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 Post subject: Re: Movie: Arrival (Amy Adams)
PostPosted: Sat November 19, 2016 2:51 pm 
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Has LV seen this yet?

Answer me lv

Seeing this in an hour

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This is a Kurt Vonnegut thriller.

can you expound without spoiling anything?

Not really. It explores similar themes to some of his best sci-fi-y stuff, without his signature silliness.

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Good movie. Really enjoyed the pacing and overall story. One lingering question though

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Why did they tell her they need our help in three thousand years without expanding on why?

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So wait...this movie has nothing to do with ABBA?


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they can communicate telepathically. They put that image in her head of her daughter and showing her an explosion is about to happen.


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they can communicate telepathically. They put that image in her head of her daughter and showing her an explosion is about to happen.

But what did any of that have to do with the 3,000 year issue?

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
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they can communicate telepathically. They put that image in her head of her daughter and showing her an explosion is about to happen.

But what did any of that have to do with the 3,000 year issue?



How long have we had written language and translatable between the written languages among our different nationalities across earth?


This film might need a sequel.


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dimejinky99 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
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they can communicate telepathically. They put that image in her head of her daughter and showing her an explosion is about to happen.

But what did any of that have to do with the 3,000 year issue?



How long have we had written language and translatable between the written languages among our different nationalities across earth?


This film might need a sequel.

What I'm saying is

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they said they need our help in 3000 years, but didn't elaborate at all on how or why, they just left that hanging out there, and it really didn't have anything to do with the story


But other than that I really liked the movie

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: Arrival (Amy Adams)
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Biggest question
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you give the spoiled brats of humanity America Russia and China access to time travel what does that mean for causality? It would be never ending ripples and disasters.


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dimejinky99 wrote:
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they can communicate telepathically. They put that image in her head of her daughter and showing her an explosion is about to happen.

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I don't think that's right. They don't communicate telepathically. If you understand their language, you can perceive time the way they do, non-linearly. As she learned more about them, she got more and more snippets of her future. It wasn't until the end when she fully understood their langugage that she understood that what she was seeing was her future. She began to experience time non-linearly.

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My impression is that the aliens needed to come now, despite not needing help until 3000 years from now, is because now is when Amy Adams is alive. And she's the only one smart enough to figure out this language and begin the process of teaching it to humans. I guess the aliens will need human help, but we can only help them if we understand them or understand time in the way they do.

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Yeah I guess that makes sense, thanks. And I agree with what you said to dime about the time issue

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Strat wrote:
Should i see this?

Yeah

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
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Should i see this?

Yeah

Okay.

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 Post subject: Re: Movie: Arrival (Amy Adams)
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I can't stop thinking about this movie

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
I can't stop thinking about this movie


Me too. I really liked it.


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I won't get to see it in the theater because:
- It doesn't come out Argentina, where I live, until February for some goddamn reason
- I will be in the US and Colombia from late December until early March, where it will already have ended its theatrical run by the time I get there.

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I won't get to see it in the theater because:
- It doesn't come out Argentina, where I live, until February for some goddamn reason
- I will be in the US and Colombia from late December until early March, where it will already have ended its theatrical run by the time I get there.

I'll be interested to hear your take on it. Pretty sure it isn't one that LV would like but who knows.

One thing I really enjoyed was how the beginning captured the overwhelming and urgent mood that would inevitably exist if this scenario happened.

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