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Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

David Kaiser and Patrick McCray

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In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late...

Felipe (17 KP) rated Arrival (2016) in Movies

Dec 7, 2020

Arrival (2016)

2016 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

7.9

(47 Ratings)

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A little hard to follow and it is never revealed who the aliens really are. (0 more)

Excellent speculative movie even if it was somewhat optimistic.

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This movie poses and excellent problem of what it would be like if an advanced alien species visited Earth and what form that would take. I found the design of the aliens and the extent of their technology to be interesting but what I found more fascinating was how they were able to come up with a language that is at one time alien but also somewhat familiar using basic linguistic theory that is common to all languages and yet come up with something completely out of the box. Despite being an excellent film posing complex and thought provoking questions, I found the timeline and the flashbacks to be confusing and the ending of the film posing more questions than answers. The telling of the story is as complex as a tesseract or 4th dimensional hypercube trying to describe itself to a three dimensional cube. There simply is no common frame of reference to begin to understand the multidimensionality of the film.