ARRIVAL (2016) ☾ MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING! 

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Arrival taught me that Governments communicating with each other is much more challenging than the Humans communicating with Aliens

I remember how I felt walking out of the theater the first time I saw this, and that is why I will always watch reactions to it. Probably my favorite movie ever. Denis Villeneuve is a sci-fi wizard.

If after watching Arrival for the first time you find yourself wondering what Louise's temporal experience is like, simply watch the movie again. You now know what the meaning and context of every event in the movie. Your mind is free to recall what will be future events in the film at any point of your re-watch. If you watch it again with someone who hasn't seen it before, you'll observe it's effects play out linearly in their reaction while your mind dances forward and back throughout the scope of the movie.

"Oh, I shouldn't be getting emotional over this!" Of course you should! That's part of what makes it such a great movie! 😁

My wife and I have lost a son and a daughter. I adore this movie. I cant put in words what it says to me and, if i could, I think very few other people could understand my words. The bit you said you are confused about is because youre thinking in our timeline. YOu said it was in the future - but there is no future in heptapod. Its all now.

Arrival is genius technical filmmaking combined with a profound message -- that we are happy because we choose to live life despite its inevitability and predictability

Went into the cinema expecting "just another alien movie". Went out of there questioning the meaning of life and what i would have done in her shoes.

37:09 To explain the ending which is confusing you a little... Louise can now experience any point in her life all at the same time. So at some point in her life she needed to learn Shang's wife's dying words but it doesn't matter _when_ she learns it. She basically "remembered" a future event where she learnt the phrase the same way you and I could remember a phrase we were told in the past. The way she learnt that phrase was Shang simply told her what it was. But from Shang's perspective, he still experiences time the same way you and I do, so he can only access memories from the past, not "memories" from the future. This means he doesn't remember telling Louise his wife's dying words because it hasn't happened on a linear timeline yet. This is why hearing it from Louise was so impactful on him, because it proved the power of the skill which the heptapods taught Louise.

Saw it in theaters. It was an incredible cinematic experience.

This movie is based on the real idea that languages not only use a different vocabulary, but express different underlying things -- for example, the [Inuits] famously have 30 different words for different kinds of snow; French has a lot of words for emotions including twelve different kinds of "love"; German has a lot of words for philosophical ideas; Chinese is indirect and uses a lot of vague symbolic metaphors -- and when someone learns a new language, they not only learn the words but they re-wire their brains to actually perceive new things they couldn't before (such as the different kinds of snow the [Inuits] can see). When people learn German they actually become more philosophical, and when they learn French they actually perceive emotions differently; that's a true scientific phenomenon. The movie's idea is that if an alien language can span time, then can learning the language enable someone to see through time?

Amy Adams is absolutely believable in the role. She is very loveable as Louise

The Hungarian word for inciting opponents to fight and defeating them one by one is szalámitaktika, salami tactics. Also, the bomb scene was great - they had spent so much time trying to understand the Heptapods that when they used a human gesture, pointing at the bomb, Banks and Donnelly didn't get it.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time!! They of course intentionally don't translate the Mandarin, but if you're curious, the dying words of Shang's wife were "In war, there are no winners, only widows."

Arrival is one the best films in the last 30 years, unique, interesting, touching and extremely well made. Love your reaction, especially the "I don't know what to say" at the end. Some here.

Saw it in the theater. When it was over, most of the audience sat there in stunned silence.

Brilliant short story intelligently adapted into a marvelous movie. Villaneuve trusts his audience. The achingly beautiful "Nature of Daylight" captures the reveal of Hannah's fate perfectly.

Ah, I completely missed that Ian says "Screw it. Everybody dies" when he takes off his hazmat. And then the irony (the tragedy?) of the decision he makes at the end. Also, it's perfectly OK to watch this movie in silence and contemplation, Kamilla. In fact I'd say it's encouraged. It's a movie that rewards paying attention and I'm delighted you were doing that rather than "reacting" for a camera and an audience. Bravo. I love this movie, the pacing, the intelligence, the sound, the photography, everything. And when the realisation hit.... wow.

