Arrival: Ending Explained

[@mrpoool1015]

Sometimes movies go beyond my imagination and create something like this

[@rodnysantiago]

Mr Poool Yeah, it's crazy what we can imagine or create. I saw the movie today and I was so lost, I had to look for an explanation because I dint knew the message or the meaning of the movie.

[@bradpitt6373]

Holy shit your imagination must be pretty small if this twist was beyond your imagination.

[@N0N0111]

Most good movies have deep meanings and a message for life.

[@rociocontreras8640]

the movie was based on a book... the book was amazing... the movie was also really good

[@jimmi1221]

I had a son, he died at age 5 months. Later he appeared in my dream. I asked him his life was worthwhile, he responded, yes I got know my father.

[@slojinPA]

James, I am so sorry for your loss and so happy you had communication with him in a non-traditional way. You did a great job in helping your son to feel love.

[@joemac84]

I can’t imagine what you went through losing your son. What he said in your dream.. wow, words can’t express it. You will see him again, but not yet

[@faaea13]

How amazing. Beautiful and amazing

[@garageflower7154]

My father died in September and I have been dreaming about him lots recently, I usually wake up in tears thought as the grief is still very raw. I'm very sorry to hear about your Son.

[@jevaarora9546]

@@garageflower7154 hey I am sorry for your loss. Sending you lots of love

[@noeconci5130]

I loved La la land and Moonlight but this is by far 2016's BEST movie!To be a linguistic student and to hear Linguistic Relativism in the movies was surreal! This was an amazing video. Thank you so much!

[@doomed2063]

Noe Conci If La La Land isn't the most overrated film of 2016 ... Sheesh.

[@aadityabhattacharya]

DOOMED ! no it's not

[@chrisbrown9188]

What does that even mean?

[@FranciscoLopez-vl9ky]

Noe Conci 100% agree with you!

[@RosieSquall]

I hated La La Land. It was Hollywood masturbating at how great they are. Arrival was different, refreshing, with a wonderful plot and likable characters.

[@JimmyDThing]

I thought it was pretty clear that he left because she told him she chose to have their daughter even though she knew what would happen to her.

[@JimmyDThing]

... did you not see the movie? I am referring to the fact that she knew her daughter would become terminally ill very young and die very young .

[@nowayy5585]

JimmyDThing Ohhhh yes finally i know thanks:)

[@davidwbranham]

And told him that Hannah would die before she got sick...

[@tonibartling3844]

JimmyDThing. She asked him if he knew the future would he change anything = make different choices. All that matters is now living for now etc

[@dickiewongtk]

@@JimmyDThing Everybody dies, some sooner, some later, some in peace, some in pain. If die at a young age (by the way, what is 'young age'? 12? 20? 40?) from disease mean that person should not exist in the first place, that whatever short life they have is meaningless and worthless, then a lot of people should never been born. Well, some might argue that is actually a good thing. I am not one of them.

[@davidwbranham]

I picked up on the 'twist' when Renner said 'it's 1/12 of the whole'. Then I realized the ENTIRE movie they are telling you what the twist is. Circular writing (clock/time, the computer reads it clockwise), little conversations, confusion from Louise when talking to Hannah. 'Ask your father, he's the scientist' confirmed it. This was so well written, much like Prestige it puts the twist in your face but you're too into the film to notice.

[@smurfyday]

Wow. nice observation.

[@mattsell2361]

@@smurfyday I thought it was obvious they were getting together and having a kid where the twist blew my mind was that it had many layers and that Amy adams could basically see into the future and saw all the pain she was going to go through and choose to do it anyway and that’s when the film broke me

[@jaygee6738]

@@mattsell2361 me too. I spent a few minutes sitting in the theater just crying after it was over.

[@Bensworth_Drummington]

I love this about films. Films that beg you to understand the pieces that the film gives you. But you don't get it until that final moment, until it all comes together. And you are just left to think about it for hours.

[@spolch9482]

Can you explain it a bit further? I don't get what you mean.

