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Language, what it can do, and the power that it holds is the main theme in the movie. However, it fails to hold any other language other than the alien one to any respect. Many of the plotpoints are painstakingly twisted to fit their story. Like how there is not a single Mandarin speaker on an American military base that is communicating internationally other than the main character. Major bits of information are randomly dropped, never to be visited again. So much of it is very "trop-ey", the nice white woman who can do anything through compassion, and the with blatant sinophobic tropes peppered throughout. Worst of the latter was diminishing the culturally significant mahjjong game into a weapon, completely coping out of any Mandarin translations, even though the language plays a major part of two of the movies biggest turning points, and (most cringe-worthy of all) having the war-hungry (of course they made him war-hungry) Chinese military general refer to a mysterious and unnamed "superior". This is bad enough for any movie, but worse when it's one about valuing language and communication. The lack of self-awareness becomes downright laughable when a Colonel of the American Military compares the aliens (not once, but twice) to Western colonizers of the past. Even going as far as to use the term "more advanced race".
What you saw in the trailer about the aliens "getting the different countries to work together" never actually happens. All that happens is that one person, the main character, learns the language, and writes a book to teach others. Also, the aliens casually drop that they'll need the humans' help in 3 millennia, but that is never revisited again.

The cast is solid, and the plot twist is creative and had me on the edge of my seat, but everything else about this movie was at best disappointing, and at worst, downright cringe-y.

A linguist is tasked with solving an interstellar puzzle. We are drawn to care for her immediately, because we see scenes of her daughter being born, living, and dying too soon as the mom (Amy Adams) narrates the introduction to the film – and then we see her alone, with no sign even of the child’s father – and then the aliens arrive, 12 huge ships scattered around the world, hovering just off the ground.

The story unfolds gently but relentlessly, with this viewer fully engaged. The linguist is recruited to try to communicate with the aliens, figure out what they’re saying and why they’re here – before people’s overwhelming anxiety and fear of the unknown bubbles over into violence.

This story of trying to unravel a puzzle and understand the alien has rarely been told so compellingly, with such a grand payoff. I think of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, of E.T. The Extraterrestrial, of Contact, and, well, that’s the entire list that Arrival joins. Other films have gone this way, but almost none so well.

Arrival is based on a novella called “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang. Obviously if you read that first you’ll lose some of the wonder when – well, you’ll lose some of the wonder. In this case I'm glad I saw the film first, but the story is brilliant in both forms.

This is not just my favorite movie of 2016, it belongs in the category of My All-Time Favorite Movies.

While it was a good movie, it makes you think about how we perceive them and how an alien civilization would perceive us, are we warlike or peaceful, and are they here to wipe us out or help us . . . makes the premise of the movie very thought-provoking.
What I seriously disliked about the movie is that the entire movie seemed to be shot through some sort of low-light, blue-haze filter. It seemed out of focus and blurry and was very annoying.
I even stopped the movie ten minutes in and went to YouTube to see if it was my computer, but finally realized that the movie was deliberately shot in this way, and it really, really distracted from the experience of watching a good movie.

In order to fully and deeply appreciate a work of art, philosophy, spirituality, I believe one must approach it without expectation so that there can be any possibility of letting it in, and which, if one does, one can experience the deliciously surprising gift of something quite unexpected, a revelation of sweetness that one can swim in and be infused by, so rich with meaning and possibilities; Mystic in nature...profound. When I saw the ads for this film, I thought "Oh, another us versus them story or they invade we fight them off to save the day"...Yawn. However, I read the synopsis and thought "This might be different, after all I cannot imagine Amy Adams acting like Sigourney Weaver in Alien". I am really glad I saw it. Thank you to the deep thinkers who made this; I was very moved. Non Linearity...coool.

liked the movie.. nuf said, service was prompt but the picture seems about 10 or 20% dull.
i checked and all dvd movies are 720p, as was this file under properties, or vlc: tools, codec, video resolution: 720p
the only guess i have is the original file copied from was dull. considering return: got youtube review to verify before hitting enter here, and checking other pitch example files, but see: (none are print screens, but snaps from files)
pic1 is youtube (very clear), pic2 is same pic in this dvd, pic3 easy shows bad view.

proves this dvd is from a bad copy. legitimate check.

Movie concept is interesting, but something about it didn't resonate with me. I think it boils down to that I didn't connect with the storyline. I don't want to give anything away in this review so I can't expand too much on the backstory. I have relatives that love this movie and think it's profound and can watch it over and over again. The acting is strong and the movie is put together well as you would expect from a good Hollywood film. Unfortunately for me it didn't land as one of my most enjoyable films. I still recommend you see it and judge for yourself - i think it might be one of those "love it or hate it" type of films for a lot of people.

Amy Adams give a truly stellar performance, as do supporting cast Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, in this thought-provoking and non-traditional story. Some who will give this film a bad review may be looking for a more formulaic sci-fi genre piece (if the absence of jumpscares will elicit a comment of "That sucked," for example), or a more complete resolution within the plot. But for those who enjoy pondering a nagging question or two after watching a movie, this will scratch that itch. The emotional pitch for one-world government is transparent but the story doesn't bend to make the point, but rather allows the unfolding of events to make a case. But the real delight for armchair producers is going to be watching how the concept of time is played with in a way that allows viewers to really step through into the mind of the main character and gain some better understanding of what's really going on on the story.

Terrific! A+ Film
This is Amy Adams' film..and she is one of the best actresses working in the American film industry...Just check her body of work to date. Forrest Whitaker and Jeremy Renner complete the star power. But its the script that is the serious 'Star'...The premise is unique..the characters are extremely well developed..the cinematography and direction are first class all the way..Will make you think for days on end about its message..In light of the fine mess we've gotten ourselves into. Worth every penny of $3.99 for the Streamed SD version on Amazon.

I have to say straight off that I was sold on this film before I ever saw it because it starred Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. You can't go wrong with a duo like that. Now about the film. It's one of those type that after you see it you immediately want to see it again to see if you hypothesis of the first viewing was correct. If your like me more than likely it wasn't. I finally came to the conclusion that trying to explain this movie to others is futile because most I talk to that have seen it have different opinion. If it sounds like I'm trying to confuse you, I'm really not. What I am saying is that different people will have different opinions on whats involved here. Putting it plain and simple: this is a thinking persons movie. A great movie with a great cast and, I might add, a great story line.