This is one of those movies that is surprisingly better on the second watch, as you see the beginning and ending differently like Louis. It's a genius storytelling. Most movies you watch are usually have the same experience or even less on the second watch, but this movie shows you two different perspectives, your first time watch and second watch are completely different experience.

Best first contact movie ever - I would put Contact second and the Chinese series of the Three-Body Problem third.

As a single dad of a beautiful amazing baby girl that is my life this movie absolutely destroys me!!!I LOVE it though!!! The song “the theory of everything” is SO beautiful!

I'm 76, began watching sci fi in the 50s & am a HUGE movie, sci fi and physics fan. Congrats on one of my fave reactions of yours to imo, the best sci fi film since 2001, Alien & Blade Runner. Maybe the best. (I've watched it maybe 10 times & forced all my friends to as well, lol)❤❤

The only movie makes me cry in first few minutes and at the end every time guaranteed

This is one of my favorite movies ever. I'm glad you could appreciate it. It's completely different to anything else out there.

Their language is based on their existence in non-linear time, and her learning it taught her how to think and see in non-linear time. That's what enabled her to talk to the premier in two times at once. My current high concept scifi favorite movie.

Wife's dying words. "War has no winners, only widows." Hannah spelled the same backward as forward. Like time. One of my favorites sci fi movies of all. And I've been watching them for over 70 years. I loved that "Centane (Kamilla)" got it.

Since I had not seen it, I decided to watch it before seeing your reaction so as not to have spoilers... And I must say that it is a very excellent movie! Thank you Camila. Greetings from Argentina!

This one crushes and utterly destroys me every time. And I love it anyways, probably in my top teen and I'll watch it again sometime. Brutally beautiful...

Great reaction like always, i love this movie its one of my favourites, and its based on "story of your life," a 1998 short story by Ted Chiang, this movie spent a long time in development hell as it was believed to be unfilmable it took years for a production company to take a chance on it, and it took a few more years on top of that to tweak the script until a studio wanted to fund the shoot. When he saw the finished film (when it finally got made), Chiang really enjoyed it, finding it to be both a great adaptation and a great all-round movie. When casting was underway Amy Adams was Denis Villeneuve’s first choice for the role of Louise. Adams reportedly accepted the part within 24 hours of receiving the script. Other fun facts about it a whole language was created for this movie, During pre-production director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer created an entire language for the movie. Along with their creative team, they put together a “logogram bible” containing more than a hundred different linguistic images. Out of these hundred-plus logograms, a total of 71 actually appear in the finished film. Denis Villeneuve made his screenwriter Eric Heisserer work for weeks on what Shang’s wife’s last words would be. So, Heisserer was pretty peeved when he found out that the words he was forced to rewrite over and over again weren’t even subtitled in the final cut. Heisserer would’ve preferred not to leave the words a mystery to English-speaking audiences and is happy to translate the film’s most crucial line of dialogue for anyone who asks: “In war, there are no winners, only widows.” In order to prepare for the role of a linguistics expert in this movie, Amy Adams consulted with an actual linguistic professor named Jessica Coon, who teaches at McGill University. According to Coon, what the movie gets right about language is its interactive nature, although she contests claims that the filmmakers invented a whole new language for the movie. Keep up the amazing work

"In war, there are no winners- only widows." But you just won a subscription, Centane! Fantastic reaction!

