Arrival A- (spoils)
Posted by
Inigo (aka Inigo)
Dec 4 '16, 08:44
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It was a fantastic, slow mystery (up until the end). Like Jack said, it deserves 8 to 10 Oscar nominations. The way they let the story unravel was impressive. Amy Adams was probably better in this than Jodie Foster was in Contact.
Now, to the puzzling part. Although the ending made so much emotional sense, it made very little sense logically. It's akin to the plotholes and logical mishaps About Time had with its time travel. If learning the alien language was the reason she started seeing the future, and her child's death, then why did we, as the audience, see the death at the beginning of the film? Louise wouldn't have had those abilities yet.
The movie was clearly trying to make us think they were flashbacks at that point since they showed Louise after every instance, most of the time looking distraught. If the explanation is just that the filmmakers were intentionally fooling us, that makes it a far lesser movie for me.
All that aside, there's still more logic holes. If the aliens don't experience time as we do, and most likely knew what the encounters with Louise and the humans were going to be like, why did they need to learn our language? Wouldn't they have already known it? And shouldn't they have known that saying "weapon" like that would almost cause global war? Maybe use a different word. The only way out of that is to say that the movie is fatalistic, but then that kills the whole idea of Louise's choice to have her child. If it's deterministic, then the aliens have choices, too.
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