General Shang's wife's dying words: _"In war, there are no winners.. only widows and orphans."_ Beautiful movie.

The birds they usually use is a canary. “Canaries in the coal-mine” is a common phrase, as canaries are sensitive to environmental changes, they were perfect to use for miners to take underground. They outlawed using them in the 90’s and use electronics instead.

Kudos for correctly guessing the purpose of the bird. I’ve seen other reactions to this movie in which the reactors were also unfamiliar with the concept of canaries in coal mines and they thought that the bird was food for the aliens or something stupid like that.

I’d argue it is a love story, just not explicitly a romantic love story. At the core was a parent’s love for their child (selfless as it should be)-what the aliens tapped into, outside time, to communicate with Louise.

Unironically one of the best sci-fi movies in the last couple decades. I wasn't expecting to love this movie as much as I did but it really is exceptional.

I was shook when i finished this movie the first time that she went ahead and had her daughter. Took me a bit to realize, thru the language she already knew her daughter amd and had loved her before she'd conceived her. Of course she wouod have her. But as Dasha said, that takes a lot of bravery

Do you know why Abbot was always late into the meeting room? Because imagine knowing you will die in that room. it would fill you with apprehension and the desire to not go in there, even though you must. This is why Abbot hesitates and is late every time, always showing up after Castello.

Dasha is so smart and on the ball. The ONLY reaction to this movie I've seen that clearly identified the reason for the bird being there. Dasha you're awesome :)

I love what this movie says about the idea of Time....and how understanding time differently is a gift in a way.

I'd love an Arrival of the Elephant's movie. 😂

"Abbot is death process" had me tearing up so badly when I first watched this. It was such an unnecessary death, and it angered me because we all know humanity would do something like that, if we ever made contact with aliens. I never expected the story to have such an emotional impact, but it's one of my favorite sci-fi films. (It also made me want to study to become a linguist or language expert). Louise choosing to live with the choices she knew she would make was so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Lovely reaction, as always, Dasha!

I love this movie for so many reasons. The idea that space travel is possible when you can time travel, is such a great idea. Time travel would make crossing the galaxy possible without the negative side affects incurred with moving faster than light. We could travel to other solar systems and return back without finding the world aged faster than we did. We could travel to anywhere in the galaxy not by actually moving, just by stepping out of time and waiting for the galaxy to move instead. Based on the information in the movie, that is my assumption of how the aliens were able to travel to Earth.

Alright, now I can't stop smiling at the image in my head of the bird wearing a tiny avian hazmat suit. 😄

When I was a kid, my dad took me to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I was about 8 years old and I had already seen Star Wars. I didn’t get it at the time and couldn’t figure out why my dad loved it so much. Because of my age, I couldn’t appreciate the ideas of what the movie was trying to get across. Plus, it didn’t have lasers and stuff. 😄 When i was older, a teenager, I saw it again and it completely blew me away. What struck me so much greater was the process of understanding and trying to figure out communication. I often go back to the tonal “conversation” with the aliens and marvel at it. When I saw this movie in the theaters, I was thinking that my appreciation for this film is what I would have had for Close Encounters if I had been able to understand it. I was especially fascinated by the attempt at tying to understand their language despite having no background in languages from other planets. Where does one even begin? 👍🏼

Seeing your reaction to "Shawshank Redemption" (another favorite), I wondered how the emotional aspect of "Arrival" would affect you. So glad you made your way to reacting to this movie. Some other reactors were confused by the plot twist, but you got it right away. :)

Although this is confusing at first, I love the storyline and the way it unfolds.

Loved your reactions, and was looking forward to this one; and one of my favourite films of all time. The General's wife’s last words are “In war there are no winners, only widows.”

Since you liked this, I hope you do a similar movie from before Arrival, written by famed astronomer Carl Sagan: "Contact," with Jodie Foster. Another one on my all-time fave Sci-Fi list, & a big cut above the typical alien/predator/space wars kind of Sci Fi films.

that mind blowing moment when the movie pulls back the curtain and shows you what its all about

A lot of alien movies are just aggression or silly visuals. I thought it weird that in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (one of the longest movie titles) They communicated through musical notes. In the movie Contact, they communicated with math, I loved that they said 'math is the only universal language" This movie was a fun new idea on communication and it turned out to be not a weapon but a gift, to humanity!

Great reaction as always, Dasha! You're so smart.

The Blu-Ray includes a documentary on communication, existentialism and memory. The director, screenwriter and book author all talk about these subjects that are in the movie.

Hi Dasha!🙂Yes, that was a very unique take on Alien contact. It looks like she chose not to tell her husband until later about their daughter getting sick and dying. She probably thought if he knew the future he might not want to endure the sadness. Great reactions to this rather complex visit with aliens, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

"That does sound like Russia...😓"

For me, i find it very hard to get through this movie without tears

Arrival, Bladerunner 2049, and Inception are all such gut punches that make you question the meaning of life.