Apparently this conclusion wasn't shared by others, so I felt the need to actually discuss these ideas rather than adding my voice to millions of others saying the same.

Arrival is not only the best SciFi movie of All Time, it may very well be one of the best Movies of All Time. This isn't hyperbole. The writing, acting, story, cinematography, and graphics are as good as it gets in movies these days. Yes, there is absolutely way too many opening logos. The "Newsposition" (exposition delivered by perfectly timed or layered news programs) was excessive. But this did not bring the plot to a halt or make it feel rushed. The pacing was flawless. The acting by all leads, primary supporting actors, and even the barely named background characters was extremely well done.

As for the story, I will do everything I can to avoid spoilers, because people deserve to experience this story themselves. What I loved: very natural and logical flow of events and reactions from the leads as they are introduced to the "Arrivals". Exceptional writing when it came to the military (both U.S. and most other countries). This wasn't a formulaic "Scientists GOOD, Military BAD" story. The military leaders were actually intelligent, spent time thinking thing through, and accepted logic! Name another SciFi movie where that happens. There are VERY few!

Most important of all - the Twist. It was jaw-dropping. It explained so much that was left uncertain, unclear, and downright mislead earlier in the film. The characters' reactions to it were completely rational. The portrayal of the Twist to the audience was flawless. It didn't drag. It didn't leave you wondering "Wait... What?!" It was dropped on us, explained, examples were given, and we were told flat-out what was going on. M. Night should watch this video to help him get back to his Sixth Sense chops.

Anyone who says this is bad SciFi isn't actually interested in SciFi. They're interested in Space Fantasy. Where everything is flashy, sexy, and nothing is explained because Look - A Distraction!! In the true sense of the intention behind Science Fiction, this movie stands orders of magnitude beyond so many others in recent years, or frankly across all movie history. If you like SciFi or love SciFi - Watch This Movie. I rented it when it first became available, because I was uncertain about it. Immediately after my first viewing, I bought it. That's how amazingly good this movie is.

At first, I thought I was just watching a re-hashed combo of "Indepedence Day" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"...but this movie is different and stands on it's own.

I was completely entertained throughout the movie. I didn't understand every detail while was I was watching it...but, the more I thought about it afterward, all the pieces came together.

Most people that gave this a low rating, apparently didn't understand the story...and probably didn't get their fix of guns, explosions and action. This is a classic case of a movie not needing any of that to shine.

The story may not be perfect, but it's very good and the atmosphere is fantastic.

There are so many reviews here, no one is ever going to read mine, yet I feel compelled to write it anyway. First off, I am NOT a sci-fi fan, but after talking to friends who are, I am inclined to think that is part of the reason I liked this movie. While they thought it was "slow" because they have encountered all kinds of aliens and time warps and weirdnesses in their past viewing and reading, I found the pace just right to process the astonishment of what was unfolding. The characters were me/us/now -- if this was happening in our world, this is how we would be feeling and reacting. We share Louise's (Amy Adams) wide-eyed wonder and appreciate Ian's (Jeremy Renner) amazed, sardonic "Yeah, that just happened." The viewer may feel a bit of uneasy confusion about the seemingly random switching of scenes -- flashbacks? visions? planted memories? -- but all is explained by the end, very simply and without rapid dialogs or long, involved explanations. You might just think, as I did, "Oh, of course. Brilliant."

This movie haunts me. Sometime you watch a movie that makes you feel strong emotions like happiness or anger but not this one. This movie is a drama with an interesting twist at the end. I'll admit it kept me confused, which is what it was meant to do, until towards the end. It moved slow and I kept feeling like I was missing something, just like the main character. Then, when it all came together, I just "got" it, the same way the character did. We think we regard the main character from the outside but in reality we are experiencing the movie through her perceptions. If we remain open, not seeking to interpret the movie, we begin to understand and feel what she feels. This isn't as much about the aliens arriving as it is about a choice. That choice is what haunts me. It makes me question what would I have done with this knowledge? How would I choose? I recommend this movie but when it comes to the message you need to be patient and wait for it.

This is a divisive film. You will love it or hate it, but you will have an opinion. Why are there such strong feelings? I think it results from the way the film was marketed. Critics came out raving about a new Sci-Fi film and called it wildly unpredictable. The public's interest was piqued. After all, it stars Jeremy Renner so it must be a Sci-Fi action movie, right? Maybe it's like a good Independence Day. Wrong! There is only one explosion in this film and I don't think there was a single gun fired. Whoa! What a letdown, right? No.

This is not a Sci-Fi action film. This is Sci-Fi in the same vein as Contact, Solaris, and 2001. Actually, it is very similar to 2001 in many ways and themes. If you thought 2001 was boring, you will hate this film. This is not a film about aliens. This is a film about how we react to adversity and uncertainty. You may have heard that this is a film about time travel. It's not. No one "travels" through time. This film is about supposing that time is relative (which we know it is) and perhaps even malleable if you understand it well enough. The key to understanding time in this film is language. One aspect I think the film got wrong is contrasting science and language. Science is a language. Science is a way to explain the phenomena around you in formulas that can be shared and duplicated with others i.e., a language. They are not adversarial, but the same.

One thing that surprised me greatly was the portrayal of the military. I think this is probably the truest representation of how military personnel would react. These aren't mindless soldiers. They are thinking human beings with human emotions thrust into a situation of unbelievable significance. Some handle it with fear and trepidation while others approach it with care and concern. If we are ever visited by an alien race, the event will transcend the military. It will transcend the government and even nations. The government does not own or have a right to police our access to foreign visitors. This film portrays very well the moral dilemmas between duty and human emotion.

Are there some problems with the film? Undoubtedly it could have added more steps of suspense along the way--just a few morsels to keep the suspense building even more. I think that would have eliminated some of the "boring" complaints. I also think Jeremy Renner did not belong in the film. He is an excellent actor and it's not like he doesn't act his role well, it's just that he brings too much "Jeremy Renner" baggage to the role for me to accept him completely. Amy Adams was perfect for this role, however.

You absolutely should watch this film if you like thinking about it afterwards. Nothing is spoon-fed to you in this film and you will NOT receive all the answers. Much is left open to your interpretation. It will leave you guessing to the very end. What would you do in the same situation?