[@TheSuperNats]

Louises decision to go forth and choose to love knowing the pain really resonated with me. As a new mom it’s terrifying to know love like this, knowing the focus of that love is so vulnerable. The idea that the love is worth that incredible pain is so beautiful. I cried so hard.

[@juliajulia1182]

Being a mother is one of the most beautiful things the human condition can give us. You are very lucky. Life in itself is pain, but worth living. Pain is our fuel, that's the only way our emotions can lead us. Wish you the best of luck as a mother, never be afraid to open yourself to life and vulnerability fully xx

[@apollion888]

after a failed marriage, I've spent 10 years running from my feelings. This film helped me heal in a way I never could have anticipated, unless I knew the heptapod language I guess.

[@JustinGone]

I watched this movie tonight and can't stop crying. What a beautiful movie.

[@ytruly4599]

Justin Gonzales me too. Every time. 😪💯💯

[@jaygee6738]

I cried too when I first saw it. Even though she knows how it is going to end, Louise goes through with it all. I loved this movie so damn much.

[@curious5691]

I’ve never watched this movie, but the soundtrack the nature of daylight, Max Richter. I fell asleep to it and had a strange dream. It was when the Killer Whale J35 nicknamed Tahlequah, a twenty year old member of an Orca pod that carried its dead baby for an unprecedented 17 days. This music was playing on a 10 hour loop. In my dream I was swimming next to J-35. I could feel her immense sorrow, and was weeping. Even the whales 🐋 God, is this life, nothing but sorrow, missing that which we can’t have? I awoke with a stream of tears running down my cheek, into my shirt. I said, “ at least it missed my ear, Mom,” in reference to something my mom did when we’re small, and upset. A series of questions, what happens when you cry” a) Tears go down your cheek. Q) where do the tears go? A) into your ear. Q) what happens when tears go into your ear? A) you can’t hear. Q) what can’t you hear me say? A) I love you. My mom died 23 years ago. Very strange dreM.

[@SaraH-jn5db]

A lot of people didnt like this movie and I dont get it. I think it's so creative and different from everything else coming out it deserved praise for it

[@rullmourn1142]

I hate all movies that mess with TIME, they are always so convoluted. When i first saw this i thought she really had a daughter in the past that died and would have another one in the future that would live and write the language book. I thought she named them both Hannah.

[@marcusprado9763]

@@rullmourn1142 +1. I do not remember a single example of a (drama) scifi movie that messes with time in a way that I could enjoy. The most annoying part in Arrival for me was that this "nonlinear time" thing was precisely the plot twist. I was very excited with the movie until this was revealed.

[@codescamander6993]

@@rullmourn1142 the reason why most movies mess with time is because at this point we really still dont understand how the time works.

[@eldiran2]

@@rullmourn1142 'Messing with time' is the whole point of the film--that it is NOT linear as we in the Western Cultures assume.

[@Elsa-dt4ve]

I loved it :D

[@Diana-mo6mg]

Did anyone else think that the heptapod was tapping on the glass to point at the bomb?

[@raniakriti4449]

Diana yup... Me🙋

[@raniakriti4449]

N it felt like... Eureka 💡

[@ThisIsCaspa]

Yeah. Or they were pushing them to evacuate.

[@raniakriti4449]

TheUnfriendlyGhost they did that it's quite clear

[@letmetellyasometin9508]

Diana it was too obvious not too

[@republikadugave420]

This movie broke me... I cried like a bitch... Absolute masterpiece... Never has a movie touched me so deep..

[@carolinashaw3859]

Love the movie, story and the cast! Amy Adams I'll give you the Academy Award. Loved your acting in this movie. I'm a cancer survivor and I wouldn't change anything but to love, be kind and humble more.

[@joemartinez2660]

I lost my wife to cancer 4 years ago … Life to me now has so much meaning. I replay in my mind all the good times we’ve had together , up to the last moment that she breathe her last breath , and went home . Life is now different , has more meaning . Each day is a blessed day to live .

[@kimboslice1356]

The music is also nonlinear and circular, such a masterpiece.

