Time is a circle...

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2019)

My first time watching this movie, I was somewhat confused by the montage sequences. The scenes showing the child made little sense, ie. how is this related to the aliens? ---but the background main storyline wasn't really too affected by it. When I went back and saw it again though, it all snapped into focus! The aliens had an almost extra dimensional understanding of time and several mentions were made about language having a profound effect on our world view. When the main character learns the language, she begins to see events and time in a completely different way. For example, it can be said that humans see time as a linear construct; time is a book that we can see only one page at a time. The heptapods taught her to see the entire story all at once. Every scene and all the dialogue pointed to this, but it was obscured by our limited understanding of higher dimensional concepts. Pretty cool way to introduce another way of thinking about cinematic possibilities.