3:58 your Canadian is showing lol

Dasha, thank you for reacting to this. This is such a well made, beautiful and heart wrenching movie ♥ The only other movie I have seen that deals so richly with losing a child is The Lovely Bones. Both movies make me tear up every time someone even reacts to the movie . . .

Dasha - “Out-take”: you may be combining two concepts in words (“outlook” and “take”) and making a new meaning fir a word that already has a conventional meaning in English. "Out-takes" are parts of tv shows or movies that were not part of the final product (nor were they ever intended to be) and are, instead, portions/bits of the cast and crew goofing around, misreading their lines, telling jokes in the moment, etc. The best words to substitute for your “out-take”, I think, are “idea”, “notion”, “interpretation”, or simply “take” (and certainly there are others, as well). Each of these substituting words can be used to mean what I think you are trying to convey, but also have subtly different meanings from each other. Of these words, the most understandable would be, I believe, “take”. “Take”, in this instance, is an informally used word, and means “a variation on a theme” - as in, for example: “I like this filmmaker’s *take* on humans encountering outer-space aliens. It’s very unique and original”! If anyone else would like to explain this better than my poor attempt, please do!

Dammit, this film just has to start and I'm in tears. It takes a second watch to truly appreciate the genius. Nice to see a reactor who gets it immediately. Thank you for a great reaction.

I fully agree with Dasha about Denis Villeneuve's movies, saw this when it came out after which I tracked down his other work and couldn't wait for his version of Frank Herbert's Dune to come out when I heard who was doing it, I was a bit worried as I loved David Lynch's version & didn't want a bad copy but I loved it so much. Denis Villeneuve's version is a new masterpiece epic that will going in movie history in the making and I hope he gets the funding & support he deserves to finish the project and make the movie he wants to make. Eagerly Awaiting Next Installment. 😻

Reminds me of Billy Pilgrim from "Slaughter House 5".

I pictured the little birdie wearing a hazmat suit hahha so cute

Thanks for watching this. Arrival bumped out some longstanding classic to attain my all-time "favorite movie - ever" status. (I still adore Contact and 12 Monkeys - but this adopts elements of each and takes it to a whole new level. What Kubrick aspired to do in 2001, Arrival (IMO) effortlessly achieves. Really alien "aliens", seemingly inscrutable ways of viewing the universe - which the director & screenwriter gradually bring the audience to..... It's jaw-dropping in SO many ways.... I adore this film, and I'm glad to see you enjoyed it too - and have a respect for Denis Villeneuve's ....unique.... ability to convey this to the screen. Thanks for sharing this.

9:39 I could picture a canary in a little hazmat suit after you mentioned it. Cute! Great reaction!

i consider him the BEST current director.... watch prisoners and sicario... both great movies he made

Previous commenters nailed the bird thing and it's use in mines. The movie is so cool and different. But also shows how the world would probably react if this were to happen. Thanks for a wonderful reaction Lady Dasha.

I love how what you think are memories, is Louise learning to seeing the future, then we as the audience realise eventually, and that is a nice twist moment the movie plays on its viewers.

Wow, you figured this movie out a lot quicker than I did lol.

Great movie and great reaction 😊😊

One of my all-time favorite movies. So frickin' good. I cry like a baby every time. It's so DIFFERENT from other alien type movies and so intelligent. It's a drama about extra-terrestrial encounter, it tells more about humanity than other species from outer space. And the _mood_ of it is very very eerie and good! I love it.

😺Dasha!!! 😺 Didn't see you did this one! Been trying to get everyone to see since it came out, but when they do see it they all finally agree! OH! Abbott and Costello are a comedy duo from the 1940's or so! "Childishly funny" lol Thank you 😺Dasha!!! 😺

This will mess with your head...but it's so good. You got to love humans, what they don't understand they shoot it, and what makes them think their weapons will have any effect on an alien race that can manipulate time/space.

This is an amazing movie, excellent writing, and directed perfectly. The use of sound in all of Villeneuve's movies is top notch, and this one is no exception. Awesome reaction, Dasha!

One of my favorite movies, even though I had to watch it twice to figure out what you were able to in one viewing, and in a language other than your own! Well done!