[@faaea13]

The nature of daylight is an amazing song

[@alondrag.m.5379]

It's absolutely breathtaking

[@MiracleWinchester]

I love how the structure and message of the film makes rewatching a delight

[@PanzarMetal]

In my opinion, a lot of times when anyone talks about the movie and uses the expression "non-linear" doesnt really know what non-linear or linear means. A metaphor of the time perception of both: Heptapods are on a tower where they can see what's every tree in a forest, while humans are on the ground and can see only the next tree only when they walk forward.

[@iishahadq]

This movie changed something in my heart... I can't help it but to shed tears over the choices Louise had to make knowingly of all the pain and tears to come.

[@Ti5GR]

The choice that Louise makes in deciding to love despite the probable outcome makes it all the more precious. Sometimes the doubt of a failure can block us from reaching out from the heart. Though time is on no man's side yet wounds beyond reach will heal because of it. Love's true intention was found in giving without an expecting a return with which it is as they say, knowledge will set us free.

[@druidriley3163]

Well it certainly gave HER good feelings. Not anyone else.

[@RumbleFish69]

One of the most underrated films of 2016. While people were going gaga for La La Land and Moonlight, this film, although it did well, did not garner anywhere near the attention it should have. Which is strange because it was released so late in the year that it should have done much better than it did. This was a wonderfully written film that was not only smart and clever, but it had an emotional draw as well. I am not much for sequels but I might enjoy a sequel to this film.

[@rullmourn1142]

2016 The Witch was a horror masterpiece. I hate all movies that mess with TIME, they are always so convoluted. When i first saw this i thought she really had a daughter in the past that died and would have another one in the future that would live and write the language book. I thought she named them both Hannah

[@ehmehmehm]

Actually, La La Land deserved it too. All the films mentioned have different genre and story. As for musical and love, La La Land is the best in the century. If you analyze it as you analyze Arrival, you'll see the art as it is filled with it. It made me fall in love with cinema and dreaming, it's very authentic and relatable. I love Arrival as it is a very mature Sci-Fi film although I'm not into that genre. I couldn't get enough with how the language of this film conveyed. It's deep as hell. 2016 was just a year for great films. But I haven't watched Moonlight though. I'm not into societal-representation films, there are too many. The Oscars is becoming too political these days.

[@eldiran2]

@@ehmehmehm The Oscars have ALWAYS been too political, giving it to people who have longed deserved it but for the wrong film (Elizabeth Taylor for 'Butterfield 8', Di Caprio for 'Relevant;, etc). The difference these days is that they are attempting too much to cater to the 'Wokeism', giving it to people simply because of their ethnicity (Zhao for 'Nomadland', 'Black Panther", etc) where there are clearly Better contenders. But, overall, it is nothing new.

[@arnold536]

ARRIVAL (2016) in itself is the sequel containing parts of the main film to be shown to the spectators while actually excelling in its literary and cinematic device to present us everything all at once.

[@RumbleFish69]

@@arnold536 No, a proper sequel would require me to fo the the theater and watch and entirely different film, with an entirely different story. A "Sequel" by its true definition, means second, and does not refer to the first film, no matter how smartly that first film was written.

[@DamnImSoBored123]

of all the oscar nominated movies ive seen so far, Arrival is The One for me. I love la la land so much, I think it was the best-made movie among them, but Arrival's themes are so much more meaningful for me as a person, and as a human being. I also love timey-wimey stuff so much

[@jbsinluenam]

"but Arrival's themes are so much more meaningful for me as a person, and as a human being" - You articulated it best- thank you.

[@Blinkforever524]

I just loved the background music a lot of the movie. It just gave me a sense of calmness, and its softness just gives us a sense of foreboding and a feeling that there is always hope in everything. It also made me feel that everything happens for a reason and that with a wider perspective there is always good in everything. Am I the only one??

