I was expecting a generic alien invasion movie, and I was pleasantly surprised
The aliens reminded me of the Tralfamadorians from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.
That was a mouthful. Is it worth a watch?
It’s a book. Then again I don’t watch much tv, so who knows, it may have been adapted by now. The book is worth reading though, it’s very good.
There’s a film of it, but I’ve only ever read the book. It is a really good book by a WWII veteran who really gets a lot of points about the war and what happened across.
Ah okay! I’ll add it to my ever growing list haha.
I too have an ever growing list. if you’ve never read Vonnegut before, he is really worth moving up the list.
Genuinely one of the best movies of all time IMO
Sapir-Whorf always fascinated me when I first read about it in philosophy class
I read this stuff casually and I was generally familiar with the theories in both Arrival and Interstellar, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of either when I watched the movies. I completely missed what they were pointing at in Interstellar and thought they butchered the idea that Amy Adams was caught in her own frame of how she understood her experience of time.
I am sure that’s my problem, but I truly wonder how anyone was supposed to appreciate the movies without internalizing the critical theories
Interstellar was terrible.
Very happy to see my notion shared on this platform.
“But the science”
Miss me with that bullshit, you don’t get to tote how “scientifically accurate” something is in the first half (it wasn’t) and then get time travel/self recurrence in the second half.
It was just a bad movie with high production value, if I want that I’ll watch moonfall.
Yeah its one of my favorite movies
Definitely a top 20 in my book, one of my wife’s top 5. I also love the book, it’s very short story, you can probably read it in the time it’d take to watch the movie (I’m a slow reader and did it in a few hours), it doesn’t add too much, but it’s a bit of interesting mathematical philosophy which I found quite endearing.
Watched it last week for the first time. Really enjoyed it
I watched it for the first time last year without knowing anything about it and, as someone who loves to nerd out about anything linguistics related (am translator, for context), I cannot describe how gleeful I was that such subjects had center focus in a big blockbuster like that. Obviously the other aspects of the movie were amazing as well and the story got me very emotional by the end, but I will never shut up about how interesting and important that translation/communication aspect of the movie was.
the short story/novel its derived from is also pretty good
Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life won a Nebula for best novella and a Theodore Sturgeon award, and was nominated for a Hugo for best novella.
Yeah, it’s pretty good.
Pretty good? It destroyed me
Yup. I couldn’t shake the feeling of sorrow after watching this movie. Like it just clung to me…
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Now you have to watch it again. Seriously
I just did it.
This movie absolutely destroyed me emotionally for like a week. I was wholly unprepared for what this movie was really about. I was expecting an alien invasion movie and got a brickload of emotions dumped on my heart.
Same. Saw it a few months before my first child was born and it opened up something in me that I didn’t know was there. I’ve never watched a movie that made me weep until this one. Full on sobbing. Watched it again a week later, wasn’t a fluke - sobbed again.
One of favorite movies of all time. I watch it at least once a year.
What are you talking about, it only came out last year … Uh, right?
Well according to the movie what you’re saying can make perfect sense.
Sure feels like it.
Alien Linguistics. Love this movie
I watched it because Lingthusiasm has a podcast episode about it and loved it too!
I don’t remember much about the movie, but isn’t it one of the movies where time gets wacky?
Almost
Spoiler
Memories are what get wacky. The main character (as well as the aliens who “arrive”) can remember the future as well as the past due to learning the alien language. It’s based on the possibly-not-linguistically-sound Sapir-Wharf hypothesis that says the language you speak influences the way you think. The aliens use a circular rather than linear writing system so they think of time in a non-linear way
For anyone wondering, the music that just destroys you in the movie is by the amazing Max Richter. The song is On The Nature of Daylight.
PS: He recently released a piano arrangement of the song.
This song is everywhere if you look. I heard it in Shutter Island first.
“When I first started drinking warm water for my prostate…”
Fuck YouTube so much…
Either way… His short stories are the bees knees…
