How could Louise be able to tell the Chinese General his wife's last words on the phone in the present while he told her that in the future?
In Arrival, as I understood Louise's husband had abandoned her and her daughter. However, I feel like I've missed on the true reason why. We see that he is not
Would the 18 months later conversation between Louise and General Shang in Arrival still be the same after Louise having accessed the information from that conv
The ending of Arrival (2016) seems to me to be an argument for the pro-life movement and I've seen several opinion articles claiming the same thing. For Examp
I didn't understand why exactly the aliens wanted Earth's nations to cooperate in order to receive. It seems the gift was the language which allowed one to se
After the alien spaceships arrived, first they were just waiting to be approached. As they are the ones that came with a mission, it makes sense that they shoul
I've seen Arrival but there are things that are not explained. In the movie, the aliens come from somewhere using the spaceship called 'shell'. Where do they co
SPOILER ALERT: This was probably discussed before but if the Aliens did indeed come to pass on the 'gift' to humans, why did they leave as soo
Almost at the end of the movie when Louise voluntarily goes to the shell and she meets Costello and asks about Abbott..and as a response Costello says tha
At the end of Arrival, Louise has completely understood the "Universal" language. As a result of which, she can view all her life laid out in front of her
After watching Arrival, I read up on it. Many posts online talk about the aliens saying they'll need help in 3,000 years. So I watched it again when Louise talk
In one of the last scenes of Arrival, Louise boards the ship on her own and communicates with the alien Costello simply by speaking English. In the previous sce
In the movie Arrival, Abbott starts tapping on the barrier so Louise will write on it. She tells Ian that she can't do it with both hands, which prompts Abbott
In Arrival, how is a non-zero sum game more "science-y" than a win-win game? A non-zero sum game can be all of win-win, win-lose, and lose-los
In Arrival, how does Louise begin to understand the aliens? There is absolutely no frame of reference or any common vocabulary between the languages. How does L
It's my understanding that the aliens came to our planet to teach us how to understand heptapod, their circular language and method of communi
After the Heptapods give a huge number of circle-letters, Ian has a breakthrough, noting the spacing is even. He gives a number, which if I remember correctly w
Would the 18 months later conversation between Louise and General Shang in Arrival still be the same after Louise having accessed the information from that conv
The credits of Arrival list Frank Gauthier as the film's Horse Wrangler. Why did the film need such a person? I don't remember any horses in the film. Were ther
I do not understand the scene in Arrival in which Ian and Louise are coming back to the spaceship and during the communication with the aliens the charge explod