[@joey6818]

Actually, the alien's form of language and memory is time travel. To learn their language, you must access time past, present and future in your own life as Dr. Banks did. The problem is when you create this time vocabulary in your mind this part of the timeline becomes the core and cannot be changed without dire consequences, therefore Dr. Bank's life must not be changed. Unfortunately, Dr. Donnelly does not have this ability to communicate through time so he does not know that their daughter dies. The core ring of the universe's timeline must not be changed only the protrusions change just like their language to create alternate outcomes, for example Dr. Bank's preventing World War 3 with the Chinese general. The circular smoke symbols are the time representation of the creation of the symbol's meaning. The aliens need a team of humans to save the universe's timeline core from other alien life forms that are destructive time travelers before their own race dies off in 3000 years.

[@mikebell4649]

J L interesting! So the basis of the movie is not deterministic time model bcos she can change time is she wants ! Serious implications for a parent who could see the future n cure cancer

[@pimeto]

You did a really good job with this analysis. I kinda discovered some things that i didn't see in the cinema! Thank yoU!

[@ytruly4599]

Lots of people asking for soundtrack info. The heart wrenching piece is by Mark Richter called On the Nature of Daylight and the rest:Arrival Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music by Johann Johannsson. I found it all on Spotify.

[@lorenzo8495]

That violin makes me cry every time!!

[@Pistachiox33]

This analysis just blew my mind, amazing! Really cleared any confusion from the film, and showed me the message of the film.

[@DonnaBrooks]

What an insightful analysis! I don't ever recall being moved to tears by an EXPLANATION of a movie! And I've watched a thousand reviews and analyses on YT in the last few years, including ones about Arrival. I've never even seen the movie! So now I want to go watch all your explanations to see what other profundities you have to share. Wow.

[@jodyalbright5179]

a comparison of Arrival and something like LaLaLand is like comparing apples and screwdrivers.

[@ShaudaySmith]

I loved this movie in theaters for the exact reasons noted in this video. The theories of learning a truly alien language, the struggles of communication and understanding, and the concept of choice in full knowledge that the consequence of that choice is pain. A lovely, lovely, story.

[@bjw4859]

This movie was amazing on so many levels watching it once does not do it justice, i'd recommend 4 times minium, twice just to get your head around it, once more with friends to get their take on it, & a 4th time after watching a video like this to see if you've missed anything really deep, bloody well made, you are a credit to your chanel.

[@originaozz]

This was a movie that when I first watch disturbed me. I was similar to Ian, angered and couldn't made sense of Louise's choice. But it keep me thinking about the film again and again, more than anything that came out in 2016. Now I think it has one of the most beautiful ending ever. It takes great courage to embrace life offerings knowing that it will be taken away, I hope one day I can learn to approach life like Louise.

[@bevrosity]

the snake/serpent/dragon eating its own tail represents the ethereal barrier around the earth, the van allen belt. which in some mythologies it is said to have been put there by cosmic entities.

[@amlaaaa479]

Awesome film. Somehow the fact that Louise has visions about Hannah rather than memories makes her death even sadder.

[@PompeySomerstown]

Denis V gives me hope that in a year full of sequels, the Bladerunner one may be something that is a lot more than just a cash-in..... He has not made a bad film yet.

[@apollion888]

And here comes Dune!

[@ericyister]

This movie was deep & it made you think...to imagine circular time instead of our traditional linear time, giving us hope in humanity.

[@known_film4081]

There should be more movies like this ... and I know there will ...

[@michaelbell75]

Tenet!

[@raahimhadi4905]

Proximity

[@austinsop7434]

I'm currently editing a review I did for Arrival. There's a couple of things I missed lol. The insight from the screenwriter was interesting and I didn't even think about the date it was released. Great analysis as always.

[@philipclayberg4928]

Perfect way to end the video, where Hannah looks at the camera and whispers, "I love you."

[@apollion888]

Don't make me cry again ...

[@RachelDAlba]

Props on the Vonnegut Tralfamadorians reference.

[@kenmaddog6784]

I couldn't wait to watch the movie but after watching it, I was a little confused because of all the hidden meanings. Your video really cleared things up. Now I want to watch it again. Thanks

[@SteliosE92]

i want to kiss the guy that analyses the films and makes these videos. truly amazing

[@visualdog]

The "guy" is a woman!

[@divydubey17]

I think it's a team. The chick only narrates the videos.

[@visualdog]

Yes, a team of two women. I read about them.

