Arrival (2016)

Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

Arrival is a brilliant movie that shows a unique perspective of what non-terrestrial species may represent to humanity. The movie starts with the invasion of 12 alien objects in 12 distinct parts of the world. The locations are random and the countries are working to solve the puzzle.

The “space ships” are just there, inoffensive containing the alien specie inside. The great point, in my opinion, is the “non-humanification” of the them. They don’t look like us, they don’t walk, communicate, breath or behave like us. They are different, as it should be.

The climax of the movie happens with the decision of China cuts off the collaboration with other countries and decide to attack. If that happens, the scientists would not be able to receive the gift from the aliens: their language. For them to translate and understand it, they need the cooperation of all 12 nations and avoid war.

Different from other movies, the aliens are shown as allies and not enemies. The only down point that got too unrealistic was when the main character gets inside the alien atmosphere and survives. Apart from that, it is a movie that makes you think about cooperation and decision make.

The best quote was from Dr. Louise Banks: “The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?”.

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