The Clues You May Have Missed Leading To Arrival's Temporal Twist
This post contains spoilers for "Arrival."
The mind-boggling twist in Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" is more than just a shift in temporal linearity. In the film's opening scenes, we learn that gifted linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) has lost her child, Hannah, to an unspecified illness. After Louise is brought in as a translator for the alien Heptapods — along with a team of experts, including mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) — a whole new world of linguistic perception begins to unravel. Due to her empathetic attempts to communicate, Louise is gifted with the ability to experience her past, present, and future all at once, shattering the traditional human perception of sequential events. It is revealed that the scenes with Hannah take place after Louise meets the Heptapods, and her husband is none other than Ian, her research partner.
The surprising aspect of the twist is not confined to the emotional ramifications of experiencing the future,...
The mind-boggling twist in Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" is more than just a shift in temporal linearity. In the film's opening scenes, we learn that gifted linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) has lost her child, Hannah, to an unspecified illness. After Louise is brought in as a translator for the alien Heptapods — along with a team of experts, including mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) — a whole new world of linguistic perception begins to unravel. Due to her empathetic attempts to communicate, Louise is gifted with the ability to experience her past, present, and future all at once, shattering the traditional human perception of sequential events. It is revealed that the scenes with Hannah take place after Louise meets the Heptapods, and her husband is none other than Ian, her research partner.
The surprising aspect of the twist is not confined to the emotional ramifications of experiencing the future,...
- 7/27/2024
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
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