{"id":11613,"date":"2016-12-23T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2016-12-22T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:54:08","slug":"arrival-2016-denis-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11613","title":{"rendered":"Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this right after rewatching <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11318\">Kubo and the Two Strings<\/a><\/em> over Thanksgiving, noticed how they both refer to a person&#8217;s life &#8220;story,&#8221; then realized this was based on a book called <em>Story of Your Life<\/em>.  So the two movies go together nicely is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Adams is a linguist and Jeremy Renner a physicist who are recruited by Forest Whitaker to communicate with the aliens whose giant ships have appeared across the planet.  We see Adams do lots of linguistics but don&#8217;t see Renner doing any physics, and I think Adams&#8217; final language-comprehension-enabled time-reading abilities break some movie paradox laws (she can learn from her future self), but the whole thing is so beautifully done I could care less.  Also interesting that the emotional resonance of world peace is much less than the story of Adams&#8217; own doomed marriage and child.<\/p>\n<p>D. Cairns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dennis Villeneuve makes beautiful images, perhaps tending to exploit shallow focus a little TOO much, but in doing so he uses it in unexpected ways, sometimes throwing the whole subject of the shot into an artful blur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn this movie being great, because now I have to care about Villeneuve&#8217;s <em>Blade Runner<\/em> sequel.  An Advanced Movie, it relies on our knowledge of flashback rules in order to trick us by breaking them.  Waited in my seat until the music credit came up.  I liked the J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson score but I guess I really noticed the bookending Max Richter piece.  This was the academy&#8217;s exact justification for excluding J\u00f3hannsson from award consideration, somewhat unfairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this right after rewatching Kubo and the Two Strings over Thanksgiving, noticed how they both refer to a person&#8217;s life &#8220;story,&#8221; then realized this was based on a book called Story of Your Life. So the two movies go together nicely is what I&#8217;m saying. Amy Adams is a linguist and Jeremy Renner a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,1463,2080,132,1952,1788,267,111],"class_list":["post-11613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-aliens","tag-amy-adams","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-flashback","tag-jeremy-renner","tag-language","tag-time","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11659,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions\/11659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}