Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Arrival - How we feel the time

I've watched “Arrival", and just finished reading the screenplay. Yes, it's not new, but I can't miss it having some relation to the world of translators and being a fan of good sci-fi. What I like most about this film is its wonderful integrity – here are so many scenes, details, ideas whirling around one clear concept – time is just one of many dimensions. I have never sensed it like this in other sci-fi movies. But this idea is not just clearly-conveyed – it's served beautifully as a consolation for those whom we have lost once. The film creators seem to pull time out of the cloth of this world giving us a remarkable chance to feel how it may look... All other things, including language-related ones, work on this main idea, for example, that's why the alien's language represented in this movie doesn't have that cause-effect base as English does.       


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