If you thought 2001 was a masterpiece (it was) then you will love this film in much the same way. If you thought Independence Day was a masterpiece, don't waste your time watching this.

**Blu-ray note** Having purchase the Blu-ray, I can now speak to it separately from the film. The picture is stunning and one of the best films I have seen. The colors are slightly muted, but I'm sure it's intentional. I just don't remember it being overly dark in the theater.

There are over 80 minutes of extras, although I am slightly apprehensive about watching them. They basically explain the whole point of the film which I feel is better left to your own interpretation. Those who don't like the film won't ever get a chance to see what it was about since they surely won't buy this, but the answers are there if you want them.

This movie was SOOOO bad! If good means making your eyes dry out for what seems like infinity years, then it’s good. So first, this big pebble shaped like a beauty blender appears out of nowhere and for some reason, they decide to GO TO IT. And then,these big fat angry squids that looked like blobs of black Jell-O with legs and feet popped out of it and decided to terrorize the Earth for NO APPARENT REASON AT ALL. And it turns out, they were actually giving someone a present which makes absolutely no sense at all. And then there was a really lazy physicist that would absolutely REFUSE to do any ACTUAL physics. And then this lady randomly saw and to the future and decided to call her boss and tell him something in Mandarin for some reason so she was about to get shot for having a cell phone, which makes NO SENSE. And then, it turned out that the mutant squids with giant chicken feet talked in a circle language,which is completely and utterly WEIRD. And then, this lady saw into the future and saw that she had a baby with a rare disease, and her husband randomly said:”Let’s make a baby.” Which is probably the weirdest and most random sentence I’ve heard in my entire lifetime, and then the started kissing, right then, right there. SPOILER ALERT: You would probably rather watch paint dry than watch this movie. Also, don’t blame me because you can never get the two hours of your life back that you wasted watching this movie.
CONCLUSION: So, when you watch a movie like this, you probabably expect you to be scared and for your adrenaline to get pumping and for it to be actually WORTH YOUR TIME to watch, and for there to be a really boring part at the end. But no, this movie was ALL boring. The only reason I didn’t fall asleep watching this movie is because I wasn’t really paying attention. Don’t be fooled by the awesome cover and awesome title, this movie is NOT exiting at any degree. If you don’t believe me, watch the movie. THEN you will. (P.S. The only reason that I gave this movie a star is because the cover and the title. The music is SUPER boring.)

This was a stupid movie from start to finish. Enlightened reviewers may say "you just don't get it"... To that I say that I "got it" perfectly, it's just that "it" is a rediculous, stupid, boring waste of time. It is a movie that tries to twist your mind- reminds me of interstellar, which I actually didn't "get" at all, but at least stuff happened in that one. To make it worse the video was horrible... We exited the movie and tried other streams just to make sure there was nothing wrong with our tv/streaming. There was not. The video was fuzzy throughout, apparently intentionally, and only made worse by the entire thing being gloomy and dark. I am angry that I gave part of my life to this- stay away.

Intelligent and sensitive--a thinking person's sci-fi. This is not a feel-good movie for the family. It's based on Ted Chiang's short story, "Story Of Your Life." A lot was added to flesh out a screenplay and script for a movie. In all, they did a great job.

Here's the deal, to tell the story of another person's life--the complete story--you have to know how and when they die. If you knew this about yourself or someone very dear to you, would you still come across time to accept that fate? Many would not. And many would.

I literally lost the love of my life less than three weeks ago. It is the most excruciating pain I have ever known, and pain and I are old companions. And yes, I would come across time to catch up with her again, despite the agony in store for me. She was THAT good.

Amy Adams owns this role, and Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker give great performances.

Hint: This movie is great in the way that the Star Trek TNG episode, "The Inner Light" is great. Know that and you'll love this.

For laser battles and mindless action sequences seek out something from JJ Abrams. If you love the New Star Trek, you'll likely hate this movie.

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I thought I was watching a well acted scifi movie with some major stars. It was supposedly about a translator Amy Adams trying avert some sort of war with space aliens by translating between us and them. A few minutes toward the end of the movie, the plot just goes down the drain and nothing is comprehensible any more and all forms of previous plot and storyline scrapped and it's suddenly a soap opera with no SciFi connections at all. I'm sick of picking a SciFi movie to watch and getting soap opera chick flicks instead. Horrible ending that didn't even make sense.

SPOILER ALERT...

There were scenes where she was having flashbacks to a daughter who had died of cancer or something. At least that's what it looked like.

The tension builds in the movie to the war getting ever more likely due to a Chinese General picking a fight with the aliens.

She somehow has a telpathic like contact with the aliens and the story goes to hell really fast. Now suddenly she's some sort of mind reader, future seer who is to save the world. She calls the general and tells him something we are never told about and the war talk ends and everybody backs down. Why? Wasn't explained and we don't know what she said to him. Then apparently we are in her future and she and the scientist are married and the dead daughter is alive and well and we are lead to believe her earlier flashbacks were what? Flash forwards?

And what has any of this got to do with the aliens or why peace was obtained? Who cares about her marriage and daughter? This is not supposed to be about her screwed up romantic life. Did the aliens travel for years and years to get here only to fix Amy Adams love life? What happened to the aliens? Why did the general back down? Why did this alien SciFi movie suddenly become a soap opera, love story, chick flick?

Completely incomprehensible ending that was a major disappointment to what had previously been a slow but good story. It's almost like they took the story away from a scifi writer and handed it to a soaps writer and said "Here now you do what you want to finish the story".

If it wasn't for the horrible meaningless ending, I might have given this movie 4 stars. But like it ended, it barely deserves 2 stars.

How did this get 4 stars? Slight spoiler alert follows... 3 aliens that look like a cross between elephants and octopus stand in a smoky blurry room and draw smoke rings over and over. That is the whole movie.

Easily the most extraordinary movie in my lifetime, both provocative and evocative. It bears viewing and re-viewing (I have already seen it about a dozen times) for the subtleties, even of verb tenses (tense = time) in the lines of the characters. The "sci" is not without some minor imperfections, but, in movies for mature minds, it is the "fi" which counts. The shifts in and of time are intriguing and well but not perfectly worked out, but, then, how can any play with time be perfectly worked out since we do not understand it? The theme of communication not only with the aliens, but also among people, is rich and multi-layered. There are moral questions in the relationship between the two leads which emerge to intrigue us, involve to some degree the philosophical questions about free will or determinism, but which viewers must answer for themselves.