My understanding of this story is that time is not linear. There is no past, present, and future. It's all one. The aliens have a language that allows them to perceive the true nature of time, but we humans do not. Louise gains understanding of their language, which she can then use to sort of hop from one moment in her life to another. So at the end when she's speaking to the Chinese general, she's using that ability to gain vital information in the 'future' to use in her 'present' time. That's also why at the end she accepts her fate. She will always have that daughter and her daughter will always die. She cannot choose to change that. What she can choose is whether she accepts that and makes peace with it, or she can choose to not accept it and live a bitter and unhappy life. If time is non linear then you can't change what's going to happen. If we are in the present, then what we do will affect the future. But if there is no present or future? Then nothing we do now will change the future since neither present nor future exist. To simplify it, there is no way Louise could be seeing anything in her future unless IT ALWAYS HAPPENS. If it was possible for Louise to not have that daughter, how could she look in the future and see her daughter?

Hannah was unstoppable in that way that there was always a future where she died but never a future where she never existed. Despite Louise knowing how it ended, she would still have her daughter even if for a short while. All she could do was choosing a different approach when it came to Ian and not tell him, so that they would make the journey together instead of him leaving.

Arrival is one of my absolute favourite stories. They way what happened was revealed - that she was living her life non-linearly from start to finish - is masterful. How she, from learning the alien language, started getting better and better control over when she experienced to be able to get the information she needed to tell General Shang, from future General Shang. It really messed with you. And I love it for that. Such an interesting premise, and so well executed.

Simply put, Louise actually does remember telling Shang his wife's dying words. She just had to access her memories. At the point of them meeting, she has an entire lifetime of memories to sort through, past and future. She's already seen her entire life by that point. It's sort of like when somebody asks you if you remember an event from a long time ago. At first you may not fully remember, but after a few details are given, it starts to jog your memory. Like others have said, Jang hasn't learned the language yet, so all of his memories are linear. So he can only access the past. This is most likely because Louise hasn't published her book yet, which teaches everyone how to read the language. Great reaction BTW! In my opinion, this is one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time

In case anybody is confused about why they the canary in the cage inside the alien ship, they were traditionally used as early warning gas leak detectors in mines. When the canary dropped off its perch, it was time to get the hell out of the mine and get to daylight, because you might be suffocating and not even know it. They brought them here for two purposes: to get warning about potentially dangerous elements in the atmosphere, and to freak us out about the possiblility that the tiny humans were walking into a huge gas chamber. And it worked, without a word being wasted.

My favourite scifi of the last several decades. Superb screen adaptation of an excellent short story.

I remember how I was astonished after I read the original story, and then again got astonishing experience watching this estory on screen.

I love the new mic. This movie hit me in the feels, and it still does even now. Thank you for your heartfelt reaction.

Abbott came to Earth knowing he would die, and gave up his life willingly to ensure that humanity would learn the universal language and be able to help his species at some critical moment in 3,000 years. He's a hero prepared to sacrifice everything for his people.

Time in this universe is non-linear. She's living her life out of order so her future can inform her past. And her past can then inform her future. Free will in that universe is doubtful. One thing that many people complain about is that she had her child knowing her child would die. But everyone having a child makes that decision. They might not know when or how as Louise does, but we have not yet cured mortality. Very few people live past 70 or 80 years old. So if you have a child, you do so knowing that the child will die. As Louise says, it's the journey that matters. That's all she had to offer her child; it's all anyone has.

Louise is my all-time favorite heroine in cinema. Something about her true feminine approach to resolving conflict captivates me

...I had already seen it. I was going to watch the Arrival when I realized that...

The wife's dying words were, In war there are no winners, only widows.

Its perfectly fine to be emotional. She made the best and hardest choice in the world. She chose to have her daughter, knowing she would lose her very young because she thought the experience was worth it through and through.

This movie is amazing. And by the way, I guessed the ending of the movie during Louise and Ian's conversation about "singles", because in the "flashbacks" she has a wedding ring. In fact, if you watch the movie again, they're telling you from the beginning that it's not linear.

What makes the military think they can destroy a spaceship that has control over space/time. I saw the aliens laughing their socks off when they heard the declaration of war.

