The film Arrival follows linguist Dr. Louise Banks who is enlisted by the army to communicate with aliens who have arrived on Earth in 12 ships. Louise and physicist Ian Donnelly are brought to an alien pod to attempt communication. Louise writes "human" and the aliens respond with a circular symbol. Over time, Louise translates the aliens' written language and discovers it allows seeing across time. When the aliens' message is translated to "use weapons", tensions rise, but Louise learns they meant humans could help them in 3000 years by understanding their language. The film shows Louise preventing war and having visions of the future due to understanding the alien language.

1. ARRIVAL
BY: DENIS VILLENEUVE
November 11, 2016
RUSSIA

2. A SCIENCE FICTION
DARAMA FILM
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BASED ON THE SHORT STORY
“STORY OF YOUR LIFE”

3. CAST OF MOVIE
Amy Adams
As
Dr. Louise
Banks
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Jeremy
Renner
As
Ian Donnelly
Forest
Whitaker
As
Colonel
Weber
Michael
Stahlbarg
As
Agent Halpern
Tzi Ma
As
General
Shang
Julia Scarllett
Dan
As
Hannah
Mark O’Brien
As
Captain
Marks

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The film follows a linguist enlisted by the Army to
discover how to communicate with aliens who are
arrived on the Earth, before tension lead to war.
The Movie start with the voice of Dr. Louise Banks. She
is a linguist and language professor.
One day when Louise is teaching she comes to know
12 aliens ship arrive and positioned themselves around
the world.

5. Colonel Weber visits her office to utilize her
linguistic skills to communicate with the aliens.
She joins them in this regard and there she meets
(Ian Donnelly) a theoretical physicist.
Louise, Ian and several others are brought up
to the top of the pod.
Where’s they can communicate with aliens.
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6. Communicate
Louise attempt to communicate with them
by writing “Human” on a white board.
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7. Response
One of the “creatures” emits a black
cloud that forms a circular symbol.
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8. As the season go on the team
records the symbols produced by
the heptapods and Louise
translate them (Love, Time etc.)

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After that, Louise remove her hazmat
suit so that the aliens can see and trust
her more.
She places her hand on the barrier on
one of the heptapods places its tentacle
by her hand.
The aliens give her the ability to see the
future all of those distressing moments
in her life have not happened yet.

10. Why on Earth?
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When Louise questions the aliens why
they arrive on the earth.
Then the aliens deliver a symbol massage
that is translated to “Use Weapons”.

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After this massage “Use Weapons” the army
and the whole World get scared.
And the army deliver an ultimatum to the aliens
that they have 24 hours to leave or the military
will initiate a strike and destroy their ships.
But Louise tells colonel weber that they need to
make sure the exact meaning of “Use
Weapons”.
In this regard Louise and Ian go again and try
to know the exact meaning of “Use Weapons”
the aliens said that in 3000 thousand year we
need your help. She asked how? they replied if
human understand their language or weapon
then humans can help them whatever they
need.

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During the conversation with Louise and Aliens
military solders placed a C4 bomb in there, as
the bomb is the ready to detonate heptapods
drops Louise and Ian from the vessel as it
explodes.
Louise rushes towards the vessels because
she wants to communicate more and aliens
allow her to go up to the ship.
She comes face to face with heptapods and
realize that the heptapods’ language is meant
to be their tool or rather, a gift to the humans.
By understanding their language they are able
to see in the future. This means that all of
Louise’s memories of Hannah where not flash
back but flash forward.
That why Louise see that 18 months in to the
future Louise and Shang will meet face to face
and will express gratitude for her walk and
efforts to save all the World from war.