The only interpretive comment which I shall make is about the mists which are evident everywhere; they play off the old metaphor, the mists of time.

You wait the whole movie for some action or to hear something profound and you get hokey bull. Amy's character can see the future? What a waste of my time. Bothe boring and ridiculous.

Iconic. Well thought out. This movie didn't hand you the info on a silver platter. It first gave you the menu, sat you in a really sweet comfortable area in a dimly lit cafe. There were appetizers, a main course, and dessert. The use of the cloudiness in dealing with the aliens, and a cloudy setting in Montana made you feel like a kid having to go to school on a rainy day, sitting on a bus, looking out at the overcast sky & daydreaming. It also raises a consistent principle from other sci-fi stories: What if aliens can communicate with us in our dreams?

So many pieces, I'm sure this is the movie that not only keeps you guessing, but one that you can come back to time and again and still discover something new!

This movie will be studied in film classes, science classes, philosophy classes, and psychology classes for sure!

Unfortunately, only in the movies is world peace possible =(

Spoiler Alert! The sequel is coming out 3,000 years from now ;)

I just finished watching this incredible film and wholeheartedly agree with the hype surrounding it, and the awards/accolades showered upon it that it won. The layered narrative was intelligent, devoid of spoon feeding, emotionally gripping and (in my opinion) an accurate representation of how our first contact would actually transpire.

I'm going to try and make this review as concise as possible, but it will be filled with spoilers because I feel that the negative reviews crying about the movie's pace and it's supposed 'randomness' and 'incoherence'/'nonsense' storyline are not only ridiculously inaccurate, but depressingly indicative of a generation of movie-goers and audience-participants afflicted with a kind of attention deficit derived from cancerous reality TV and unhealthy addictions to the 140/280-status-update-social-media-entertainment reality that unfortunately pervades society's everyday life now. ARRIVAL is not only an entertaining movie, but it's narrative made complete sense and was stunningly original and, ultimately, refreshing thanks to a kind of Drake-equation-authenticity approach to crafting a plausible scenario about humanity's first encounter with an advanced intergalactic wayfaring species.

So, being as brief and succinct as I can, here is the plot explained.

1. Louise and Ian are recruited to decipher the newly arrived visitor's language in an effort to uncover our guest's true motive for visiting.

2. I'm an earlier discussion in the film, Ian asks Louise about a linguistic theory and whether or not she abides by it's stated principal: when an individual immerses themselves in the study of new language(s), they ultimately rewire their synapses/brain chemistry and alter the way they interact with perceived reality and use of their senses. The name of the theory eludes me atm but it's stated in the movie.

3. Ian and Louise begin to immerse themselves in this new language with incredible results. Louise begins having flashbacks to the life of her and her husband daughter, who died at a tender young age from a rare, unknown affliction when she was a young teenager.

4. The round-the-clock immersion into Heptapodese logogram (the alien language and it's written symbols) also causes Louise to begin dreaming in Heptapodese logogram, as well as the Heptapodese spoken. This is evidenced by a brief spat between Louise and Ian where Ian asks Louise if she's been dreaming in Heptapodese instead of English, to which Louise replies, "so what, that doesn't mean I can't still do my job." The obvious takeaway is yes, Louise is in fact dreaming in the alien tongue (also evidenced by a very brief 5 second dream sequence where we see a Heptapod standing over Hannah and Louise's beds before Louise is jolted awake by the 18-hour-interval klaxon).

5. China and Russia give the Heptapods an ultimatum: leave in a day, or we will annihilate you; total destruction. Heptapods respond with a visual metaphor as well as a linguistic one: Twelve together are one (proceeded by the rotation of the Heptapod spheres revealing that each sphere is actually a perfectly measured fragment of an even bigger sphere which would be created if each of the twelve spheres parked in around the world decided to combine together (evidenced by Ian's measurement epiphany of 100 ÷ 12 after Heptapod Costello gives them that massively layered message). This makes Louise realize that the Heptapods are trying to tell them not to attack, but to combine all their knowledge learned from their encounters so they can communicate with them more productively. Against the wishes of cooler heads, a rogue faction of mutineers sabotage one of Louise and Ian's meetings with Abbott and Costello with C4 and Bushmasters in a futile attempt at attacking the Heptapods and killing Louise/Ian because of their antagonistic stance towards aggression. This of course fails, and the Heptapods save Louise and Ian by ejecting them from their ship before the c4 explosion can kill them. Unfortunately, the explosion mortally wounds one of the Heptapods and so all humans are now banned from entering the ship--except the translators.

6. Louise runs away from the compound after having a prescient vision of the Heptapod black ink swelling her hands which forces her to Intuit that the Heptapods want to speak to her and only her. So she runs to the middle of an open steppe and the Heptapods transport her aboard their ship. The surviving Heptapod expresses the other Heptapod's death to Louise to which she commiserates and apologizes for her species irrational and fearful behavior. She asks for the Heptapod to again reiterate the true nature/purpose of their visit, which it replies 'to help humanity, so that they can help us 3,000 years from now. ... The weapon we offer you is time. ... Louise can see the future." Louise learns that the Heptapods want to give her the gift of prescience/clairvoyance, but she can't understand how they will give it to her, or how it will work once they do give it to her.

7. Louise then has a 'flashback' about a conversation she once had at a UN event/Galla with General Shang, China's military figurehead spearheading the 24 hour ultimatum against the Heptapods. In this memory, Shang thanks Louise for reciting his wife's dying words of love to him because of the comfort and tranquility these words bring him in times of hardship. Louise then risks a charger of treason to make a satellite phone call to China to convince them to stand down from their ultimatum and to participate in the complete exchange and sharing of all gathered intelligence from the Heptapod interactions. Because of Louise's words to Shang, China agree s and the rest of the world follows China's lead.

8. Peace is restored as China softens it's stance and eliminates the ultimatum. The Heptapods leave after completing their job of giving humanity it's most useful weapon: itself. Humanity teams up to solve problems and boost progress, instead of competing and behaving surreptitiously. This is hinted at earlier in the film when Halpern comments to Louise and Ian something along the lines of 'How would you get anything done as an alien species if the other species your interacting with is divided into several leaders without one true position of power to guide everyone?' (not verbatim, but it's the exact spirit of what Halpern was saying.

