment, therefore, time is linear!
Every single time, this movie drives me to tears. Amy Adams absolutely steals the show. I can feel all of her emotions, and I feel as if I am inside the story.
I saw it twice and I know that there is lot I did not pick up on. I hope Jeremy Renner can return to work one day. He and Amy Adams were very good in this. 3/2/23
@@clarkthompson8094 Wow here I am and you just wrote this two minutes ago. I saw most of it again today on Comcast, BBC Ch 114. They tend to repeat so it may be on again soon. Still so much that went over my head. Very glad it was on. Thanks for book recommendation. How did writer convey so much in a novella? Will have to read to find out, won't I? 3/12/23 Very late Sunday night, 5:30am 3/13/23 to be technically correct.
@@joankonkle6972 author is Ted Chiang. The book mixes stories of her daughter (future) but the story is diferrent, and the questions they raise for OUR choices is different. There is still sadness that pushes us to asl ourselves if we would do it differently knowing the outcome. In the movie, Renner's scientist character plays a smaller role while in the book he is making key discoveries and there is a deeper connection with math - that partly explsins the alien's perceptiond and ability. I am no mayhematician, but those parts were fascinating. Chiang reconceptuañizes math in a similar way as to language. I taught this novella in one of my ELA classes. Both collections of short stories from Ted Chiang were great. I saw the movie (after reading the story) about a month before my father passed away (last movie we saw together). The movie's soundtrack and its message are forever linked to those memories for me too.
@@clarkthompson8094 Thank so much for letting me know. I am so sorry you lost your father. I am very glad though the two of you shared such a deep and meaningful movie experience together right before he died. The anniversary of my father's 2007 death is coming up later this week and he has been on my mind. Dementia had been working on him for many years before so he was in nursing home. It was good to see Arrival with its focus on loss, yes, but gains were greater and people rose to occasions. Well, I guess Jeremy Renner didn't exactly when he discovered future for his daughter and divorced Louise but maybe he just felt too betrayed by not having the knowing choice she did. Funny you mentioned soundtrack. I noticed its loveliness This time much more than I did before I just looked up ELA and it seems that's not college but before that. What grade did you teach this in? How did kids respond? I would have thought it would have gone over their heads. 3/13/23
@@joankonkle6972 the class was a ninth grade class at a private school and that particular class was challenging because half were very advanced while the other half was 3 or 4 grade levels behind. So I taught two texts simultaneously with the help of a special education teaching aid.
Our minds can't make sense of the film rationally, because they operate on a linear model of time. At least, 99% of our minds - there are probably a handful of Tibetan 50-year full-time meditators and whatnot whose minds do not operate like everyone else's. But the rest of us do, so we cannot conceive of non-linear time. We just can't. We can form a theoretical idea about it, but we can't experience it. So the idea of it is the basis for this film.
The Military (generally) can only offer a Military Solution to any Given Problem because that’s how Military Minds are taught and trained to Think. Which is why the Defence Department embed into the Military, Civilian Special Officers who specialise in Military Planning, amongst other things. These Civilian Special Officers, whilst able to Plan Military Solutions, can also Plan Adaptive Solutions which incorporate Civilian Aspects of Logic. I know this to be true because I spent 15 years attached to the ultra secretive Australian Department of Defence and embedded into the Australian Military, chiefly although not exclusively the Australian Army, specialising in Military Planning, Operational Logistics and other back room stuff I’m not permitted to specify, in the interest of Australian National Security.
I love this movie and as much as I love interstellar...this is very much more deep and meaningful in so many ways...and it really isn't even a story about aliens...thats the great thing...its a story about aliens that is really about US and who WE ARE...and what we can accomplish with a little faith in each other. And sometimes bad things may end up happening but in the end...life is a gift, as short as it is...and as painful as loss can be...even if the way we lose someone is tragic, making the choice to have that person in your life anyway is courageous and the entire movie they set up the duality between Renner's more scientific perspective to her more "spiritual" linguistic perspective which ends up also changing the way they handle loss and the decision to love even if it can't be for that long.
Criminally underrated movie, imho. My brain exploded when watching this movie and seeing everything unfold. I couldn't wait to rewatch again. I get goosebumps every time during this part and the parts that followed.
Underrated? It was rated as one of the best films of the year….
@@Applest2oApples Whenever I mention or talk to people about the film, nobody ever seems to know what film I'm talking about. Yes, anecdotal, but it just leads me to believe that not a lot of people saw it. Hell, Black Adam totally bombed as a movie and had nearly twice the box office as Arrival. La La Land came out the same year and also had over double what Arrival had. So yes...underrated. If a movie gets nominated, but yet no one saw it, then it still classifies as underrated. If a movie falls in the forest...
