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(Early Access) Let's watch Arrival for the FIRST time (Patreon)

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2025-04-26 11:28:33
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2026-06

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Couple reacts to Arrival for the FIRST time

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Comments

Timothy

"Denis volville" lol. It took me a couple of tries to say his name right lol. His name is pretty much: "Deni Villnouve" but it's spelled Denis Villeneuve.

u_mike

So glad you both liked it! The importance of communication is definitely a big theme in this, another message to me is the idea that a short life still has purpose and meaning. As I interpret it Louise could have chosen not to have a child but she thought her daughter should have a chance to see the world and add to it, as she says at the lake scene where she mentions all the things Hannah shares with the world. And the scene at the end where she asks Ian if he would change things is, to me, kind of her way of asking his permission, even though he ends up disagreeing with her over it and leaving her. But she also knows that so again I think the point is that the relationship was still worth having even if it doesn't last. And Jen is absolutely right that you need to see it at least twice, once you know the twist it recontextualizes a lot of the earlier scenes.

Povenmire

Denis Villeneuve also did a movie called Prisoners with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Which I highly recommend

Timothy

Definitely where Hugh gives his best performance imo.

Donovan Gray

Are you guys going to react to invincible season 3?

Josh Lugo

the fourth kind? maybe....

Kabnoot

I watched it after i saw your comment. I am now scared to have children.

Andrew Lam

I think the original story the movie adapts tries to make a point about free will. Can you really have free will if you don't know the future? In the story, it tries to argue that because the main character is equipped with knowledge of the future, when she makes the decision to still have the child, she's truly making that decision of her own free will.

Josh smith

The last of us season 2 reaction when???

Hello there

Long time follower of your channel. Arrival is my personal favorite film of all time. Beyond communication and linguistics, the main theme of the movie deals with predestination and the human will. Specifically, how should we act if we know something horrible will happen in the future? Louise (Amy Adams) finds out that her daughter Hannah will die of a genetic illness in the future, yet she chose in spite of that knowledge to conceive her anyway. As a Christian, you're probably familiar with the Calvinist vs. Arminian theological debate in regard to predestination. Just how firmly and how detailed has the future been predetermined? Does God only know and/or control the broad progression of history, or does he also micromanage every minute detail? (Butterfly effect, etc.) Does God choose specific people to save and others to doom? The movie is based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella "Story of Your Life" (it's a quick read which I highly recommend). The novella sets up its world such that the future, every minute detail of it, is absolutely fixed. It has it so that everyone who knows the future will have no choice but to follow it; that it is even their life goal now to act exactly as they see themselves do in the future (part of it also is that "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it"). As a physics enthusiast, I see reality operating much like this. The mechanism of Christopher Nolan's Tenet also works this way. The writer of the film Arrival, Eric Heisserer, is more "rebellious" (the word he used in an interview). He makes the film more ambiguous as to whether Louise could have changed the future, now that she has the knowledge about her future daughter's death. Knowing the future, Louise willingly chooses to conceive and raise Hannah anyway. "Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it, and I welcome every moment of it." (This makes it probably one of the most pro-life films out there.) Ian (Jeremy Renner), however, after Louise told him that their daughter will die, reacted in the opposite way, saying that she should've have had her, and he left his wife because of this.