[@bakoyma]

My favourite movie, for precisely the reasons stated in this video. Thank you for posting this

[@BrokeredHeart]

I don't know why I put off watching this movie until now, but I'm kind of glad that I did, because the message was all the more impactful in this bizarre year we're having. Couple of things that weren't mentioned in this video was the significance of when Louise calls language "the cornerstone of civilization," to which Ian argues that it's actually science. One is calculated, observable, rational, and measured, while the other is interpretive, emotional, and fluid. In this film they had to use both approaches to fully grasp the non-linear language of the heptapods in order to make contact and understand one another. I found that to be such a brilliant way of defining the complexity of our humanity and how we need both the rational and the emotional to truly communicate with one another. It's why Ian and Louise are so compatible and also at odds with one another. When Hannah asks her mom what the term is wherein two parties can reach an agreement where both are happy, Louise gets frustrated when she can't convey the term Hannah's looking for, and ends up brushing her daughter off telling her, "If you want science, go ask your father." But then the answer comes to her through the cyclical timing, when the topic of a "non zero sum game" is mentioned in conversation around the meeting table in her past, because she's using that ability to unite the rational and emotional again in her mind. It's a brilliant film that had me sobbing by the end of it, because it's less of a story about an alien encounter, and more of a story about coming to grips with the human condition. If we could effectively communicate with ourselves and with others, what kind of power and knowledge could we all be capable of? Louise's curiosity and willingness to learn and be changed by what she knows grants her unfathomable abilities to transcend time, and in doing so, averts the worst armed disaster of the modern human world. The heptapods ultimately needed humanity to work collectively, and it was their contact and willingness to impart their knowledge ("weapon") that enabled Louise to kickstart a global reunification process, thereby ensuring that in the future, humanity could save the heptapods in kind. A sort of higher purpose that not only saved us from ourselves, but helped another species, too. EDIT: And I didn't even get into the use of music in this movie! UGH! The composition is called On The Nature of Daylight by Max Richter, but there's another version of this song that combines the instrumental composition with Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth. I won't get into it too much here, but the version with her sung lyrics over it contribute so much to the emotional power of this film, and I think it was probably for the best that they didn't add the lyrics to the film because it would be too much to handle. Go look it up for yourselves if you're interested. It's a beautiful, heartbreaking piece of music.

[@mariooy6120]

This is one of the best explanation of movie ever. and the narration and the voice of her explaining and the way she explains everything is just great. i didn't watch the movie but this video made me appreciated and want to watch it.

[@LisaBMusic]

Wow, so much of this movie went over my head the first time I saw it. Amazing film. Thanks for making this. Cheers!

[@droma-ev9kh]

"Non-Zero Sum Game" That part is when I realized that she's seeing from the future. Like bruh I literally screamed upon that realization 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😝😝😝😝

[@craigdamage]

When I saw the film I had thought that the significance of the "3000 years return" wasn't relative to the length of the alien's life span but that they were traveling in excess of light speed. It would be a much shorter period of time to them but three thousand years to earth.

[@mariom7905]

Seriously this channel from the best channels ever on KZbin.

[@duantorruellas716]

This film is a masterpiece of non linear thinking and touches on very deep concepts like freewill and morality , as well as advanced linguistics and the human condition. And you have done such an awesome job explaining these concepts I will leave it there . But this film is a very smart kid dressed in an alien costume , and I think your explanation of this film has shown its brilliant depths thus making it very underrated. When I saw this film I saw the circular themes in time and the design of the language but you pointed out so much more , and said it so well. The occult symbology mentioned here is spot on as well , and was prominent in this films theme. So many thx. ⚡

[@alexs2551]

One question I had after watching the movie: How come Jeremy Renner who is learning the heptapod language (and reads her wife's book as well) can't also see into his future and realize the fate of his daughter? (A Decision he is shown to be upset with). It's implied that Amy Adams ability to see time as non-linear and can therefore see events in the future is given via her understanding of the language so why does that not apply to Jeremy Renner? Thanks

[@InsideJacobsMind]

He simply doesn't have the grasp on the language that she does. I think the movie implies that the rest of humanity begins to learn the language years, maybe decades later.

