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This film had so much emotional impact on me that I haven't been able to re-watch it. Yet.

I like arrival because it doesn’t portray aliens as these copies of humans. Most modern pop culture portray aliens as humanoid creatures, but if aliens exist, they won’t look like humans at all. Aliens would follow their own rules of evolution and biology depending on the conditions they live in. The aliens in arrival are “accurate” because they evolved differently than humans and would have no chance of looking like humans. Also, I like how the movie doesn’t portray aliens as unfeeling monsters, but instead complex, intelligent, and interesting creatures with a mysterious past . Arrival is just a good movie all and all.

You left out something very important. "We help humanity. In 3000 years, we need humanity's help. "

i would give anything to watch this movie for the first time again

As someone who speaks several languages I can confirm that when you are immersed in a language your whole being adapts and changes, it's not just language it's also body language and attitude and understanding. Different languages seem to 'need' different senses to be practiced or understood.

Our illusion is that we go from past to future. We go from Now to Now.

The idea with time in this movie isn’t as complicated as some are making it out to be. It’s not Back to the Future time travel where you can change the future by going to the past. The aliens reveal that they experience time all at once. Louise realised this when she experiences “memories” of her future in a kind of “deja vu” way. That’s it. All she can do is “remember” the future. She does this because her future already happened, the same way we remember the past because it already happened. It’s all predetermined. The point was showing that Louise now appreciates the beauty of her life because she sees all the joys and pains of life in hindsight, even though she hasn’t lived through those experiences yet. It’s a great theme and some people are too wrapped up in the physics of it that they just don’t get it, man.

There was a scene that Louise told Ian that she doesnt know how to explain to Ian what she experienced. Thats an allusion i think to what Wittgenstein said that "even if a lion could talk, we wouldnt be able to understand him".

"I have traveled the world only to arrive back where I started and to know the place for the first time." It's about the journey the mind takes to understand itself, and how everything else follows. To know ones own mind is to know the universe within.

IF you watch this movie a second time, immediately after watching it the first time, you can understand the alien language.

I’m an ASL Interpreter and this is one of my favorite films ever. Being bilingual has completely changed my brain and the way I think, it’s such a beautiful thing. This movie really hits home how it shapes your mind, especially when he asks Louise if she dreams in their language. I’ve been learning for over seven years and I dream that people I know, my friends and family who don’t know ASL, will be signing with me and I’ll remember it when I wake up. It’s such a strange thing.

I think Hannah drawing her parents “talking to animals” and Hannah’s play dough heptapods meant Louise was able to teach Hannah the circular language and Hannah could see visions of the past (and presumably the future) as Louise can. Louise has to teach humanity the circular language and Hannah was her first pupil.

Man the end of the video had me shivering and almost tearing up, amazing hidden meaning of this movie.

I love this movie, specially how it views languages. Me, as an Spanish native speaker, I can think in English without the necessity of translating in my mind, I always thought of that but I never saw it portrayed in film, and certainly not as amazingly as this film does. Great analysis, great video!

I'm sure someone has already said this but...."Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

One thing you didn't mention is the Heptapods self preservation motive for contact. 3,000 years in the future, humanity aids the Heptapod species, possibly from a disaster. It's not stated exactly how we help, but we do, and become good friends with the Heptapods.

It's almost a creepy coincidence that you come out with a video about Arrival the day before I have to write an essay on the film for my class. Thanks for coming in clutch for me man! Really needed this to get my brain really stimulated for this!

This movie really left an impact on me. I still remember after I watched this movie for the first time, someone in the theatre shouted, demanding a refund for the ticket because they had came expecting to see something like Aliens/Independence Day/ any other blockbuster alien invasion movie. This memory really revealed to me that experience and knowledge can totally change ones' view on life and understanding of our environment. Having an open mind that is permeable to new experiences and comprehensions is always.. IMPORTANT.

this movie along with interstellar are such beautiful and mind blowing films and i would do anything to see them for the first time again

When I watched Arrival for the first time, I walked away thinking that the movie was the closest portrayal (possible) to how God (seeing all parts and the whole) must think. It was truly moving and thought provoking.