Yes
I think it’s probably “rated” about right. Great reviews and $200m worldwide. I think it may seem to be below the radar because it’s an anomaly- a movie with aliens that’s pretty quiet and cerebral. Definitely not a spectacle, so there weren’t many “Whoah!” moments that push it out front and center.
@@myfinancialclimb3121 "leads me to believe that not a lot of people saw it" after you mention "anecdotal"
lmao yeah, ok. that logical leap you managed to do even as you were writing that paragraph is astonishingly mind-numbing. jesus christ.
This movie was AMAZING! The fact that it wasn't seen by more people and lauded with praise saddens me. A truly unique story told in an interesting way.
most people are too busy with their tik tok brain mush and doing donuts in their chargers
Amy Adams robbed ... not even an Oscar nomination. When I talk to people about this scene and they say they were confused, I just tell them that she's just learned how to remember the future. All the pieces just begin to converge until they fit.
This reveal ("I called you, didn't I?") was one of the few times a movie has given me head-to-toe goosebumps. I was so thrown off when Shang walked into this scene, and when she said that line, I actually did like a comical gasp, with the entire subplot of her 'memories' instantly getting recontextualized. Such a fantastic moment. There's something subtle here too - Shang had been portrayed as having an itchy trigger finger; even the point that the way he chose to communicate with the heptapods with a game of opposition backed that up. But then we meet this Shang; he's humble bordering on deferential to her and he's as smart as she is. Delightful subversion of expectations.
Such an intelligent film. An oasis in the desert of modern movie-making.
That movie was one of the best I've seen. Amy Adams played her part wonderfully. 10/10!
This movies is amazing. Amy Adams is beautiful and perfect. So very well done. Perhaps future generations will discover it and it will get the accolades it clearly deserves.
Great movie, and one that gets better after repeated viewings. At first, you're confused as to what's happening here. On the second viewing, after you realize she's seeing future events, you're thinking it's weird that she wouldn't remember the things she did in the past. Later you realize that, although we the audience are seeing the events occur as separate "visions" in a linear fashion, Louise is seeing it all at once... she's existing in both timeframes at the same moment. Personally, I don't think being able to see your entire timeline at once would unite humans... I think it would drive humans insane. 🤔😵💫
I agree. And it's a silly concept... like thinking someone can exist in two separate physical locations.
It's impossible in the same moment, therefore, time is linear!
It’d unite them if you could teach it. Which is what she did.
@@hooksxphysicists would disagree my friend
@@hooksxwell its not
One of the best SciFi movies ever. And I've seen a bunch.
I agree with you 100%. And I've been watching Sci-Fi films since the mid-70's.
'Weapon': Tool, idea, ways-and-means, language. It is always a joy to discover clever ideas and better yet when presented in beautiful stories
Every single time, this movie drives me to tears. Amy Adams absolutely steals the show. I can feel all of her emotions, and I feel as if I am inside the story.
This is what true science fiction looks like.
lol ok spaceman
It begins in 5 minutes.
Dennis is a brilliant director
No question. But the brilliant story here is all Ted Chiang.
What if you could only remember what you did next? This is a BRILLIANT film.
An amazingly good movie on so many levels.
I only wish something would come to "save" us. Superman does not exist, we have to save ourselves. The little people have to save themselves.
I saw it twice and I know that there is lot I did not pick up on. I hope Jeremy Renner can return to work one day. He and Amy Adams were very good in this. 3/2/23
I recommend reading the novella too. It was amazing. Some ideas that the movie hadto change ot leave out too.
@@clarkthompson8094 Wow here I am and you just wrote this two minutes ago. I saw most of it again today on Comcast, BBC Ch 114. They tend to repeat so it may be on again soon. Still so much that went over my head. Very glad it was on. Thanks for book recommendation. How did writer convey so much in a novella? Will have to read to find out, won't I? 3/12/23 Very late Sunday night, 5:30am 3/13/23 to be technically correct.
@@joankonkle6972 author is Ted Chiang. The book mixes stories of her daughter (future) but the story is diferrent, and the questions they raise for OUR choices is different. There is still sadness that pushes us to asl ourselves if we would do it differently knowing the outcome.
In the movie, Renner's scientist character plays a smaller role while in the book he is making key discoveries and there is a deeper connection with math - that partly explsins the alien's perceptiond and ability. I am no mayhematician, but those parts were fascinating. Chiang reconceptuañizes math in a similar way as to language.
