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In Reply to: RE: The Arrival has arrived at Comcast pay-play. posted by free.ranger on February 16, 2017 at 21:06:47
Link to synopsis at page bottomcomment: Back in 1968 there was also lots of confusion and dislike with regard to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddysey. A film that asked questions and then failed to answer them...mostly. Yet that film lives on in society's collective sci-fi memory.
This is why I will give the film Arrival another careful viewing just to make sure I get the important plot points and then can decide if I like it or not. Competing with that thought is another, however. And that thought is ;I really don't want to pay to sit through it again.
-Steve
Edits: 02/17/17Follow Ups:
I wanted to add this to my OP, but my ADHD meds ran out. The science themes are focused in 2 fields: space/time/gravity, and comm/language/linguistics.
The relativity stuff we vaguely all get by now, but when incorporated into a movie's theme, it drives us nuts as viewers. Viewing is a linear occupation, so when they bounce around like that, we all lose our minds. Before and now becomes now and later, then we go off into before and later, bypassing now. Driving like that leads to accidents.
I had trouble with the translating efforts. The aliens were using what looked like a logoform type of symbology, like Chinese do. A "letter" is a pictorial representation of a thought, not an arbitrary abstract symbol used within larger symbols representing sounds representing thought. Several layers of abstraction leading to communication of a thought. The effort didn't start with pictorials or illustrations; they went straight for the abstractions, bypassing best chances for establishing common ground, like they were UN translators instead of linguistic scientists. I thought they really screwed this part up, which was the major effort of the movie.
The resulting point did get across -- just how would we go about breaking such a barrier without having someone previously set up for telepathy?
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