I lost my Dad when I was 12. I watched him die slowly over a number of years, including his final moments. If you think about life as a pathway, death comes at the 'end' and childhood at the 'start'. Ordinary cause and effect, or in life following a 'normal' progression (your parents dying after you've grown up) means you'll experience said progression piece by piece, for me that wasn't the case. I was almost perptually sad for much of my life, felt an overwhelming sense of sadness and I couldn't undstand why. Arrival helped me to understand that it was seeing my fathers death as a child that caused this. I saw the end of the 'progression' before I had fully experienced the beggining. It was like seeig the final words of a book as 'it passed, the end' before you'd even finished the first chapter. That overwhelming feeling Amy Adams' character felt was what I felt. Only when she learnt to appreciate life for all that it brings could she fully appreciate it, as I am now learning. I always wondered why I saw meaning where others didn't, felt the scope of life beyond the immediate, it's because I saw it's true extent. Magically but harrowingly, I learnt to apprecaite it's presence, through an awareness of its end.

Man just watched the movie. The alien saying the other one "is in death process" was soooo freaking sad 😢

It wasn't that she had to learn their language in order to receive a message. It was that the language _in and of itself_ *was* the message that she needed to receive, and that in learning the language she would be transformed in her mind.

Loved the connection between the room (where the humans interact with the aliens) looking like a movie screen. I would also point out that the alien ships, in addition to being an echo of 2001's monoliths, are also slightly *lens* shaped, seeming to reference how our eyes gather light and focuses it on our retina.

There is another video explaining arrival that has almost 5 million views and it's a terrible analysis with a lot of wrong interpretations. Why do you barely have 160K???? This analysis is brilliant.

This and Sicario are two of my favorite films and to think Denis probably hasn't even made his best film yet is such a wonderful thing to keep looking forward to.

a decade ago i remember watching a documentary and there was a linguistics professor saying that our languages will someday evolve in such a level that we would be able to explain colors to blind people successfully.

Given our human nature, being able to see your life in a circle all at once would be extremely painful. We would have to evolve into something else in order for us not to go insane by the fact that you are able to see everything and not be able to change a thing.

Arrival is a once in a generation movie that's highly underappreciated. Once I saw Arrival, I was able to figure out Deja Vue. The French had it right, it's 'seen before' not done before. When we sleep, we let go of our conscious manipulations of decision points and we can see all the possible decision points we will make. Sometimes, we get it right (or remember it), and when we get to that exact decision point, we remember it as Deja Vue, because we have seen it before. Also, at the time this movie was released, I was delving deep into the nature of Quantum Existence Reality. For me, everything I've experienced has led me to believe that we exist as individual Quantum Entities (our own quantum supercomputer) and that we make reality as we go. Timespace is the after effect of our existence, not the other way around, as was commonly thought. The more we exist, the bigger Quantum Existence Reality gets. Put simply, we are the reason the universe is expanding.

i give you the spoiler and understanding for those who have watched it but still dont get it, : the "WEAPON" word translation was a misperception by the human translators, which actually the word ADVANTAGE. it has BROAD implications. which can refer to "skills", power, ability, resources, etc , everything that put you in "ADVANTAGE". thats why the alien said "use weapon". the moral in the story is, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR ADVANTAGE. whatever it is. skills, influence, etc. in the story, the character louise has been given the ability to see TRAJECTORY in life. (by the alien i think when they touch the glass together). so the louise character perceived it as a "gift". while it actual meaning is ADVANTAGE. and her advantage is that ability to see the future and the trajectory of time. and the aliens sees in the time trajectories that some 3 thousand years later, they will meet with human race from earth again in some event that would have the aliens in needing situations and the humans are the nearest ones available that could change things. at least thats what the story is implying. and i love how the story describe the "universal language" in visuals, in the shape of LOOP. no not the "twisted" number 8 no, LOOP. a CIRCLE. because thats COHERENT WITH REALITY OF THE UNIVERSE. thats how things goes. space and time. that is the shape of "existence". contradictory to human's number "zero". the loop circle shape actually means EXISTENCE. it has no ends. in the real universe, ETERNITY is a LOOP CIRCLE shape. not number 8.

The movie proves its easier to communicate with an alien than nations communicating amongs themselves.