9. Louise realises finally that, after all this time, her flashbacks of her daughter Hannah are actually prescient visions of a daughter that she has yet to give birth to. This epiphany tires back into the early part of the film when Ian take about the linguistic theory where fully immersing oneself in a new language alters the way one interacts with reality. Louise has immersed herself so deeply in Heptapodese logogram that it's effectively rewired her brain, making her clairvoyant.

10. It turns out that Ian is going to be Louise's future husband, and the father to their daughter Hannah. The movie ends with a sort of clairvoyant memory reel of the life of Louise, Ian, and Hannah's future journey together before tragedy takes Hannah away from them at a young age. We learn that the memories of Hannah randomly had throughout the movie were actually the sequences where her brain was altering itself as it tried to acclimate to this new prescient way of interacting with reality and time. Yet again, there's as very brief scene where Louise explains to the Colonel that Heptapodese logogram doesn't express time in a linear fashion like humanity's languages do--an early hint at the notion that whoever buckles down and learns Heptapodese logogram will ultimately be able to perceive time in a non-linear fashion.

Honestly, I thought ARRIVAL was a beautiful, almost magical film. It was so much more than a kind of ID4 Doomsday Alien flick that permeates the global cinematic universe. ARRIVAL may be a film about Heptapods and our attempts at understanding them, but ultimately it's a passionate movie about humanity coming together to genuinely better understand itself.

I know I said I would be brief, and I tried, but it looks like I failed (lol). Kudos if you read my wall of text, I hope this explained the story my clearly. If it clarified things, I also hope that it shorted your negative opinions on the film into more positive ones.

Bravo to Villeneuve and everyone involved in creating arrival. It's now in my top 5 alien films of all time! I give it six out of five stars and would definitely recommend to anyone who likes mature sci-fi with an emotional drama component to its narrative. Cheers

I thought the first one was bad. I think this one is worse. Kept waiting for it to get better, it didn’t. Yes I understand what the underlying message is. No that doesn't make the movie better. It is disjointed and predictable. Giant, time traveling squid aliens are good. All human military’s are stupid, paranoid and trigger happy. And the perpetually sad language professor is the only one who is enlightened enough to save the world.

I noticed that most reviewers that rank this movie poorly are attacked; called knuckle dragging imbeciles that only like Chuck Norris movies and didn't have the intellect to appreciate the majestic breath of this film.
Let's see then; these squids things come to Earth to make sure we don't kill ourselves because they can see into the future and they need us in the future to save or help them. Why? That's never explained, but maybe they are making sure that our population is bountiful so that they have something to eat when their planet runs out of food.
Then it's the lead actress; she gets the squids power, to see into the future, and sees that she will marry this man, have a daughter and the daughter dies young of a unmentioned fatal disease.
She CAN change her future, but choices not to. Her husband divorces her because she didn't tell him that she knew his daughter would die young. She has the child and she dies young. She chooses to let these tragedies happen anyway. What a nice person. How about adopting.
And, if she could tell the future AND choose to alter that future....why didn't she see alternatives futures? She just saw the ONE future.
And why add the military angle; bombing the squid space craft?
Yeh, what a probing intellectual piece of dog dung.

There is a lot of bought hype behind this movie but many of you can save yourself the aggravation of watching a bad movie and order ' Interstellar' instead. That is a truly fantastic movie with a big budget featuring top notch writing and great acting performances. Quite frankly I don't think Amazon should even be selling this movie because within 5 minutes of watching it I already had that sinking feeling I'd been had and yet I soldiered on to the inevitable bad movie ending. I could not believe how horrible this movie was. At least half the movie was shot in the dark to save money on sets, lighting and retakes. The screenplay could have been written by a child. I won't get into spoilers not that it would matter but please save yourself the time, money and frustration and avoid this disaster !

Perhaps the worst cinematography I have seen in many a day.
Couldn't they afford a couple of light bulbs?

What started as an interesting film eventually turned into moronic nonsense. It's the type movie of that college professors watch and hope to enjoy (because peers did ((they didn't really but had to prove how intellectual they are))). Uugh.
It's just bad. The best first contact film is still 2001, and will be for a long time.

I'm almost 70 and when I look back at my life it's like everything about it was talking to my future self, knowing how things were going to turn out, like destiny or fate. Back then I was just living it, but now I see the culmination, inevitability, and necessity of it all and how I was meant to reach this point of awareness. This movie is about that phenomenon. So, it describes a life's truth that I don't think you can appreciate without having experienced it. That means that the average individual will struggle with trying to interpret what they've seen, based on their own life's experience, which probably won't encompass the whole message being communicated here. I found this movie very interesting, educational even, without being very entertaining. It's certainly not on a par with "2001: A Space Odessey", which was captivating, engrossing, compelling, mind-boggling, and grand in scope and intensity; not even close.

At first I thought the movie was a bit slow, although that isn't a problem to me. As the movie went, I realized it was just handing out clues, one right after another, but you had to be patient to notice.

If what you want is action, this isn't your movie. If what you want is understanding, I think you'll enjoy it.

I adore Jeremy Renner but he was wasted in this film. He did an amazing job, as always, but his role, while pivotal, wasn't very large. At least, not as far as screen time, presence, and dialogue. I'm impressed to see him taking the back seat to a female lead. Although really, that shouldn't surprise me. He seems like a good guy, along with being a good actor, who isn't threatened by not being the focus of a film.

It's getting a 4 only because of a few places where they took shortcuts they shouldn't have taken. I'm sure there's a lot of good stuff on the cutting room floor, I just wish it had made it into the movie.