It was such a beautiful movie. I had to watch it three times to realized that she was seeing the future. Because I was so caught up in the flashbacks or (flash-forwards) even though they said she sees the future I was too caught up in emotions at the time of watching it. Love your reaction

KNEW you'd love this! I almost forget how much i love/how good all time it is until I get refreshers from watching reactors watch it for the first time haha.

It's so cool how they just needed to teach her enough to be able to pull her future knowledge of how to understand their language.

I won't be looking at any of your non-RU-vid content. So, what a fab reaction vid you pulled together here . . as good as any I've seen (and I watch an awful lot of reaction videos). Your emotional reaction matched my own for the movie, not that that matters, and it was simply beautiful to share with you. And thank you for sharing as you have. So many reaction videos are horribly false or desperately cheesy, but yours was all natural and all there . . I bloody loved it! I think most folk, watching the movie for the first time, didn't get it as much as you, and I, did. So glad you enjoyed it.

Generals wife's dying words were" In war, there are no winners, only widows" Great reaction. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

better to have known to never had known meaning she made the right choice to continue on loving her daughter while she could ,,, people take every opportunity with your loved ones to be with them because you never know when it's over , RIP mom I miss you like crazy too

25:53 "If they are not friendly why are they friendly shaped? They are not friendly shaped." The way you said that is so cute. You're so adorable!

"Even got a name for it in Hungary" means : Salami slicing tactics on Wikipedia

Fear and hate can create the greatest monsters

In my world they still ended up together cause she was more tactfull/patient this time. Also I suggest watching the movie Contact with Jodie Foster. It is also a unique sci-fi movie that has in spirit something in common with this movie.

One of those movies where when its over you just kind sit there and think. well.. try to think.

Great react… keep’em coming!!

I think this is the best movie to show how first contact would go. Also, it's funny how everything has subtitles except what the General's dying wife said. I believe in an interview the director revealed it is a poem and the person who recommended which poem was upset it didn't get subtitles.

The movie explores the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language shapes perception and cognition. By beginning the journey of learning their language, Louise's perception of time blurs from the linear and she begins to remember the future. I had to see this in theaters twice before I could make any sense of it. Of course, the real sphincter grabber is that we're still around in 3000 years, and have progressed to the point we are advanced enough to offer them help. But, even more, Abbott stayed at the glass when Costello booked, and blew Louise and Ian out of harm's way, knowing this was his end. He's been remembering this sacrifice his whole life.

Adore this movie. It's the only piece of media I have a tattoo of (heptapod logogram for human). Denis Villeneuve shot up my favorite directors list with this movie. He's so good at what he does.

one of the eeriest lines in cinema... "who is this child ?"

If you haven't seen the movie DO NOT READ THIS COMMENT. I love that on second viewing you realize they basically sum up the entire plot in the first few moments - where Louise in her voiceover says "memory doesn't work the way I thought it did" Perhaps that's why you were confused over the ending - where once she realizes the new way she perceives time, she will have to gather information in the future to use in the present. Hence the flash forward scenes - memories of future events. Kind of makes your head explode, but the rules of the universe established in this film hold up quite well. Even if it does spell the end of "free will".

In the original story Louise's child dies in a rock climbing incident which to me is even more tragic. She knows her child will fall and die but chooses to still let her take up her hobby of climbing even knowing how it will end.

This is one of those amazing films that gets richer and richer the more you watch it. Truly a masterpiece.

Thanks for watching. This is my favorite movie so far.

31:41 😢me too! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I’m loving this

Brought me to tears.

Yeah, pretty amazing. Nice reaction. So much is said in silence as much as the spoken word and I loved watching your expression throughout. Thanks!😎

It's one of THE most beautiful sci-fi movies I have ever seen. It's futuristic, incredibly alien, and yet deeply, DEEPLY human in its story. A sci-fi story that isn't action-packed, dystopian, or "exciting" in any way, but one that is deeply and truly nerdy to its core (and laudably representative of how real scientists do their work) and FLAWLESS in its execution.

this is one of my fav sci fi movies, such beautiful film

one of the best pure scifi film out there. its so phenomenally well done by all involved.