[@alexs2551]

Fair enough for the rest of the world but he is there with her every step of the way. In fact shown repeatedly mapping out and translating the language alongside her as the other scientist. Then his wife writes a book that translates the entire language and he is still is blindsided about the news for his daughter implying that he has no ability to see into the future of time seems a bit odd.

[@kelbysappington]

Amy Adams' character is a linguist, and can therefore more easily grasp the Heptopods' language. In order to experience the full effects of the language (the ability to perceive time as non-linear), you have to FULLY understand the language. Think of it like learning a new language yourself. When you're first learning the language, you have to translate it in your mind back to your primary language. But when you become truly fluent in the new language, you no longer have to translate it. You can think in the new language, skip the step of translation, and move directly to communication. Adams' character has reached that level of fluency, and therefore gained the ability to see time non-linearly. But Renner's character still has to translate it back to English in order to understand what is being communicated. So while he can translate the language, he's not truly fluent, and therefore doesn't receive the full effects.

[@TheNemesis656]

+Kelby Sappington Nice explanation! Being bilingual, I do translate the words back and forth to get a better understanding. English is still quite confusing though, with the idioms an everything.

[@maccorf]

I think it's also worth noting that in the original short story (which is much more technical than the movie but less emotional, due to the power of cinema), Jeremy Renner's character does understand the language at a similar time as Amy Adam's character, and they never separate. In fact, some of my favorite parts of the story are when they both know what they are going to say to each other but still go through with saying it anyway, which is where the aspect of "free will" is most discussed. I can see why the movie changed things, and each has their merits.

[@helenburdis1927]

I will have to see this movie again. I keep forgetting that I am seeing Jeremy Renner in movies and now I’m so enjoying them more and I spin out when I consider his immense talent and that we all came so close to losing him. Thank you God for keeping him here for his cherished daughter.🎉😊❤❤❤

[@sculnan]

Amazing summary of an amazing movie...thank you

[@propman3523]

Some of the wisest words I ever heard I think came from the PBS 2-time series therapist, John Bradshaw, "You're the only person you will never have to say good-bye to." I have carried these words with me throughout my life since and I am now 74.

[@monkeyzero2]

Love your channel!! Can you do Donnie Darko next please??? would love to see a well thought out explanation of that movie.

[@apollion888]

The Director's Cut explains much more than the theatrical release, some people think too much

[@ayushnema6189]

It was clearly told why he left her. She embraced the future even though she knew what their daughter will go through because she thought it's not about just knowing the future but the feel of it. Whereas Ian, when realized she knew what was gonna happen, confronted her about having their child suffer when she could easily have avoided it.

[@seunoyebode]

This is a beautiful Movie. And this the best review on KZbin

[@athee569]

Blown away with this analysis !

[@birdiewolf3497]

I wonder if the key to understanding the language truly (which gives you the ability to process things non linearly) comes with the knowledge that you can't and wouldn't change things. So anybody trying to learn the language with the intent of changing what they would see in the future will never be able to become fluent. Vs being like Dr. Banks and understanding it's just a part of life. And while Abbot's sacrifice was noble, I doubt someone who grew up in a language like that would even have the concept of changing the future. To them it wouldn't make any sense. So Ian saying she made the wrong choice tells us he doesn't fully grasp the language and how Louise perceives things.

[@rogertheartfuldodger]

Best explanation given for Arrival yet. I think the difference is the fact the screenwriter had input to the explanation.

[@souravbhattacharya3875]

this is the best explanation i hve heard so far...

[@bluedancelilly]

The thing she told her Ian (her future husband and dad of Hannah) is that Hannah will die. She doesn't tell him this until much later. That's what she meant when she told Hannah that he left her because she told him something he wasn't yet ready to hear about the future - and he thought she made the wrong decision - meaning the decision to have a baby when she knew the baby would die. She was able to see her life in nonlinear ways - the future as if it was memories. When she asked Ian "If you know your life from start to finish, would you change anything", she was referring to already knowing about the death of their daughter and was contemplating if she should go through with having a baby in the future.