What a great teacher....I Am a Death Experiencer Oct. '92 while battling a fatal tumor..happened to be in the hospital when I died for 14mins. I so related to Louise meeting a different consciousness and having life experiences come strongly into the mix resulting in greater understanding & increasing intelligence as well as Connectedness beyond what we could imagine until something occurs that opens the flood gates and pours in such understandings Wisdoms & knowledge. I refer to myself as a Life Puzzle Master. Those who love to get puzzles & put them together....I do this with life...when Reading for People or translating what is happening at the time.....what is truly going on that gov'ts & media's do not want us knowing, etc, etc. This movie you will not want to leave it for a moment....hanging on to every bit of it...the mind riveting in absorbing what the movie is conveying. The movie is also fortelling of what the ruling elites are planning for us concerning their fake alien invasion..they will block ppl from buying guns...that is what occurred in the movie. So if you are familiar w/the 9 11 backtracking to so many movies, the simpsons, family guy, etc where it shows the world trade center buildings & date...you will pick up info like this in Arrival. I absolutely recommend watching this movie....I will be ordering the DVD...I loved every bit of this movie. Also....I encourage to read James Redfields book The Celestine Prophecy....things hit so well in what his book teaches....why things happened the way they do and how to take advantage of them when they happen so you will benefit the way Your Angels are wanting you to. All fits so well together...how I love it when all the pieces come together & one can see the MUCH BIGGER PICTURE....!

This is one of those rare movies that is subtle, engrossing, well written, and just in every way exactly what great science fiction should be. It doesn't go out of its way to pander, to point out how clever it is (one of the brilliant choices that just pays off so well with its reveal), or be the choppily edited ridiculously paced action thriller that has turned films in a thick morass of rotting sameness. That being said, like anything brilliant it does have its points that a nitpicker could take issue with. Forced exposition, inconsistent logic, etc. Note that none of these is a showstopper or even diminishes the enjoyment of it slightly, but there are plenty of interesting things that aren't explored as a result. One that occurred to me even well before the reveal- precisely why is it on the humans to figure out how to communicate? Sure, it's a great plot driver, but objectively it makes little sense. Ignoring the fact that the aliens should know precisely how to communicate with humans given the nature of their existence (learning from events not yet even in motion is a direct plot conceit in this movie after all), how are humans better able to bridge and adapt to alien com munition/thinking well before the prepared and much more advanced aliens do so? They not only have clear technological advantages, but unlike us they had an opportunity to study ahead. They knew they were coming to Earth. They could sit back, do research, listen to our TV and radio. Why would an advanced species have so much more of a difficult time comprehending our way of thinking than vice versa? It's a plot-driven notion of human exceptionalism that is a conceit of nearly every sci fi movie franchise, true, but that doesn't make it any more logical.

So, I'm not one of those people who didn't give this movie a great review because I didn't understand it, or didn't enjoy the complexity. That doesn't change the fact that this was the equivalent of a mid-level Outer Limits episode, but with a big budget and one hour too long.
My biggest issue was the illogical way in which the so-called scientists went about their study. Although (later) it was revealed that the aliens don't "deal well with our algebra," I personally might have tried teaching them stuff like "this is one, this is two" instead of jumping right into "hi, I'm Louise."
Also (spoiler alert) did nobody catch that the alien told Louise that she already had the present/gift/whatever, (which she was then able to use) so that kind of contradicts the whole "you only have 1/12 of it and need to work with all of humanity to complete it" message of unity that I thought this movie was supposed to be all about.

I understand that the aliens were incidental and used as a way to convey the underlying meaning of the movie (the true movement of time) but it was a complete waste of mine watching this

A thought provoking movie... I think the "slowness" other reviewers have complained about, especially compared to the action packed nature of other such films, is in fact very appropriate here.... the nature of the "gift" revealed to the lead character is experiential and exists outside of linear time. We all have the capacity to develop this gift but it is most often a slow process and so unfamiliar to our left brain oriented culture.

Others have referred to this as a "sci-fi chick flick"....so I'm guessing it was a male reviewer who hasn't yet begun to hone this gift or trust his "inner knowing" and intuitive, right brain "feminine side". At any rate our perception and experience of time in this 3D realm is changing and may eventually surpass the need for spoken language because it can no longer express the new reality we will eventually be moving into. There are a growing number of intuitives that already perceive the fluidity of the 'future' and the 'past' and travel easily in these nonlinear realms.
And that would be my only criticism of this movie....that it is already outdated by the shear number of people who have been developing the "gift" and have already pierced the superficial construct we call "time".

Absolutely excellent serious science fiction film, one that that is thoughtful, doesn’t rely on fast paced action, explosions (there is one explosion I will admit), battle sequences, or anything of the sort. Not that there is anything wrong with that and if you look at the other films I reviewed on Amazon, those are certainly movies I enjoy. _Arrival_ was intellectual, a film that thrilled you with the excitement of making discoveries, of figuring things out, of rooms full of smart people at the top of their game confronting a true mystery. It is also an arty, beautiful movie that science fiction elements aside, is a good film, with great acting, immersive photography and music, with superb writing when it comes to the human element, and as vast and mysterious and important as the first contact element is, very much has something to say about the human condition, on the nature of loss, memory, time, and on the lives of one particular family.

The movie centers primarily on a world renown linguist, Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams in for me personally the finest role I have ever seen her perform), tasked with communicating with aliens, mysterious somewhat squid-like beings that have arrived on impressive monolithic star craft, each hovering in a specific spot and ready to receive human visitors. There are twelve of them, and Louise is recruited along with physicist Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremey Renner who can really act) by U.S. Army Colonel Weber (played by Forest Whitaker) to head up science and linguist teams to study the aliens at the craft in Montana.

Louise, out of all the teams in different countries in the world, makes the most strides in communicating with the aliens (dubbed heptapods), occasionally having to overcome skepticism and caution by her superiors as well as the physical and mental challenges of communicating with the aliens. As a secondary plot the Chinese government starts to see the aliens as hostile and appears to be planning an attack on them, with Louise and Ian rushing to understand the heptapod language, why they are here, and to convince the Chinese to stand down (while the American government is ready to end the talks and perhaps join the Chinese in an attack).

Interspersed with the first contact events we learn Louise had a daughter named Hannah, who while having a wonderful childhood and a great mother-daughter connection, died at age 12 from an incurable illness (something you learn very early on in the film). The combination of eternal love for Hannah, happy memories of Hannah’s life, and lingering sadness at her death color much of Louise’s thoughts and her actions (and to my surprise tied in to an astonishing degree to what the heptapods offered).

I liked also how they didn’t just say Louise was a linguist and she magically could understand the heptapod’s language. She was shown with Ian’s help puzzling out how they spoke and thought, the viewer getting the frustration as well as the eureka moments, and also the fact Louise was a linguist, how she saw the world, through languages and understanding how someone’s language structures the reality around them was brilliant.