I know you made this video years ago, but as a student of psycholinguistics and a lover of quantum emergence theory, I gotta say… to me this film felt less like a new alien language *did something to her, so much as her own capacity to understand new potentialities for reality had to click for her to even be able to entertain the concepts their language was trying to communicate. As a result, she was able to perceive reality the way the heptapods already knew it to be: as self-actualizing and non-linear (quantum emergence theory) and that her passive flashbacks of her future were like picking up FM radio stations in some new metal plate in her head. That in fact, reality had always been non-linear and self-actualizing, but because humanity hadn’t yet encountered anything to totally reframe how they experienced it, those “Fm radio stations” went completely unnoticed…. Until now. Her worldview didn’t change because she had new vocabulary, her fundamental understanding of reality had to evolve to be able to understand their vocabulary. And it was that shift in her, not the language itself, that prompted the non-linear visions. (Was my takeaway anyway)

Arrival is one of those movies that mark a very prominent before and after in your life.

My brain just melted trying to understand half the words he said, but the way he said it kept me hookes. Great music.

I watched the film when released, and out of nowhere, durling my study of language, these images - unique pictographes came back to my mind and ended up to find this wonderful explanation. Thanks for making me deeper, immerce to the world.

the arrival is one of my favorite movies and i've watched it 5 times. i enjoyed it much. one of the lessons i learned from the movie is to embrace what is in store for us in the future no matter how painful it would be; accept life as it is. however, thanks to this video by explaining the hidden meaning of the movie. i thought, i already got the real point of the story. a big realization that there is more. thanks to this video again and again. this makes me more excited to watching the film again. in addition, i look forward to watching more videos from this channel. kudos! you've got a new subscriber! :)

Finally! He's back!

This is one of those rare cases where the film is better than the novel that inspired it. Maybe that's not really fair to say, because they're kind of two different beasts, but I was very disappointed with how the novel ended. In the novel **spoilers** there is no reason for why the heptapods came, and they suddenly leave without giving any explanation for their departure. And that's it. It just ends. If you read some of his other stories, it becomes clear that he likes disappointing his readers. "Hell Is the Absence of God" is one of the most horrific pieces of fiction I've ever read, not in the sense that it was written poorly, but in the absolutely horrifying picture it paints of the universe. I was so upset after reading that story I wanted to slap the author and ask Amazon to refund my purchase. I don't read his stories anymore.

Shang's wife's last words, translated into English, were "In war, there are no winners, only widows".

Rest in Peace, brother. This video is so insightful and reflects its own memory of you, odd that I would find it in the future

This movie broke me. In the first 5 minutes I was crying, thanks to the brilliant soundtrack. What followed has had me rethinking everything. One of the most brilliant Sci-fi films I've ever seen. I think Kubrick would have been proud of this one.

People are not accustomed to deep thought. Exposure to philosophical concepts is rare. The mind can be continuously developed but it has to be challenged with thought and focus. Humans are still evolving. Some of us are just more developed than others. Thus the advent of the critics who tend to crucify the advanced minds.

The explanation in and of itself is an art. The expression is so riveting that it enlightens you intellectually and psychologically.

Those who cant see a purpose in this movie simply arent ready and may never be ready. When the movie ended I thought, "wtf." Now it hits me. I appluad your video, well done.

Watched it again 7 years later as this was in my top 10 of all time. And still just as amazing today. I think the pacing with the build up is brilliant with huge meaning and depth to it at the end. Absolute masterpiece.

The Block Universe. “According to the block universe theory, the universe is a giant block of all the things that ever happen at any time and at any place. On this view, the past, present and future all exist - and are equally real.”

These new comments are disappointing. People are so terrible at immersing themselves in philosophical media that tackles metaphysics.

"I forgot how good it felt to be held by you" was everything!!!!!

As a someone who is not only sci-fi enjoyer, but also used to study linguistic at university, I was just absolutely amazed by this film! So mind blowing! And I am so glad that you’ve pointed out Space odyssey references, since both films share similar themes - working with a new, advanced tools and technology, circle of life and also to some extent even becoming better human being.

The limits of my language is the limit of my thought, that was the exact thought that i had when i first watched the movie.

