![]() ![]() It’s heroine, Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams), is a professor of comparative linguistics who was once seconded as a military advisor to translate a video of Farsi-speaking insurgents. You’d think the same would apply to alien squid monsters, but Arrival calls bullshit on this idea. The point he was making, I think, is that the experiential differences between a human being and an animal are so incomprehensibly vast that even if we shared a language, we’d have nothing worth saying to each other. ![]() The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously stated that if a lion could speak, we wouldn’t be able to understand him. Or, better yet, go out and watch the movie, then come back when you’re done. We’re all adults here, so I’m going to talk openly about that twist and various other leaky holes in Arrival’s plot, any one of which the audience could fall down and break their legs at the bottom of. ![]()
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