No complaints about the film! If you like serious science fiction, beautiful science fiction, science fiction that doesn’t forget the human element and doesn’t forget the science part, or a film that doesn’t really have red herrings, that ultimately everything ties together, I highly recommend this film.

My rating is more of a 4.5

Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer. he film follows a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrial aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war.

Perhaps some due credit should be given to the source material; ‘Arrival’ is based on a short story called "Story of Your Life" by an author named Ted Chiang. A faithful adaptation, ‘Arrival’ follows its predecessor rather closely and doesn't change too much about the plot for the sake of making it more entertaining or dramatic. Surprisingly, they complex parts in this novel (IE: The advancement of the language) tare compartmentalised and simplified in ‘Arrival’, but this in no way changes the substance of the story or the themes and values it takes into deep consideration. I applaud Denis Villeneuve in making accommodations for his target audience - people that aren't likely to be a linguist related experts - Without doing so at the cost of the depth embraces by Chiang in his own writing.

This isn't your regular science fiction movie, and when I say that I mean there is a large amount of action or explosions meant to keep one engaged. I would almost say that there are parts that are rather boring, but these are leveled out with scenes that are defined by some amount of sophistication and curiosity being salvaged amongst a pile of metaphorical rubble. All that is overt is obscured by some amount of mystery that consistently hangs in the background, and this alone provides some amount of suspense that is naturally alluring. ‘Arrival’’s pace is reminiscent of a phrase associated with Goldilocks…...it isn’t too fast...and it isn’t too slow….it’s just right.

Underneath the surface of ‘Arrival’ is a trove of themes that are endlessly waiting to be explored and marinated in. The implication that all that is foreign is dangerous (and should be treated as such) is deeply reflective of policies affected and created from biases that have this very juvenile and unwavering prejudice at its core. Moreover, it is even more powerful that the sheer willingness - not desire - to compromise and treat foreign entities with kindness does more to help the main character on her mission than any amount of manpower or violence. Perhaps even most importantly, ‘Arrival’ resonates with viewers and leaves them wondering how they would potentially change the way they live if given some amount of insight regarding the future.

I would recommend!
(And I’m not even super big on science-fiction movies!)

Read the reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews on Wikipedia. Bought the DVD. This movie cannot be considered entertainment by any stretch of the imagination. The only word I can think of to describe the director and producers is hubris.

12 alien ships arrive distributed around the globe. So to establish communication the heroine holds up a placard with her name on it - in English characters. Not basic symbols, but her name in block letters. The illogic continues to increase. The plot with its opaque flashbacks is incoherent.

Well over half of the scenes are so dark I could barely discern the actions, even with my TV brightness maxed out. At critical points dialog is so quiet it is not intelligible.

If the production staff had spent less on cocaine and more on professionalism and production values, and a rewrite of the script, this could possibly have been a B movie.

I normally like to buy DVDs where I've already seen the film and that comes with good extras, but lately, I've purchased a few that were movies I'd never seen before. This DVD was on sale for under $3. I do like good sci-fi and drama, so figured I'd give it a shot. The DVD actually doesn't feature any extras of note. It has a decent DVD case, but that's about it and that's why I give it an average '3' rating.

As for the movie, perhaps it was just over my head. At first I thought they were showing flashbacks, but it's really more of a flash forward situation, premonitions so to speak. There were some great moments when they were getting into the meat of the drama, but they just as easily could have named this movie: Breathing. If you like star Amy Adams breathing audibly, alot, then you'll like the movie. There are long segments where, whether wearing a hazmat suit or just in normal attire, all you hear is Adams' breathing. No one else does that, not even in their hazmats. She just breathes and breathes, and every time I thought they were done with that, she'd do it again.

I'd call this an intellectual film, like Contact. You really have to be able to understand what is going on and how they get from A to B. My understanding is that they actually created a full linear language for the alien race depicted. That was interesting, but difficult for a non-intellectual like me to follow fully.

For most of the movie, I found myself thinking it was a mix of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For the former, it's the alien race who lands ships all over the globe and no one knows why. Then it ebbs into Close Encounters, the extended ending where Dreyfuss goes into the ship to try to take it all in. Most of the movie is in this mode, getting inside and trying to learn to communicate with the aliens. For a brief moment, I thought we were going to get a slice of Independence Day, the battle moment, but that didn't actually happen.

So, average DVD in terms of presentation. The story is intriguing, but too slow for me at times, times when all you get is Amy Adams breathing, or sometimes we just watch her staring. She stares a lot and sometimes she's staring and breathing. The key word in the movie is "weapon" and what that turns out to be is a novel idea that I like, but again, maybe this movie is a little over my head because I'm not an intellectual and I think that's who it's made for.

I'm glad I didn't pay more than $3 for it and if I had to do it again, I wouldn't. Intellectuals or high concept folks, though, may love this movie, along with people who like to listen to Amy Adams breathe, stare, breathe again, stare again, and breathe some more.

This may be one of the best offerings on Prime in a long time. I loved this story of appreciating life and accepting the good with the bad. Of not being afraid to live or making the wrong choices. The movie wants to tell you that all parts of your life are beautiful, even the ugly and painful ones. Why is it that when someone leaves us, either by death or by choice, we only remember the last thing that happened? Why not live in the time enjoyed?

That said, this film is not without flaws. It's visually dark. Forest Whitaker tries to pull a weird accent. And as for the "twist," I'm not sure what people are talking about. I knew pretty early on what was going on with the time concept and who would be involved. I don't see the point of the movie to be a twist, but rather a coming together. It's hard to explain. It's like a circle that makes sense at every point.

A circle. Like the universal language in the story. The written characters make me think of Zen's enso, or circle. Think about life in terms of circles instead of lines (time lines, lines of print) like you do now. Then you'll get it. When you travel completely around a circle, you are arriving again.

A film intended for a more adult audience, it had a profound message of appreciating the small moments you have with those you love because they go by fast and life is precious and can end at any time. Sadly, it's mixed in with a lot of united nations/bilderberg group/tri lateral commission/ council on foreign affairs propaganda. Putting aside the "one world order" subtle suggestions inserted throughout the film, and instead focusing on the tribal family instincts propagated by the emotional soundtrack will probably successfully manipulate most Americans into a false sense of patriotism and independence combined with a larger philosophical importance to unite under the leadership of the U.S.A. Also discounting the line said by Forest Whitaker "The natives encountered a superior race and almost got wiped out" was so incredibly self reflexive and ironic, that only a black man cast as a general could say that without media crucifixion and considerable controversy. Why 5 stars if I am so critical? Well, it was a story that was well woven together. And stories who convey meaning effectively attain their purpose. Just because I don't agree with most ideologies in the film doesn't mean I can't appreciate the intricacies of a well drafted script and an excellent performance on the part of the thespians.

