The bird comes from a long time ago. Miners used to bring a small bird with them to the mines. If the bird struggles or dies there is gas in the air that can harm the humans. As the bird is more fragile it reacts faster to the problem. They are doing the same here as it would be very hard to test for every possible gas, or even ones we don't know about. If the bird dies we can assume the environment is toxic to humans. The bird has a sucky job. 😞

Ian’s saying “It wasn’t meeting them, it was meeting you” summarizes the movie’s message; good science fiction isn’t about the science, or aliens if there are any - it isn’t about “them”, it’s about US. Human emotions, human ethics, human prejudices, our hopes, our dreams, our fears, what brings us joy and grief, what we do and why we do it. Absolutely fantastic movie ! Thanks so much for your spot-on reaction !!!

This is a great film to watch more than once. Because the second time, you're experiencing it the same way Louise does. It's all there in the opening monologue when they transition from the montage with Hannah to Louise arriving at school on Arrival Day when she says "memory doesn't work the way I thought". It's VERY subtle and you only notice it on the 2nd viewing. I hope you enjoyed Arrival even a fraction as I did. Thanks for watching & sharing.

This movie is based on Ted Chiangs short story "Story of your Life". Arrival taught me that Governments communicating with each other is much more challenging than Humans communicating with Aliens

Easily one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Denis Villeneuve is a genius! Watch ALL his movies!

Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing.

The aliens came to give us a new form of communication. The whole reason there was any stress is because of humans' lack of communication. They accidentally call their language a weapon. In English there is a phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Meaning that communication and being able to convince ppl is stronger than brute force. A few pieces of symbolism I picked up on.

Ian named the Heptapods "Abbott and Costello" after the American comedy duo in the 1940s and 1950s. The duo made a famous comedy routine called "Who's on First, What's on Second" (google it) about one person misunderstanding another person's use of words in describing Baseball.

Arrival is a Masterpiece from Villeneuve!

I was SOOOOOO happy to see you two react to this movie. It is one of my all-time favorites! I dropped everything I was doing to watch your reaction. Something to think about: I believe Louise's ability to perceive her life in a non-linear fashion allows her a significant advantage over Ian in terms of dealing with their daughter's illness and death. For Ian, perceiving time in a linear fashion, Hannah's life starts out representing everything that is beautiful and hopeful. When she gets sick, all of that beauty and hope becomes a crushing heartbreak for him. For Louise, she can actively experience the most beautiful moments of her daughter's life before, during, and after Hannah's sickness. Talk about living in the moment! I have a couple movie recommendations of quality films for you to add to your reaction list (love stories with a twist): "The Lake House" (Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock), and "About Time" (Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams). Love you both!! ♥♥

She didn't predict the future, she lived it. And she learns their language she begins experiencing time all at once. At first it's just these flashes that she doesn't understand because she does not understand their language yet. But when she starts to truly grasp it she's able to exist in multiple points in her timeline at once. So she has never had a child everything she sees of Hannah are her living those moments in the future. And at the end of the movie she decides to have the child anyway knowing what's going to happen... Not just knowing but experiencing it all at the exact same time.

My wife and i have lost two children. To me this is one of the most beautiful films ever. A similar movie about time is Tenet (another palindrome - for good reason) but it is SUPER confusing. Im not sure anyone actually understands it. Oh, and the movie, Everything, everywhere, all at once. Also, Cloud Atlas - but that is a bit different and emotionally devastating.

Often people who watch movies think that because if the sequence of frames and the time they are showing a movie, approximately 1-4 hours, that the time represented in the movies takes shorter time than it often does. Hours, days, week, month, etcetera, can pass between shots without the makes choosing to specify that with a line of text. You have to _see between the frames_ so to speak.

General Shang’s wife’s dying words were there’s no winners in wars only windows.

I watched this movie in November and it makes me really cry

Really good to see an actual sci-fi movie

"The Time Traveler's Wife" with Eric Bana & Rachel McAdams 2009

We look at time through the only lens we have Earth. We should expect that if we ever meet some other form of intelligent life it would look at time differently. Dimensions, folding space, even something we have not discovered or understand would, could be possible. Just a few years ago on the ISS, we discovered that like elements, in space attract to each other and bond. When we crashed a small probe into a comet recently we learned that a much larger portion of the outer form of the comet is loose in place, not solid. We even had a small camera watch this happen when it crashed, it was stunning. We learned recently that there is indeed frozen water in the small area of the moon that never see's sunlight. It is why there are humans going back to the moon. Water enables us to exist on the moon, even shielded from the sun, able to build and exist there for weeks, months, years. The Webb telescope is already changing what we know about the universe. It is looking at spectrums of light we cannot see with our eyes. We only left and orbited the earth 65 years ago. Landed on the moon 54 years ago. What could we discover in the next 100 years? If we don't end up killing everything or everybody. Great reaction, one of my favorite movies, with a touching question, if you knew what your life would be till you die. Would you want to know? I say yes. 🌌🌌🌌

40:20 "the movie is super messed up..." - just so, Mish; one of those films that, by the end, the more you consider its implications, the more mind-boggling it gets. If you you knew your lifespan from start to end - would you still live it through? Or not? Would it be possible to change it at all? ❤💥

Incendies from Denid Villeneuve is another masterpiece. Very troubling but amazing at the sametime.