I'm going to have to watch this video a few times to digest what was said. Arrival was the most thought-provoking movie I had seen in a long time. I've read the short story twice and have seen the movie 3 times so far. Honestly, I had been rather uninspired and bored by so many films - or frustrated by what I saw as intellectual sleight-of-hand (Inception). But Arrival was so very interesting, especially when you think about the physics discussed in the original story. I had/have been struggling with the death of my beloved dog Atlas. It destroyed me, but at the same time - I knew the end of that story before he was born- as I know the end of my own story, and I would still choose to know and love him for however brief a time it was. I understand Louise's choice. (I know the last word is a bit loaded.) Anyway, glad to see others really thinking about this film. Thanks.

kamay is a Tagalog word for hand and kamot is a Visayan word for hand also. I'm both a Filipino and a Visayan and I'm genuinely flattered to see my language are highlighted even for a second. I'm maybe overreacting forgive me... I'm just really happy the feeling is so weird. Thanks Logos Made Flesh❤

Arrival instantly became one of my favorite films. It is a beautiful, intellectually rich, thought-provoking film. Thanks for this video. I hope this will cause more people to see it. Or watch it again. What a gorgeous film. Amy Adams’ performance is a lesson in great film acting, too. A perfect choice for the role.

I don't wanna give you a big head or anything but your video on no country for old men sent me down the the final leg of the God rabbit-hole. I've been a confirmed Catholic for a year now. Thanks for all you do.

My generation is lucky to still have directors like Nolan and Villeneuve... Producing intellectually and visually entertaining movies!

Sir, your exposition of the movie arrival was nothing less than fascinating and intriguing. I have longed for such a video that would metaphysically, philosophically and spiritually explore the far Edge of the known when it comes to language life and meaning. You're a verbal exposition and visual feast we're very much appreciated by this Explorer!

I loved this film - the first time I saw it and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and so forth. Yes, I've seen it many times and I get something different every time - and every time I love it more! Yes, fully circular. 🤯

You are an incredible creator, you managed to perfectly extract the beauty of this incredible movie and materialize it into words. Thank you.

This is the sort of video that really shows that short video essays can be an incredible form of art and amazingly interesting, thanks so much!

This blew my brain out, I’ve never paid so much attention in class as I did for this video... it makes me want to learn a lot more about languages and philosophy so I can fully understand

this storytelling these perfectly picked shots , beautiful make more videos you have a gift

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Wonderfully compelling content, and crisply done. Your videos help bring other works of art to fruition, making them far more rich and engaging. Thanks for your work!

Thanks for summarizing and amplifying my impressions about the film. I saw it more than a dozen times and I usually recall my memories about the film to contemplate about the time, languages, or cultural patterns. This video represents a real quality.

Oh man, I saw Tenet, then Memento the other night, and Arrival tonight. I think your analysis is spot on! I personally feel like your channel is unfolding like these movies with your diagnosis last year. Truly you can see the future in the past with your videos and I look forward to connecting every person that will listen with your channel, these movies, and how they fit right into the biblical narrative. I think directors have a thing for chiasms for the last few years!

I found your review before watching the movie, after watching the movie I came here again and I had to watch the movie over again... It's my 5th time and you got yourself a new subscriber. I had to rewatch Ex Machina too. You are Amazing! Thank you.

Arrival is based on the Nebula-winning science fiction novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, written in 1998. The novella involves Earth's first communication with heptapods who speak in a cryptic language.

Excellent analysis and great video! I adore this movie and have consumed so much content on reviews, takeaways, and insights, yet you brought so much more synthesis to the table! Thank you :)

This film made me believe in the language of cinema again as a tool for expanding human consciousness versus the distorted, Hollywood cult is has evolved into for the average viewer. Thank you for this breakdown, such a profound & wonderful film. As someone who studied linguistics & linguistic anthropology in Uni I nerdgasmed throughout the entire film #squeal

Arrival Tenet Watchman Episode 8 These have recently blown my mind and all have to do with experiencing time in a non-linear way. Whether time is a circle or a shape with cannot comprehend, all 3 operate under the same assumption and helped me better grasp the idea of "time"

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. Very well done!

Brilliant review! Enlightening and clarifying. Thank you so much Logos!

And God that last quote is so epic. Just broke down man. Again, it's amazing what a second viewing can do. I was likely distracted too much last time. Had to subscribe after that. Beautiful work.

This is such an elaborate interpretation of the movie. Often people do not want to dive into the meaning behind a piece of artwork, because they might be, what they call occupied. But these kind of videos really make me feel good about looking at things that we already know in a non conventional perspective. And I am really glad that I searched for this. Subscribed.