I absolutely loved this film. You really have to watch until the very end to put it together. It's about accepting what comes in life and dealing with it knowing that the pain and joy are intertwined. This reminded me of my dad who at the end of his life asked me if he had been a bad father. He asked this because of financial problems we had growing up. But I reassured him that he did so much for us that many fathers wouldn't do, like take us lots of places and travel with us. As a kid I probably blamed him for the issues we had but when I got older I realized how hard life must have been for him. This film made me so glad that he was my dad but also upset that he couldn't have had a more stress free life.
Did I mention it has aliens? Oh that. But they are just a vehicle for the larger life issues in the film: Overcoming fear, accepting each other, refusing to accept conventional narratives and forging ahead to follow our instincts and what's true.

There are films in which the audience experiences the characters directly, without an external point of view. There are films in which the audience carries a unique point of view, knowing something the characters do not. And there are films in which the editor intentionally leaves the audience in the dark, disconnected from the character and without a special, external point of view.

While beautifully shot, well paced, and breathtaking in the concept and approach, this film falls somewhere in the realm of the first and third categories (as described above). We are experiencing the flashbacks of the lead character while at the same time being lead down a rabbit hole of intentional jumps in time.

The first time I viewed the film, I swore I would not watch it again. The second time I viewed, I found myself more drawn in, less confused, more engaged. I find the cliche military vs scientist old, stagnant, and not at all imaginative, but the interaction between the interpreters and aliens is creative, novel, and haunting.

It's a good film. Certainly worthy of being a part of your sci-fi collection. Could it be better? Certainly. But it's not bad.

First movie seen on Amazon Prime; quick pick due to partner's interest in ET. Not a particular ET fan myself, I thought one of the best artistically intriguing parts of the movie is the ET interaction graphics. Another best part is the acting mainly of main character, Amy. Where I had difficulty is the timelines; what at first seem to be flashbacks (as we expect/assume a linear story), slowly turn into what could be understood as flashforwards. The circular time theme is resonated in the ET's purpose; however, it is not clear if the experiences of Amy are related to this, or if she has these capacities herself to begin with. The story then concludes with her capacity being the main driver for the resolving of conflict, and we are left with the beginnings of her life's next chapter, which we were introduced with in the beginning. Overall pretty cerebral (maybe from a book ?), graphically fascinating and intriguing delivery of story. But one star off, for somewhat shaky end leaving a little too much for my taste to the viewer to figure out. I don't want to have to watch a movie twice to 'get it', but that might be no problem for you.

This is possibly one of the best Sci-Fi stories ever told. (It's true that Science Fiction is only a backdrop for a much deeper premise, but I don't see how this story could have been told without Science Fiction, so I consider it solid Science Fiction.) Most Sci-Fi movies today have humanoid aliens with human motivations, or monsters intent on conquering or devouring humanity. In Arrival, the aliens are truly alien - they are a complete enigma until the last part of the film. Another plus: this isn't a message movie - the aliens aren't here to scold humanity about "destroying the planet" or some such.

I'll just leave it at that, since saying any more would mean spoilers.

(Literally the only problem I have with this movie is... It's very dark. I don't mean that the story is dark, I mean that it looks like they underexposed all the film. I found it very hard to see anything. Even the outside scene, in full sun - the only one in the movie - is dark. I assume the filmmaker wanted this to be foreboding, but it's very over-used.)

Like many of the other reviewers I also thought it would be your run of the mill, scary alien invasion movie. And it wasn't that at all. Well there was aliens though lol. I'm not a fan of scary so I was hesitant watching this. And I was by myself so I was ready to turn it off if it got too scary and that didn't happen. I watch a lot of Doctor Who and Torchwood and it's probably as scary as those are so if you can watch those you can watch this. There's this scene in a Torchwood episode that was very similar to the setup in the spaceship. (Aliens in smoke behind glass.) So it reminded me of that but those Aliens were malicious when Abbott and Costello arent. So other than the aliens there's an underlying theme that's hinted throughout the movie. We find out right away that she loses her daughter and had a great loss in her life. And the end loops back to that. (Trying not to give too much away. I hate spoiling things for people.) But pretty much the movie asks even if something ends badly is it still worth going through the good parts of it? My answer would be yes. And if we knew how it would end? Still would be a yes. I wish I knew before some of the bad things that have happened in my life. Not just to want to stop them but to appreciate the good. I need to remember to appreciate things more. And this movie opened my eyes to that. Thank you.

A gem. Gems are invariably imperfect, and this movie has some imperfections, due mainly to the impossibility of understanding the challenges of interacting with an extraterrestrial being. Basically, it's all so much simpler in the movie than it is likely to be, should it ever take place. But the movie gets one thinking about those challenges in a deeper way than any other movie of its genre with whichI am familiar. Perhaps some Star Trek episodes come closest. Apart from the theme, the movie is superlative in visual terms. Also, the directing is excellent. The scenes are highly controlled, we see just what we need to see, from the director's perspective. The pace is slow but always moving forward. There is time to think about what is happening and to drink in the visuals. I didn't understand how the plot was resolving itself until well through the movie. I liked that. In a sense, we are coming to an understanding of what is happening pretty much as Louise herself is gaining that understanding. Wonderful.

Good grief. One of the best movies I've seen in years.

Jeremy Renner did, as others have remarked, bring a little too much of himself to this roll for my taste. Not that he didn't act it well, I just expect a little more from a character when I see his face. Ian's roll felt like a supporting roll, and Renner feels too big for that for me.

But that was inconsequential when compared to narrative of the quandary presented to humanity, and how Louise coped with it. Rather Contact-esk. But almost.... better in some ways. Certainly with more immediate consequences. I've got a copy of Contact on my shelf. But I can easily tell I'll watch this far more often over the years than Contact.

And then the twist. Ouch. I cried for an hour! HA! I need to go watch it again, I'm sure there is more to see and understand now that I've seen it the first time.