Take 1: Alien monoliths appear, so a troubled linguist is asked to communicate with ET before the generals go to war. Arrivalplays like a sci-fi gloss on tolerance, but it’s really the study of premonitory knowledge; can a person with the knowledge of the future accept it?
Take 2: Arrival weaves an achronological story to let Amy Adams use sign language with aliens that want, very badly, to send the most important group text message ever.
–April 30, 2024
