One of the fresh, best and intelligent alien & sci-fi movie out there {criti-cally reviews}

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2020)

My Expectation
I had already heard a lot about this movie from my brother, Vishesh, as well as heard the huge amount of Oscars Nominations it had gotten. So I was already on board to watch it and excited to. But I had no idea how much more its going to be about. I was technically under the impressions it will be sci-fi action movie but it turned out to be something similar to Interstellar. Intelligent Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi and Drama.
Prior to approaching this film, a word of warning that it is what many like to call a "thinking person's sci-fi". If you're going to watch this, I beg that you dedicate your utmost attention to it, as it is truly one rewarding experience, one of the smartest, most well-constructed science fiction marvels of recent years. 'Arrival' is Villeneuve's magnum opus.
Based on the "The Story Of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

My Review
Denis Villeneuve blew up the cinematography experience with this movie. I didn't have words left to explain what happened. Only someone like Denis can create the thrill, suspense and tension with the camera, music and lighting, without even showing the actual aliens for as long as the first half of the movie.
The suspense and the tension created was probably one of the best part of the movie. Although based on a short story, the story wasn't anything long or complicated, but rather quite short and simple. Extending it, and that to beautifully for the screen the way he did requires a lot of talent. There is minimal use of computer generated images, and main focus on story, characters, acting and thrilling scenes. And that's the highlight of this movie. How to show aliens and their impact without showing them!
In Arrival there is no action, no explosions, just some amazing acting performances combined with good directing, editing and cinematography. There was not a single moment I felt bored.
The slow pacing of this film worked perfectly it helped to build up the slow burning suspense and gave the characters more time to be developed better. The special effects in this film are also fantastic mainly because they are used sparingly as it is clear that the focus is more on the characters. Denis Villeneuve did such an amazing job directing this film he really sucked you into the situation and made it seem more life like.
This film asks a lot of questions about humanity and how it interacts and these questions are incredibly intriguing and thought provoking it forces the audience to think on real life and accurate the events of this film are to real life. The whole mystery of why the aliens are here is done perfectly you're more that likely to change your mind at least once and when a mystery like that is built up for so long it's hard to make the eventual discovery satisfying but in this case it was, the eventual reveal makes you look at this film in an entirely different way, the film also doesn't feel the need to answer every question it asks leaving certain things ambiguous that allows the viewer to think on their own answers.
The acting by all the actors is simply mind-blowing and very natural and realistic acting. Overall, I'd recommend this movie to everyone as it is definitely once a watch and on a completely different theme in respect to aliens with a fresh and realistic story.
How It Impacted Me
Well first of all, I was deeply intrigued by the fact that language is what makes our reality what it is right now. The fact that a language defines how a person might think even! And the impact our language can have. Like we currently don't even have words to describe certain emotions or feelings we feel right now in English. And because we cannot define it, we cannot identify them when we do feel properly. If our language had words for it, we would be talking about those feelings and maybe addressing them too. Similarly the concept that the language can be non linear and can change our perspective of time being linear also. The concept is very deep and thought provoking and I just was really amazed by it.