"Arrival" with Amy Adams reflects surprisingly believable & resonant interaction with inscrutable Extraterrestrials.

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2017)

"Arrival" directed by Denis Villeneuve presents a most intriguing extraterrestrial first-contact scenario with Amy Adams expertly portraying a gifted linguist, teaming with Jeremy Renner as inquisitive theoretical physicist, attempting to decipher and make sense of maddeningly complex communication rings generated by interstellar traversing aliens. All the while global military forces stand amassed on highest hair-trigger alert-status with Thermonuclear counter-strike at the ready should the inscrutable extraterrestrials exhibit even the slightest sign of belligerence.
**spoiler-Alert** Amy Adams appreciates the fact that her powers of translation must by unerringly-accurate and uncannily-intuitive if there is any chance of averting devastating-conflagration on a global-scope. This uniquely-intriguing film not only showcases meticulous attempts at communication with mysteriously-perplexing (but still quite believable) complex-cosmic Life-forms, but also features heartrending dreamlike scenes of Amy Adams' brief but poignant interactions with her daughter (at different stages of life-cycle and differing ages) feeling akin to poetic vignettes and flashes of insight that always occur just as Adams' character is on the verge of some new revelation with regards to a breakthrough in communicating with the extraterrestrials.
There is also astonishing narrative-progression inherent to this story revealing the cosmic travelers' true intentions along with their uncanny abilities to perceive time & space, encouraging the human viewer to deeply reflect on the fragile + tenuous nature of our own existence, ruminating on how misunderstandings in current Geo-political perspectives of human communication and breakdowns in those information-avenues among nations could easily initiate global calamity and devastation for us all.
The heightened sensitively to 'space & Time' presented in "Arrival' could also prompt viewers to reflect on the priceless-value inherent within each precious moment of 'Life' and the importance of cherishing each & every indelible interaction, no matter how brief. The film "Arrival' is filled with an abundance of imagination, opening our hearts & minds to fascinating possibilities and potentials (which Amy Adams and Director Denis Villeneuve make quite believable).