I posted this on your community tab, but thought I might as well echo it here. Here are two films I think you'll find particularly enjoyable. _The Twelve Chairs_ (1970) Directed by Mel Brooks it was adapted by him from Ilf and Petrov's classic, Soviet-era, satirical novel. While the novel has been adapted to the screen twenty times, and even as an opera (albeit unfinished) by Shostakovich, I think that Brooks's film is the best English-language version. _Love and Death_ (1975) Written and directed by Woody Allen, it is a parody of Russian literature. Starring Allen and Diane Keaton it is set, like Tolstoy's well-known novel, during the Napoleonic wars, but parodies many other authors as well. It also has a great score, all the music drawn from works by Prokofiev.

Science fiction deals with the improbable. The best science fiction makes the improbable seems probable. Fantasy deals with the impossible. The best fantasy makes you wish it were possible!

I happy you are watching this movie, the filming is beautiful....it was filmed in Quebec province....this really is a beautiful house...

The fact that she knows all this pain and trauma is going to happen and still thought it was all worth it. That's the true human condition

The realization of Louise seeing a future that hasn't yet come to pass & that she still chooses all the same things always hits hard.

I'll watch anything Sci-fi & always enjoy it, but I absolutely love this film above any Sci-fi of recent years! Honestly I was hooked before the Aliens even showed up! - the tone, the cast, the musical score, everything is just perfect and it's great to have an intelligent Sci-fi film that makes you think as you watch it unfold, well worth a repeat viewing or 3! There was a love story in there too!- and a dilemma: having seen the future & knowing Hannah would sadly die was Louise right to still have her?, to tell Ian what she knew after the fact knowing how he'd feel & that he'd leave?- It was something of a debate when I first watched this with friends, but I think already seeing the future, Louise also saw how much joy Hannah brought to their lives & how much they in turn gave to her- she'd already fallen in love with the daughter she hadn't had yet regardless of the outcome, it couldn't have happened any other way

Great reaction!! One of my favorite movies form one of my favorite directors. You can see Villeneuve's progression from Arrival to Blade Runner 2049 to Dune how he got better and better with science fiction. Dune 2 release date is scheduled this year, probably November 3rd. After that is Rendezvous with Rama, another science fiction film. The third (and probably the last) Dune film is at some point after that, he wanted the cast to age a bit.

Actually when I started to learn Russian, I felt my mind kind of change 🤔, in that way, luckily I can understand the movie in a deeper way 😮, great reaction I like it a lot 👏🏼👍🏼 I can recommend LALALAND 😊

This, gravity, interstellar, passenger and the Martian all came out around the same movie time.

I hope you read this: I have seen up to now about 15 reaction videos about Arrival and you are roughly the 16th one. Just want to let you know, you are above average intelligent, you found out little aspects, nobody else said. And this, watching alone, very good! (Many others reacting youtubers watched especially this movie as 2 guys, so it was for them easier to figure everything out in this complicated story, chatting about it)

One of the best movies ever made, period. Just incredible. And your reaction was great, i dont know how you catch everything so well on a first watch. Very cool!

Yet again Dennis and his big boss cinematography skills. Great movie!

You might like to try 'The Darkest Hour' - evil aliens invade Moscow

They used to take canaries down into coal mines to make sure that the air was breathable, as with the expression "canary in a coal mine".

dasha is evolving into her true form. the russian gangster, wearing all black and a big cuban link chain.

I'm with Ian. I hate that Louise chooses to have her daughter anyway, knowing she'll die horribly after just a few short years. Everyone keeps saying how "brave" Louise is, but apparently the kid's feelings don't count.

*Contact* is another great similar Alien movie.. Written by the late *Carl Sagan* an actual astrophysicist of great renown. It's a MUST WATCH movie starring *Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughey* I promise Matthew McConaughey won't make you Ugly Cry this time.. Like he did in *"Interstellar"* tee hee

Great reaction, Dasha! Have you already seen this fantastic, RUSSIAN made S/F Movie: „Attraction”? Also, how about: „The Host” (2013) - Great S/F Movies!

Awesome vid. Love your chain btw

I love how different this movie feels.

That bird was a miniature ostrich! With wings.....

I hate how the military, always act out of fear, in these types of movies. Posturing and acting so tough. Without even thinking, that the technology they're up against. Would be in anyway comparable to our own.

(9:58) Traditionally, they used a _Canary_ bird - because they continually chirp out loud. If the chriping STOPS, then you know you're in danger. Also, they're called _Testicles_ (10:04). The aliens have seven _testicles_ Remember that: _Testicles_ lol

It took awhile for my brain to wrap around this film and how the concept of time is like a finished mosaic that can be viewed and/or experienced in linear and non-linear fashion within a single timeline (unlike the avengers' endgame with multiple timelines). What cooked my noodle is the concept of ensuring a specific end by, i don't want to say manipulating, being aware of the means in which to get there. There are key events within a timeline that produces, in combination, a specific result. Being aware (or in this case, actually seeing them) of these events helped guide her to make sure they happened in order to save humankind and subsequently down the line, save an alien race. But the events are necessarily experienced in chronological order for her. Still makes my brain hurt.

