Yes, language is a science too!

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2017)

My perspective on this movie is that it is more humanistic than it is about aliens. Yes, the subject is the aliens coming to the earth and we want to try to configure why they come here. What are their purposes? What can we deal with them? How can they understand us and most importantly, how can we understand them.
But... that's not the focal point here. It is more about humanity. Our values and how can we act when things pressure us. We always fear of the unknown, we defense first before we get to open, we rather fight first than we want to communicate to each other. The different nations that take different course of actions toward the 'alien invasion' really speak to how we live in this world. Most people like the easy way to deal with things but not everyone dares to take the highest roads/risks.
Amy Adams performs her character so divine. I don't think other actress can replace her character here as Dr. Louise Banks. The way she struggles with her health due to brain 'rewiring' and episodic memories that seems to be so real that she tries hard to maintain her ground.
This is the kind of movies that you'll discuss for hours or maybe for years. Everyone has their own interpretation on this. But my interpretation is that the alien come just to give clue that they may need help from human in 3000 years later. Dr. Banks asked "How would you know about the future?" and the Hannah, the child character, is the child that she'll have in the future as she asked to the alien "Who is this child?" and later she knows that she and Ian is the parent to the child. Basically, the alien invasion event is the start of Louise and Ian and their child soon to be dead, Hannah. And she knows this from her communication with the alien. Then at the end of the movie, the aliens around the world just vanished, now they get their message across and understood by one human named Dr. Louise Banks. Later all humanity will understand this, yes, it'll takes just one person that can change the world.
Now, I must say that the writers of this movie, Eric Heisserer and Ted Chiang, are sheer brilliance! This movie is just stunning at its film making, the camera works, the sounds, and everything is just bona fide EXCELLENT to me!