The smartest movie I've ever seen.

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2016)

Anybody who likes to think will find Arrival spectacular.
As a visual artist, watching Arrival's enactments of visual language was spectacular. The film is itself a brilliant lesson in visual language, expressed through both the plot and the cinematography.
With it's attention to the logical uncertainties of alien interaction and the cast performing their roles excellently, I gladly found Arrival to be an (I must say, pretty much perfectly executed) intelligent, deeply emotionally involved exemplification of the nature of communication, information, elementary and complex human actions... suggesting so much more than what is revealed.
Come for the intelligent scifi, stay for the very real visual explanations and demonstrations of communication and their respective emotional constituents. This movie is smart enough to be a meditation on it's own power.
But don't take my word for it. da dun DUN!