You're wrong, the movie is all about love. The first future memories she has is of her child. Her love for her child traversed time and space and helped her to gain more access to the future.

OMG YES! I've been waiting to watch this one with you! I'm at work but have this open and waiting in a new tab. 😁

That music split my heart in two when I saw this film, and again in the Bill and Frank episode of The Last of Us.

Makes more sense when she says to her baby when she's born "Come back to me" and then when she's dying she says "You came back to me" (or it's the other way around, can't fully remember)

I love your reactions. I really love how emotional you are. It’s really appealing.

The part about the word "kangaroo" actually meaning "I don't understand" is a myth. The Native Australian (the Guugu Yimithirr people) word "gangurru" refers to eastern grey kangaroos.

This is one of the best movies ever made and even today i cry at that ending. I am shocked that the ending didn't hit you. Knowing she is about to lose her child and husband all while Max Ritcher is playing is heartbreaking.

I was waiting for this one for so long!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!! One of the best movies ever, you are a great!!!!!!!!

Another enjoyable reaction! Keep them coming, Dasha, and I'll keep returning!

This was based off a short story from Ted Chiang, who quickly became one of my favorite authors after seeing this. Totally recommend checking him out if you like this kind of story!

I watched this movie as an end-of-the-year treat in a film class in high school, and I loved it despite my mild astroxenophobia (fear of extraterrestrials. The logic behind "remember the future" made so much sense in my opinion, but I do disagree about how using the Heptapods' "written" language would enable one to become psychic. For one thing, language is invented, so the Heptapods would not be able to speak a language without the ability that can only be acquired by learning aforementioned language. Additionally, human languages use complete "shapes" as written language without psychic abilities. Written Mandarin or Japanese, for example, or even Egyptian hieroglyphics. What I'm saying is, people can visualize a shape, or shapes, with out seeing the future. Regardless, it's a great movie. "She's a very dedicated employee, *eh*?" The sound of Dahsa subtly reminding us that she lives in Canada. With the whole language theme, I was kind of hope Dasha might recall some of her experiences learning English, but in any case, this seems like a good video for me to say that I admire how well you speak English, Dasha, and I hope I can some day speak German (my second- well, one-and-a-halphth -language) as well as you speak English- Englisch- Angliyshiy.

I remember the day that the western press reported the Chernobyl disaster. I was in college on my way to school for afternoon classes. I got there and parked and just kept listening to the radio. Didn't go to class that day. I was spooked.

Recently heard 'Break a leg, ...and you'll be in the cast.'

Rewatched 5:30 several times coz I heard Uzbeks from Whittaker. I even dowloaded original screenplay, read it to check and then I remembered full name of Louise Banks

Beautiful movie. The message seems to be “It’s all worth it.”

glad you like Denis Villeneuve movies, they're all beautiful. Prisoners is another good movie by him. 🤠

One of my favorite movies.

Love all your reactions and content, Dasha. and your English just keeps getting better🙂. I hope you continue with the recent Marvel movies as well. Great channel.

If you enjoy Denis Villeneuve's works, you ought to watch "Incendies", one of his earlier movie and his best imo.

So nice to see a some what intellectual sci fi movie. Tired of aliens with an IQ of 2, traveling across the galaxy to eat people. Besides either they have an IQ of 2 or can travel across the galaxy…not both!

When the early explorers started exploring America, they asked a tribe of Indians what the name was of another tribe. They said the other tribe was Comanche. That wasn't their name, that was a description. The word translated to enemy or stranger.

09:45 The bird is what miners used to use 100 years ago to test for lack of air or poisons. If the bird dies you know it's bad

The beginning reminded me of The Sphere 1998 and The Andromeda Strain 1971.

This is my favorite movie that is not part of a franchise. Thank you for reacting to it.

31:24 I understand why Ian would be upset with her. She had a little girl with him knowing the child wouldn’t live. However, if you step back and think about it logically that is what people do everyday. We form relationships with others that we know will end through death or dissolution. We also give birth to children that we know sooner or later will die. The heptapods gave humanity a great gift to see the future. I can only imagine how such an ability would change us.

This is a masterpiece. I can’t wait to watch your reaction.

yessssssssssssssssss !! I recommended this movie multiple times, it either worked or is a coincidence :p either way im here for it, my #2 favorite movie EDIT: Denis Villeneuve is a dear friend of mine, a wonderful soul and arguably one of the best directors of our time.

Даша привет из Белгорода :-)

Can someone explain why Louise didn’t remember having called the general in that future vision, since she must have called the general in order for them to both be in that situation

This movie breaks me every. single. time.

One of the best endings ever