[@sns8420]

The Heptapod's language also looks like the Zen enso

[@mr.moviemafia]

“I haven’t shared this with anybody yet...” AD BREAK

[@alphonso6942]

Wow, this video is on par. The ideas said in this video is so heart warming.

[@kingsleylaurent562]

This was so beautifully explained. Thank you

[@eggizgud]

2020 nope we haven't learnt to communicate and not act on paranoia.

[@apollion888]

Nor will we, there is a profit to be made by making and keeping people paranoid. The end of America will be caused by what once made it great.

[@kahkah1986]

I felt that the world learning to communicate with each other, and different countries and cultures bringing different things to the table with their different ways of thinking, was the really interesting part, more interesting than the individual developing prophecy type angle they focused on. The way the Russian team teaches the aliens to play games which is high risk, high gain, whilst the West/ American characters are much more linear and try to teach them without shortcuts. You can see the differences in the recent vaccination struggles as well.

[@ericpmoss]

It has gotten worse.

[@bruce5777]

One of the best films I've ever seen

[@soeraa93]

I thought this movie was absolutely fantastic. Definitely a must see.

[@muttleygutierrez108]

It needs to be understood that the General also knew the new language as he wants Amy's character to intercede and remind him so he won't go to war. Louise is able to go to that moment in time and see his number and recite the last words on the General's wife. That is why he tells her he wanted to meet her. He needed someone to intercede in that moment. If you take that part, that understanding out, it makes the general look rather forward, giving Louise his phone number...

[@jasrajzlimbu8463]

The legs of the heptapods look like 11:11

[@kimsk4962]

This movie did not get the attention it deserved. Fantastic story, writing, music, cinematography... It's one of my favourites.

[@derlaurenz]

Really deep analysis you did there. TERRIFIC JOB!

[@jjs1300000]

I thought it was a great movie. It's sad though that Louise will lose Hanna and Ian.

[@MomoDaGr8]

Jessie Swaby - Hannah lol with an h. That's the point 🙂

[@casualagent7250]

Ian might come back

[@lgnarg]

love your channel

[@Vejur9000]

This will go down as one of the best sci fi movies, ahead of its time.

[@statewidefilms]

I think it's a very deep story.

[@uiscepreston]

The problem with Arrival - and this is coming from a linguist - is that her scientific methods for discerning the nuances of scripts was entirely off. When you encounter a completely foreign form of communication that has no known relation to an already deciphered similar mode of communication, you have to establish the idea of whole object bias. You show the aliens a baseball. You say "ball". Hide the ball. Show the aliens a bowling ball. You say "ball". Hide it and show them a basketball. Say "ball". If these aliens have any sort of intelligence, i.e., logical processes, they will quickly understand what the linguistic sign "ball" signifies. It is not an attribute of the objects like smooth, stitching, finger holes or color but the name of a class of items with a threshold of similarity. If they are shown enough items, they will begin to discern the differences and similarities and then categorize objects by hypernyms and hyponyms. But no, she just jumps right into "You, Tarzan. Me, Jane"-type crap. Well, no wonder their extra-terrestrial motives were so easily misunderstood.

[@anujpramanik1819]

Wow! Never thought of it that way, cool analysis 👍

[@mikebell4649]

It does seem to jump away from intelligence knowing we’re here n never learning our language even tho they can see the future??? Helloooo

[@moredaily1684]

Thank goodness for suspension of disbelief or there wouldn't be a such thing as fantasy, imagination, fiction, play, or--fun. In fact, without the ability to turn language into reporting or simulated realities, REAL OR NOT, language itself becomes useless, failing to conjure images, unsuccessful in establishing vicarious emotions where conveying the urgency of, the enemy is over that hill and killing everyone they meet, and they're coming this way! If that were greeted with healthy skepticism and the need to analyze the strategic probabilities that such an army exist and such a battle technique might triumph, over the hill comes the barbarians and away go the linguists. Bravo! Lighten up. It borders on trolling the way some people suck the life out of everything, the way they drag their stuffy, stick up the arse attitudes into a party and suggest that the music is too loud and it serves no purpose how people rhythmically grind their midsection against one another. Really? It's called, humanity. Suspension of disbelief. Think about it. No--don't think about it. That's the point.