I taught this novella in one of my ELA classes. Both collections of short stories from Ted Chiang were great.
I saw the movie (after reading the story) about a month before my father passed away (last movie we saw together). The movie's soundtrack and its message are forever linked to those memories for me too.
@@clarkthompson8094 Thank so much for letting me know. I am so sorry you lost your father. I am very glad though the two of you shared such a deep and meaningful movie experience together right before he died. The anniversary of my father's 2007 death is coming up later this week and he has been on my mind. Dementia had been working on him for many years before so he was in nursing home. It was good to see Arrival with its focus on loss, yes, but gains were greater and people rose to occasions. Well, I guess Jeremy Renner didn't exactly when he discovered future for his daughter and divorced Louise but maybe he just felt too betrayed by not having the knowing choice she did.
Funny you mentioned soundtrack. I noticed its loveliness This time much more than I did before
I just looked up ELA and it seems that's not college but before that. What grade did you teach this in? How did kids respond? I would have thought it would have gone over their heads. 3/13/23
@@joankonkle6972 the class was a ninth grade class at a private school and that particular class was challenging because half were very advanced while the other half was 3 or 4 grade levels behind. So I taught two texts simultaneously with the help of a special education teaching aid.
Such a underrated movie 🎥 ,
“To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
- Ugo Betti
Ambassador?
;)
It’s an incredible movie. The story is great. The acting is so good.
SO YOU SAW ME HEALING MISS LETA. THATS WHY YOU BEEPED MY PHONE.
It's not a weapon, it's a gift. 😍
This was a v good film.
This was the biggest wtf moment I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. don’t think I’d wana see time as non linear. Seeing everything at once b too much
FUN FACT: Her daughter's name "Hannah" is a palindrome, spelled the same forward or backwards. Sort of circular, like the heptapods writing.
2:07…”Wake up…Mommy”
It had to work out or else they wouldn't have come, right?
Really interesting movie. I liked it.
Our minds can't make sense of the film rationally, because they operate on a linear model of time. At least, 99% of our minds - there are probably a handful of Tibetan 50-year full-time meditators and whatnot whose minds do not operate like everyone else's. But the rest of us do, so we cannot conceive of non-linear time. We just can't. We can form a theoretical idea about it, but we can't experience it. So the idea of it is the basis for this film.
The Military (generally) can only offer a Military Solution to any Given Problem because that’s how Military Minds are taught and trained to Think.
Which is why the Defence Department embed into the Military, Civilian Special Officers who specialise in Military Planning, amongst other things.
These Civilian Special Officers, whilst able to Plan Military Solutions, can also Plan Adaptive Solutions which incorporate Civilian Aspects of Logic.
I know this to be true because I spent 15 years attached to the ultra secretive Australian Department of Defence and embedded into the Australian Military, chiefly although not exclusively the Australian Army, specialising in Military Planning, Operational Logistics and other back room stuff I’m not permitted to specify, in the interest of Australian National Security.
yeah. lawyers fighting wars. it's shit on a shingle, I tell you what.
2:19 song?
Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for strings in E Major, Op. 22, B. 52: IV Larghetto
@@bierrollerful Darn, nice
2:02
What if???
why did he help?
This movie killed my dad
what
And video killed the radio star
No that was his covid shot.
Nh dude he prolly gettin’ u some milk.
@@vymancross3551 still out getting cigarettes
I hated this slow, self-satisfied movie. Save yourself some time and just watch the UA-cam clips.
I love this movie and as much as I love interstellar...this is very much more deep and meaningful in so many ways...and it really isn't even a story about aliens...thats the great thing...its a story about aliens that is really about US and who WE ARE...and what we can accomplish with a little faith in each other. And sometimes bad things may end up happening but in the end...life is a gift, as short as it is...and as painful as loss can be...even if the way we lose someone is tragic, making the choice to have that person in your life anyway is courageous and the entire movie they set up the duality between Renner's more scientific perspective to her more "spiritual" linguistic perspective which ends up also changing the way they handle loss and the decision to love even if it can't be for that long.
Glad I didn’t pay to watch this crap 🙄
It's a great movie. Watching a clip out of context isn't a good way to gauge a movie.
It's a bit over some peoples head..It's a show not tell film.
Ah, a troll with no soul chips in. Thanks for your “thoughts”.
I'm also glad you didn't.
Troll harder. That's bush-league; you can do better than that.