Amy Adams is the best actress of the Earth, she can make every kind of character You should watch Her movies, Enchanted and the secuel disenchanted ❤❤❤❤❤

"Arrival" - like others by its director, Denis Villeneuve - BOTH packs an emotional punch AND makes you think, often with a strangely bittersweet, ambiguous combination of emotions that still manage to offer hope and be life-affirming. If you're looking for another film of his that accomplishes this trick in the context of a film about the consequences of living through the trauma of a civil war, you should watch his early film, "Incendies". I like to think of it as the most horrifying and wonderfully uplifting "Mother's Day" film imaginable...

The actress who looks so familiar to You is Amy Adams she play Louise lane the journalist who find out the Superman secret identity in man of steel and discover the Lex Luthor plan in Batman v Superman the Best superhero couple

It's your turn to see: CONTACT (1997).

I'm so glad you reacted to this because I know it means other reaction channels will now do reactions to it. 😊 Wonderful film. A real work of art.

Of course the Aliens would like Viki, she's Viki out of Space

It's really a story about her daughter with aliens in it. Love the subtlety

Four movies that challenge the viewer: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moon, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not. Have fun. (hint: in 2001: A Space Odyssey the computer is NOT evil. So why does it do what it does?)

Oh good, you had a similar reaction to me when you see one in her dreams. It was super eerie for me that moment, but felt like not many people had something similar to me.

Just a coincidence that Louise's house has a big bank of windows similar to the glass panel on the alien's craft? And at one point Ian is outside and Louise raps on the glass to get his attention? So many layers to this onion of a movie.

*It's a love story.* - Vicky 💙

Fantastic video, ladies. Some of this movie reminds me of the first weeks of Covid--19, when we were all stressed in a health emergency and trying to communicate through masks or shields. Thank you, Viki, for trying to save the world in your dream. I appreciate your service.

The film refers to a fairly recent theory concerning UFOs, based on research in quantum physics which tends to show that time (past present and future) does not exist, at least not in the form that we have established. These UFOs would therefore not be, for some of them, objects coming from other solar systems but from other dimensions, or from other times. This is why in the film, past present and future are mixed. When you think about it, it is quite logical that an extraterrestrial civilization that would be thousands of years ahead of us could manipulate time. It may even be possible that they are humans from the future who visit us again to make sure that we don't do too much stupid things in their past. In any case this film is a change from stupid films with superheroes and supervillains, the level zero of SF, made for brainless customers to be just customers.

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The Girls: "I hate how it starts...." Me: "Well actually......."

You guys have reacted to this directors other work: Dune and Sicario. I hope you check out hai other films Blade Runner 2049, Enemy, Incendies and Prisoners

this stuff isnt complicated. it always blows my mind when people overthink things. the tool helps her see every step of the future. thats it. it IS that simple.

I recommend Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughey.

Arrival and Interstellar are exponentially better than all the current junk science fiction films combined. 👍👍

“In war there are no winners, only widows”, those were the chinese general’s wife dying words. My favorite piece of trivia: the fantastic music theme (“On the nature of daylight”) is also a palindrome: you can hear it the same playing it forwards and backwards. Ladies, you are meeting with some FINE cinema here. “Arrival” is in my top 3 movies all around of all time. In some sort of the same line of sci-fi, comparatively smaller but very interesting: “Another Earth”, starring the fabulous Brit Marling (whose series “The OA” you would love, I’m sure). Even smaller but powerful and kinda twisted too, a favorite of mine: “The man from Earth”. PS: no spoilers, no hints, but now you GOT to watch “Memento”!!!

Birds let you know if you are running out of air. They used to use them in mines to warn the miners that the oxygen is getting depleted. Humans will become confused (kind of like being very high) when low on oxygen. This makes it so humans usually are confused and then just die. Its hard for use to respond properly to they symptoms of running out of air. But if you see a bird die then its an instant warning sign and there is no confusion as to what is happening. I have seen videos of ppl (i think military pilots) training in chambers to respond properly to being cut off from air (more precisely oxygen).

According to the writer, the dying words of General Shang's wife was, "In war, there are no winners, only widows."

So sticking with a Forest Whitaker theme and another great movie I'd suggest Phenomenon with Forest and John Travolta as the leads. Another one I just thought of which has great character would be The Count of Monte Cristo.

I just started watching this reaction and never noticed the shot from 1:17 to 1:19 and how her daughter looks with the costume. I love this movie and have seen it several times and don't know how intentional that was, but that's crazy...

The reason they have the bird is because birds are more sensitive to toxins in the air. They have a two-cycle respiratory system, whereas mammals have one-cycle respiratory systems. Believe it or not, if you burn a nonstick pan, it can kill a bird. Long time ago, miners would take a canary into mine shafts to test air quality. So if you hear the saying "canary in the mine / mine shaft" that basically means some sort of early-warning system or a "red flag" about a dangerous situation.

