The more Louise learns about the heptopods, the more we learn about her, as the movie spirals out in ever-widening circles, posing questions about how much-or how little-awareness we human beings tend to have about our own lives.Īrrival gives us a lot to take in, and the picture is big, somber and grand, if in the end somewhat sterile: Villeneuve (director of Prisoners and Sicario), working from Ted Chiang’s short story “Story of Your Life,” may be stretching the profundities a bit too far. She’s a smart, unflappable, matter-of-fact type, not susceptible to emotional extremes: No wonder science-dude Ian is so attracted to her. Louise has suffered a deep personal trauma, outlined succinctly in the movie’s opening minutes. Meanwhile Louise-with the help of theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner)-is desperate to discern the aliens’ intentions by learning their language, expressed in an alphabet of circles dotted with not-so-random ink splotches. The United States military is veering toward aggression too, although no one is really sure what to do. But as usual, Earthlings aren’t so good at communicating with one another: China wants to attack the heptapods, before the heptapods attack it. (In the States, rural Montana gets the honors.) Louise makes fairly efficient progress in her efforts to communicate with these interlopers, seven-legged creatures with big heads, wrinkly skin and no discernible mouths, who come to be called heptopods. military to decipher the language of alien beings who have arrived on Earth in 12 matching stone-gray contact-lens-shaped ships, each parked in a different country.
Louise Banks, a linguist brought in by the U.S. But by this morning, we’d all turned our attention to the next big-deal screening, of Denis Villeneuve’s pensive science fiction parable Arrival. It’s only Day 2 of the Venice Film Festival and already everything’s cooking: Yesterday, critics and journalists greeted the opening film, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, with a fairly rapturous reception.
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