[@rjlt4841]

So often missed by many is that the heptapods use the word weapon because it came from something Louise had used earlier in life that Ian quoted in the movie. “Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”

[@GopherBaroque61]

That the Best Directing Oscar went to Hollywood Hand-Job (aka La La Land) instead of Arrival shows exactly why winning an Oscar has lost its worth.

[@sreoshibhaumik5891]

OMG... Your analysis made me cry

[@thetake]

Haha thanks?

[@Stuo5353]

I think that this is one of the greatest movies ever….. So many people struggled with what the movie was about, I loved it because it was a thinking movie, it challenged you to understand the concept.

[@lddevo88]

Really excellent analysis video!!

[@gregnicholls4214]

Fantastic! Thank you...

[@joyjeetpaul2218]

Great message..... We still have the time !

[@mikeronquillo1451]

You guys have awesome and mind blowing intetpretations! Good job

[@STohme]

Very interesting content analysis of a very beautiful movie. Many thanks.

[@ypluto_7933]

any compareable movies out there? i want to see this movie again but i already saw it for the fourth time today.

[@dara2m4]

best vid about the "Arrival" movie!

[@tmar65]

So, my power went out when Louise enters the spaceship on her own!!!😞 This Movie was fantastic, intelligent and brilliant!!!! So thought provoking and deep!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@zirkhanjohary1347]

Literally just finished watching this movie then i browse youtube watching a random video then this one popped up on my suggestions. Thought it was a few weeks old but when i looked at the date it's published just YESTERDAY.

[@moremileyplease4387]

I never understood the idea that Louise had any choice but to have Anna. Knowing the future, she already loved Anna.

[@marysueeasteregg]

Dune, directed by Villaneuve, will also deal with issues of free will and personal choice, with a central character who remembers the future. I don't know if he has any plans to film Dune Messiah, the second book in Frank Herbert's series, but the emotional core of that novel has an additional parallel to Arrival.

[@HSTaimur]

Nicely Explained... Thank you...

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Brilliant. I'm so glad I discovered this channel.

[@maitri5265]

I don't know, which choice I would choose if I could know the future. If I know that telling my spouse about my "gift" and my own choice of having our child despite knowing her death date - causing him to leave the family, should I tell him. Sure, she decides love and embraces love even though it won't last, but what if he would not know and stay and love Hannah til her death bed. Or at least, tell him from the beginning for both making a decision together. Such an exceptional video girls! I have watched many explanation of the movie (in which mostly just a summary but not much explanation) and nobody quite grasp it like you do. Kudos!

[@adibudica]

Good stuff. The analysis helped me ARRIVE at the meaning/ destination I was looking for. Oh wait...!

[@salmenzbroder452]

Superb video. Thank you!

[@oadaoada]

this channel is my new favorite one!

[@ktksoccerstar5]

the soundtrack was so fitting

[@BhorsleyAD33]

Great video explanation. Can you please name the music in this video at 9:53 to the end? It is so nice I would like to hear the whole piece.

[@ytruly4599]

Brent Horsley saw yr msg re my enthusiastic misunderstanding of yr request. I meant well. ➰➿

[@BhorsleyAD33]

No worries, I misunderstood as well in thinking you were the author of the video. I'm just trying to get a reply about what music they used in the background. Cheers

[@sshk1653]

the nature of daylight

[@ytruly4599]

This review is outstanding, as are your reviews of Moonlight, and MbtS - I'm subscribed. Lovely touch mixing in Richter's On the Nature of Daylight - one of the most moving pieces of music I've ever heard! Much more fully expressed in Arrival than in Theory of Everything, which he wrote it for.

[@rayyanalikhan007]

Great analysis as always but Does anyone think how good the music of this movie is. I mean, I can listen to the soundtrack "The nature of the daylight" for hours. It boosts my creative thinking.

[@bibingraj9743]

Beautiful explanation!