This video gives me so much inspiration to learn more and be able to understand complex philosophical concepts . Truly thankful ❤

This interpretation is so amazing. Thank you for this. The Arrival is my favorite movie in all of my life - your analysis just lays out why I had an unspoken, deep connection with this film that turned into my own similar understanding of this beautiful films language like Banks with the Hepapods advanced language. No other film will ever come close to the ethereal quality that this masterpiece has. Dennis and everything he coordinated is legendary and I know in my heart this will be one of the greatest science fiction cinematic masterpieces of all time. This movie's brilliance will only become more and more impactful over time. And at the heart of it is the alien language you so eloquently analyzed, defined and broke down for all of us viewers. It is the most beautiful and unique aspect of this amazing film. Thank you again for this.

I love these videos and this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Great job!

That was absolutely stunning... I cant tell you how many points of reference I have to what I just saw.. Including the T. S Elliot quote... Thank you so much...

KZfaq has been recommending this video to me for a while now and I skipped passed it many times because I didn't know the channel, and I already knew the movie well. As I've now watched this video, I'm pleasantly surprised. Very well done.

Incredible explanation of the film. The way you delivered your understanding of the film helped me look at it through new metaphorical lenses.

ABSOLUTELY ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!! IT'S A FANTASTIC FILM - Beautiful & FULL of Meaning!!

Great explanation. I really was moved by the way you explained things. Thank you.

The movie has become a quiet part of my life, like a character in a novel becomes part of your memories and is almost like family. I can say the same about 1917. Finally, some visionary film making instead of Spiderman 56.

Thanks for all the effort you put in for this video.

Two things struck me when I saw the film for the first time. 1: The way the heptapods view time is, in a lot of ways, very similar to how God views time. Throughout the Bible, God is shown to view time much more differently compared to us. He outside of time, seeing and knowing our past, present, and future. I'm not sure if circular is the correct term for it in God's case, but there's notable similarities nonetheless. 2: Most importantly, is Louise and her future with her daughter. What hit me the most was that despite all of the tragedy that would come to her family, she still accepted it. She still wanted to live those moments with her daughter till the very end. It was something that she would've never change at all. This is literally my #1 favorite sci-fi film! I'm not sure if I agree with your points about the film, but the video was amazing as usual.

One of the best movies ever, this I think is how we would actually have to learn to communicate when we make first contact.

Very well produced video....major kudos to your team! Thank you, too, for enlightening us about this great film! It is much more meaningful to me now.

That's a fabulous summary and insight into this powerful modern parable. Thank you for the time and effort which has gone into this helpful and thorough analysis. For me it opens much about theology and how it shapes us and how we shape it.

I'm from Venezuela, precisely from Maracay, the place where one of the ships arrived. And I'm learning English, this video made me feel something I cannot describe. Thanks for it.

this is an absolutely brilliant analysis. I loved this movie, and I think it also has to do with the dawn (arrival) of a new higher consciousness in man, as part of our continued evolution and growth

Your videos are so amazing, this one's no exception. Thank you so much. I've been dwelling on these topics a lot lately, and how time is just an illusion created by our limited viewpoint. You offered me more to think about.

This was a fun analysis and observations post. I especially appreciated your notice of her walking pattern changing from linear to circular. It was a fabulous movie with several clever whoah scenes executed. It was a rental for me that i soon collected...gotta watch again and again...

Great video. I watched Arrival over 25 times. Your video helped me appreciate its brilliance more. Your work is the frosting on the gift this film brought to my life. I’m still watching it. Keep up the good work.

Two pieces of a whole. We’ll always have this to thank you for Will never forget you matt

Wow you just made it insanely clear with my previous suspicions about the hidden meaning itself. Good job on this video!!!!

Extraordinary work on this video! Elaborate and plain beautiful. And this is one of my few KZfaq comments ever.

I love this movie and your video helped me understand it a little bit more. To many including myself it's a complex movie, but I find it quite beautiful in every aspect. Thank you for making this.

So glad to see you're back, and doing one of my new fav movies too! But hey have I have a question for you. What do you think of the peculiar way the writer E Michael Jones uses and overuses the term 'logos'? He's gaining something of a cult following, but he uses that word in a way I suspect is idiosyncratic but that he never really defines clearly. Very curious to heard your thoughts, since the word is obviously so important to you.

Arrival is a great film and I saw it a couple of times, but this video is extremely insightful in identifying connections that I missed. Thank you!