That movie was 'Arrival'.
To be honest, this movie looked like it was going to be a fizzer to me. But this movie is so deep I think that I need to view it at least another three times to really get it.
I would hate to see how an alien would go with a Facebook account on this f#cked up planet.
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And I like how it was released on the 11th of November, which is Remembrance Day in my part of the world, where we remember the fallen in wars past.
The other film I saw today was Mel Gibson's brilliant movie, 'Hacksaw Ridge' ...and there was plenty of morphine dished out in that movie.
I only went and saw 'Arrival' after reading a post about this film from a website that I respect, called 'The Daily Grail' -
Movie Review: Arrival
Maybe the 'The Daily Grail''s review is referring to the book the movie is based on, which I have not read, and is considered a spoiler alert?
But 'Arrival' is a film worth seeing on many levels, IMO.
Sometimes it's not words though, sometimes it's movement, or dance, or painting, any kind of active imagination process where you can just express, and sometimes it's non-verbal, if you can get it to words, that's great too, but..."
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And if you love comedians and this planet as much as I do, then check out another late great comedian's material, Bill Hicks.
What was the trip of the Alien pods needing a weapon? What was up about the 3,000 year message, next contact? Having mastered Time travel, what could we offer the Tentacles? Went to a Cinemark in Eugene Oregon, damn quiet after movie ended. 87
ReplyDeleteLike I said above, I probably have to see the movie another three times to really get it, but my take was the word "weapon" was a miscommunication between the humans and the aliens.
ReplyDeleteI think it had something to do with what was written in the introduction of Lisa Bank's book (which I'm not sure about and one reason I need to watch the movie again now that I know what will happen...just like Lisa;-).
The irony is the mention of the word "weapon" almost caused the humans to go to war with the aliens, which I doubt the humans would have been able to anyway, as the aliens would have had far superior technology to the humans...and besides the aliens said they were more or less guardians and why they were here and probably were here 3000 years ago, too.
So the heptapods were trying to help bring a fragmented world (our world) together by placing 12 pods around the world in an effort to get us to work together in communicating between ourselves before we blew ourselves and the planet to pieces.
The threat to the planet wasn't from the aliens, it was from our own internal conflicts and miscommunication and projected fears towards one another, not just between nations, but individuals, as well, men/women, black/white, east/west, religions, etc.
In other words the threat to the planet wasn't the monoliths that appeared in the sky , it was the apes running around the planet with their eyes wide shut, that didn't know how to communicate with one another properly still after all of these years of "civilization".
That should be 3000 years into the future in the above comment, even though in the movie the aliens say that they need our help for some unknown reason.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this You Tube for a good wrap up of the movie -
ARRIVAL(2016) Ending Explained -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpIFm4O2YvU