Arrival (2016)
美國 · Denis Villeneuve
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Denis Villeneuve's science-fiction drama in which a linguist is recruited to communicate with aliens whose ships appear over Earth. It reframes first contact as a problem of language rather than warfare.
The craft in Arrival are twelve monolithic 'shells'—smooth, half-lens forms that hang motionless above a dozen sites worldwide. They fire nothing and demand nothing; they simply wait to be understood. Villeneuve pointedly skips the dogfights of typical invasion cinema, letting the seven-limbed visitors—'heptapods'—converse through circular, ink-ring logograms. Adapted from Ted Chiang's novella 'Story of Your Life,'[1] the film asks how we might comprehend a truly alien mind rather than how to defeat it. That humane premise makes it one of the most thoughtful first-contact films of its era.
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References
- 1.Story of Your Life (收於 Starlight 2 選集) — Tor Books · 1998Book
- 2.Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf — MIT Press · 1956Book
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