When I first started watching Arrival I immediately thought to myself “not another one of these movies”. The first scene of the movie was a montage of a little girl growing up with her mother and dying from some kind of disease in her teens with her mother crying at the bedside. That scene immediately made me think that this movie was going to be an awful tear jerker but it turns out it was not. Instead Arrival is a science fiction film that focuses on language and how it affects people rather than death and sadness. After the starting scene the plot begins with 12 alien ships landing all around the world. We find out that the mother, Louise, is a linguistics professor and the US government hires her to try and learn the aliens language because the government wants to find out why the aliens are on Earth. The movie as a whole is not an action movie like most sci fi films, instead it is a very thought provoking movie and a bit of a psychological thriller. The trailer really does a great job at showing the premise of the movie and it helps prepare the audience for a psychological thriller through the dramatic music and the characters script. The movie also asks or infers many deep questions that adds to the suspense, all of which are spoilers so I won’t bother stating them. To emphasise the questions and the psychology underneath the movie uses a very bland or dull color scheme throughout to focus the audience to the overall plot rather than what was happening at that moment. Overall the movie was very well made and did a great job at illustrating the questions and psychology while keeping the audience engaged.
I like the movie because of how thrilling and thought provoking it was. I also really loved how they asked just enough deep questions to get me thinking and also followed those questions with downtime so I could contemplate the questions. But the best part was how it didn’t focus on the dead daughter too much and kept the movie about the aliens and not emotional depression. I would recommend this movie to anyone who wants a good thought provoking movie.
Nice specific details about what you liked and feared while watching the film. Your sense of taste is a hard thing to discuss, but you’re getting there with that second paragraph. The introduction gives us a kind of narrative sense of your taste (introduced a conflict and then the development from that initial moment), and the last paragraph talks about it too. Would have liked to see some aspect of the trailer in particular come into your analysis (instead of seeing it just attached at the end). Happy you enjoyed Arrival, but don’t be afraid of providing that specific depiction of the Be Reel post (Good Good, it seems?)
ReplyDeleteHey Erich, I believe this movie "was another one of those movies". The movie was corny anti-climatic and uninteresting. I found the linguist part to be boring. This entire movie was not thrilling and I would not give this a good-good rating. It was objectively mediocre and subjectively boring.
ReplyDeleteHey Erich, I believe this movie "was another one of those movies". The movie was corny anti-climatic and uninteresting. I found the linguist part to be boring. This entire movie was not thrilling and I would not give this a good-good rating. It was objectively mediocre and subjectively boring.
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