![]() You might, as I did, cry not just at the heart of the story but at the miracle of its impossible adaptation. The film is, appropriately, the story translated. It also manages to capture the experience of reading the story, which is nonlinear, written in second person point of view, and which ought to have been unfilmable. ![]() This may be what struck me most about this film, is how brilliantly it captures not just the theme and heart of the story-that communication with aliens will be alien, it will be difficult, and it will fundamentally change us. The breaking heart is mandatory in any case. You’ll be confused but intrigued, then you will suspect, then you will understand, and then your heart will break. If you have not read the story, the movie will strangely and wondrously unfold in much the same way reading the story does. And it will break your heart, as you always knew any adaptation of this story must in order to be successful. If you’ve read the story Arrival is based on, “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, you already know the alien language and you will understand everything about the movie from the first frame, you will know exactly how it’s going to unfold, and you will watch it all anyway, enthralled. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe. ![]()
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