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Are there any movies similar movies which are so thoughtful, poignant? I am so very impressed by Arrival, that I am now very keen to experience more such movies which leave a profound impact. Thanks in advance.
Excellent video. Thank you ❤
Crazy how Denis has only gotten better since this video was released.
I enjoy an intellectual film, those ones that get you thinking….However this was a complete mess…..a bit too clever for the mainstream audience. Its heavy focus on the couples personal relationship was like pulling teeth, i didn’t come to the cinema for a therapy session. I came to watch a sci-fi movie, the aliens coming to earth and what that meant for us. This long road journey to that answer via the couple’s personal problems was very much bait & switch….that tactic is disingenuous and reinforces that without the sci-fi bait, this couples therapy session would have been a direct to DVD unnoticed release. Shame moviegoers are endlessly hoodwinked.
Arrival is my second favorite film of all time, right behind Schindler's List and right in front of Everything Everywhere All at Once
The second watch is so much more tragic and heartbreaking
IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THIS MOVIE. YOU ARE SO LUCKY. GO WATCH IT NOW
i miss when a video is uploaded 7 years ago, felt old. not like it was uploaded yesterday .
time flies
Not sure why I ended up here again, but your words at 0:50 perfectly describe my feelings, when watching "the bear". Finally a director who knows how to tell a story in video format. Every cut, every frame is so perfectly focused on what is important right now. In the first couple minutes you learn more, than in a couple hours in worse examples.
It's fascinating and awe inspiring to feel the difference, when you have the pleasure to see a masterpiece.
Wow!! That was such an incredible review, you’re amazing. Thank you for posting this video.
this movie was a borderline bore and hollywood cliche
Incredible movie.
This is a profoundly good movie. So often, we think of the "bad guys" as being the "others"; the "unknowns". This movie presents a story where the "others" are good and shows instead that monstrosities are so often wrought by human hands.
This movie isn't good though. Its incredibly contrived, relying on dumb and immoral characters to force drama with pretentious undertones. The main character doesn't even take the right lesson away from this gift, to the point to where the gift is practically useless as a construct other than to shoot the plot in a convenient order. Did I mention how dumb the characters and dialogue are. This director is the epitome of fools gold pretentious slop. Its crafted from the kind of "cleverness" that would be suitable for a short story but it would still have to be better written than this to be worth the time to read.
The heptapods reminded me of Orwell's simile: like a cuttlefish squirting ink. The aliens do look like octopi, which also squirt. So this movie is an alien version of my octopus teacher.
muhtesem muhtesem muhtesem,,,wonderful,,,
this is a movie I've always tried hard to like, but no matter how much people praise all of these other aspects, there is a huge hole right thru the most important premise in the film, the idea that we could EVER bridge that barrier, and they of course skipped it because there was no way to express it realistically.
Hang on! That was just getting interesting when it stopped! I've watched this film and/or parts of it at least a dozen times. It's beautifully shot and acted and if you watch Wind River, you'll see that Jeremy Renner has a lot to give as an actor.
The premise of the film is mind-blowing when you realise what the Heptapods are giving mankind and then the rest of the film drops into place, like a connected series of Tetris blocks and makes you gasp out loud at the audacity of it.
Thumbs up for the movie. 7 out of 10 from me. It is re-watchable too.
Superb film, excellently scripted and acted
Arrival was poor execution it was such a neat idea but they just did nothing with it. It's like the aliens were wedged in just to pretend this was a sci Fi film.
No idea why do many people kiss ass with this movie it is an hour and 56 min I can never get back.
I actually thought arrival was so bad that I read the title as if it was a response to how bad arrival was. I thought finally someone who gets it… Nope it's a horrible video about how good a shit film was… Arrival was just terrible writing, horrible plot and bad science
As always, a brilliant analysis of Villeneuve's keen use of cinematic language. It's a fantastic adaptation of the original material — Ted Chiang's novella ' Story of Your Life is phenomenal and deserves mentioning — and while I know it's an adaptation and that some changes were necessary, and in fact added themes and ideas not explored in depth in the novella, I sometimes wish that the whole idea of Louise having used her knowledge of the future to shape the present had been handled differently. That goes against the actual ideas expressed in the novella — Louise doesn't "use that skill to access future events to influence her present", nor does she really make some conscious choice to have her daughter despite knowing her daughter will die. In the novella, Louise's ability to see much in the way the aliens do leads to the realization that her destiny is to act according to that future, not to change it for her own agenda.
In Ted Chiang's words, "What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?"
Of course, framing it as a choice, a willingness to propel oneself towards certain pain for the joy, is a lot more cinematic. But I feel that the ideas expressed in the book have a more beautiful complexity to them.
Yeah, sure. Protagonist has super powers, so she can see into the future, so this way the plot can happen.
Everything the video says, the short story (by Ted Chiang) which the movie is based on does x10. I think the medium of writing might be inherently less linear than film, and therefore more appropriate for the kind of message this story gets across.
I watched this from the perspective of being newly Catholic and trying to answer the problem of suffering. Why does God create us knowing we will suffer? It’s because we always existed in His mind before we were created and He already loved us. He sees all of time as if every moment is happening in the present. Her daughter existed and was a person even before her conception. She still had complete free will to choose to create her but the love she felt was real and her choice was already made
This movie is incredible. It's absolutely incredible.
It was an ok movie. Not every movie has to be a amazing to everyone. Everything everywhere all at once and The whale are great mental health movies but, not everyone will appreciate them for what they are. And that's ok.
All I can say about Arrival is just watch Contact instead
This movie is amazing. Anyone who says this movie is bad is the type of person that expects every alien movie to be full of explosions and dominic torreto to somehow save the day
I went to university for linguistics. There are some issues I have with the linguistics in the film but otherwise I feel at its core it is so good that when people don't understand what my degree is in, I just say "The sort of stuff they did in Arrival" and people understand. It does give me a bit of pride to say that too 😅
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