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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Mar 29, 2022 ^^
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"Help me understand." I love Col. Weber's character here. Just because a military type isn't a trained scientist doesn't mean they can't think analytically. He doesn't see the point of Dr Banks' approach, but instead of shutting her down, he asks probing questions. Reminds me of General Mann's relationship with Dr Forester in The War of the Worlds (1953). "Joined magnetically? Is that possible?" "If they do it, it is." One of the touches that gives Arrival its feeling of plausibility, versus movies like Day of the Dead (1985) where the military are just idiots who won't listen to the very scientists that they themselves recruited.
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This film sparked my interest in linguistics. I've always had a thing for literature, but I'm increasingly realizing that language is actually very complex. It is so embedded in being human that we don't realize this complexity. Recently I started the book 'For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics', a very nice and intruiging read.
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A wonderfully subtle thing at the end: "Costello" is the first to leave after the introductions.
-- SPOILER!! --
His partner, Abbott, dies saving Louise and Ian from the rogues' bomb.
And because of how the heptapods perceive time, he knew it would happen. For Abbott this was a suicide mission, and he came anyway. And Costello knew he would be going home alone.
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@romilrh
1 year ago
I love that Colonel Weber asks Louise questions and ACTUALLY LISTENS. It was so refreshing to see a military authority character in a sci-fi film that didn't say, "uhh, in English please??" and didn't just want to blow everything up immediately.
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