In my opinion Arrival is the best pure scifi movie of this generation.

Hi. Just wanted to pop in the comments and say I’m really enjoying your reactions. Thanks for doing what you do!

"Arrival" is an amazing film. Pure art. "The Arrival" is also an amazing film. Pure art...but for very different reasons...

One of my all-time favorite movies! Fantastic reaction 🔥 🔥🔥

I love this channel. Lots of stoicism and as I've already commented before I wrote a list 5-6 years ago of all the movies that I think everyone should see. This was my sci-fi list: 1. Star Wars (1977), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) 2. I, Robot (2004) 3. Arrival (2016) 4. Interstellar (2014) 5. Blade Runner (1982), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 6. Wall-E (2008) 7. Robocop (1987) 8. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

End of - thanks, Centane, it's been emotional :)

On The Nature Of Daylight By Max Richter which is a piece of music used in this film, was a perfect choice. Anytime that piece of music shows up in a movie or show (as long as the movie or show is worthy of it) it kills me. Love that song, love this movie, loved your reaction.

I am writing this to help out Kamila and this video and this channel with the algorithm 🥰❤️✌️☺️

I loved your reaction to arrival. I am so pleased that you enjoyed it. Did you know that the film was based on a short story by Ted Chiang called Story of your Life. Ted was a former computer scientist who gave that up to write sci-fi short stories. He has published at least two collections of stories. His first collection contains this story and has the same name. I thoroughly recommend both collections. You can read about him on Wikipedia.

as I was writing a fantasy story at the time, the take of this movie on language was so enlightening. I was basing myself in Elvish and Klingon to come up with fictional languages like Orcish, but someone pointed out "Yeah, but those were based on English in turn... how do you speak Orcish *in* Orcish, from an Orc's perspective? Do Orcs even have a word for 'friend' or are they just 'this person I happen to share a moment with'?"

It is a great movie, I loved it when you got the movie "Twist", lol

Love the new hairstyle.

If you enjoyed this you should do Denis' other films - Sicario, Blade Runner 2049 (you'll need to do the first one first) and Dune. He uses the same composer in each :)

Awesome reaction. Thank you.

Such a great movie.

Seeing this film made me laugh at all the dire predictions for _Dune_ as it was being anticipated.

Contact is also great movie. Will make you cry if you watch it.

Fantastic movie

The point of the movie, I think, is that time is non linear. The past, the present and the future all are happening at the same time. And due to our limited understanding, we see time as linear. The alien language is the 'tool' to see or to understand how time really 'works', that it is non linear, because reality is as real as how we perceived it. That's why as Louise starting to understand the alien language, she's also starting to understand how time really works, she's starting to experience the past, the present and the future all at once

Me encanta esta película. Gracias por verla.

Actually, this great film almost didn't turn out this way. Accidentally, some editing was done AND... NOW you see the whole movie and Time as if YOU were a Heptapod! The Moment is always there... and you can always bring it back. "Come back to me"... "I forgot how you feel"...

Centane's got a nice rig setup. Looks dope.

Knows Jeremy Renner, but not Amy Adams or Forrest Whitaker? 🤔 'Best movie I've seen in a while now' - amen! Was fortunate to see this in theaters. Such an amazing brilliant movie. One of the best films of the new millennium. dbl ♥

Anything director Denis Villeneuve makes is a must see.....this is no exception! One of the coolest, intelligent and meaningful alien movie to come along

Woman professor is Amy Adams of Lois Lane - DC universe fame - showing real acting chops!

If you can, find Ted Chiang’s story, “Story of Your Life,” on which this film is based. It is, IMO, the best SF short story of the last 40 years. And if the film made you cry, the story, well…

We go from the past to the future in this movie

If you love Sci Fi, you should definitely watch A.I. staring Haley Joel Osment. That movie was awesome! You will love it!