Luis had to have a child, because in her mind, she never died, and the connection in the bonding that she had with the child was already there

This is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for reacting to it. They don't have the same heart as Arrival, but my other favorites from the last decade are The Martian (2015), and Dune (2021). Cheers.

This movie is actually free on KZfaq movies 😆✨

This movie ❤ 👍😊

This was Viki's dream .... in a movie. 🙂

Minority Report (2002). SciFi thriller with Tom Cruise.

By the way, Clara is a slow burn type of movie, not at all about action or war. The ending is wworth the wait.

Another AWESOME sci-fi movie is "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

The relationship of the mom and daughter crushed me so so much….

Glad you got to watch this movie, it's easily become one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time!

Great reaction to a great movie! Maybe do Close Encounters of the Third Kind next, similar theme. I enjoy going back to the movies with my girls!

Depending on how or where it is used, Yes in Japanese can mean 'Yes' 'No' or 'Maybe'

"It was a bomb!" If you see something that has writing on "Charge Demolition", dont be there.

Recommendations: Inception (2010) and Gattaca (1997).

If you like Arrival, you would also like the movie "Contact" (1997)...

Christ on a bike. At long last, these women got to watch something PHENOMENAL. (Avatar 2 was a visual masterpiece and I really enjoyed that movie on IMAX 3D. Of course you can't expect it to be outstanding in terms of script. But James Cameron's magic when it comes to sci-fi, is completely unreachable. Even the best vfx from Marvel looks outdated after watching that movie). But "Arrival" was like "Holy s**t I legit didn't see that coming..." Villeneuve left me speechless

Enjoyed this reaction so much

Oh wow, thanks for negotiating on our behalf, Viki! 😁

One of my favorite movies ^^

It's different, but you can watch "la belle vert", an old particular french movie, definitely worth it. Not sure about the translation in english of title tho...

girls ANY and EVERY combination of the 4 of you is equally amazing

"Movie like this?" Only one I know of is 60 years old. The original "The Day the Earth Stood Still." They are both at that top level. p.s. Hannah, child's name, is same forward or backward.... Like time.

I love this movie as much as I did when I first saw it in the cinema.

Maybe you've already reacted/seen this one, but Shutter Island is a really good one. It'll stay with you! (But Arrival is SUCH a great movie; glad you liked it!).

Ladies next movies to react to should be The Jackal, Demolition Man, Blade, True Lies, 007 🎉🎉

Please watch the movie “Starman”!! A great alien movie that nobody ever reacts to. It’s awesome!!

12:10 The bird in the cage is an old miners trick. They would regularly lower birds into a mine shaft and if the bird died they would know it wasn't safe

Top tier sci fi movie. Great ending

Predestination (2014) Sci-Fi with Ethan Hawke. Thriller, mistery. For if you want "messed-up". A bit darker, but not to dark. (A separate comment, so others can like and react separately.)

Canary in a coal mine.

This was really a good sci-fi movie hands-down the best 💯

Canary's are taken with to detect dangerous gasses.

Hey Guys I love this movie.

Hands down, your best reaction ever. Love it, ladies.

The guy that did this movie did Sicario, Prisoners , Dune, to name a few , you’d like prisoners too for sure . Think you’ve done Dune and Sicario already. Vellenue (sp?) is one of my favorite in Hollywood, him and Ari Aster (for horror) James Wann (horror) and A24 my 3 favorites in Hollywood thst I’ll see everything by all 4

This movie is like Clara, a wonderful 2018 movie also about first contact

Future Luis was narrating the movie from the beginning. And she wasn’t seeing the future. The future in the present were happening at the same time.

The word you were looking for is coffee-ring.

Hi girls, amazing movie, amazing reaction ❤ Did you realize that Louis's apartment was the same as the ship?

Next movies to react pls: MOONFALL GREENLAND (R. CROWL) KNOWING (N. CAGE) NEXT (N. CAGE) DAY THE EARTH STIL STOOD (K.REAVES) BATTLEFIELD L. A. (A.EKHART) WAR OF THE WORLDS (T. CRUISE) all of them are awesome

probably my fav sci-fi after the matrix

This movie was an amazing trip, a huge roller coaster of emotions.

I am writing this to help out the homies and this video and this channel with the algorithm ♥️✌️😘😊

This movie is a real mind-fuck.

I like Aliens and Independence day of alien movies 😊

Time is relative. 😮

Why is it that in all of your reactions, 90% of what's left in the reaction video is them talking over the movie, but every scene that is most important for any reaction is edited out?

I like both of you as team 👏👏

I think you would like Cloud Atlas!

Es cine 🗿🚬

Thanks for your reaction 👍

She was unstoppable.

Time stops whenever I see this movie . . . .

The trippy part is to realize that everyone who learned the language began to see time this way. The president of China, Shang, also learned it and when he did he knew he would give Louise the information she needed in the past to complete the time loop.

please react to The Hitcher. the original 80s version :)