Arrival Reflection: 'There is no time.' : Non-linear languages/ time

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2017)

We write and speak in sentences, which usually from left to right, is in a literal line. What if languages is non-linear? Languages involve time dimension, in which implies there is space limit when writing. From Arrival's depictions on how aliens, the Heptapods communicate have put the movie far more than just Hollywood aliens-category. It tries to emphasizes from languages, conversations and communications, to a much deeper dimension on non-linear time. Humans and Heptapods experience time differently. Human view time linearly, with past, present and future, while Heptapods view it non-linearly. When the Russians were confused by their Heptapods who send message, 'There is no time.' It literally refers their languages is unbounded by time dimension.
The Heptapods rely on semiotic communication that could draw the whole picture quickly and effectively. Their languages are depicted as in inky circulars, representing that there is no beginning or end. It could further put forward that their dimension does not involve end or beginning, which is non-linear. They experience past and future all at once.
'What do they want? Where are they from?' are the questions that the 12 countries trying to unravel, so as Lousie and Ian. Throughout the process of teaching the Heptapods, Abbott and Costello, human languages, Louise has eventually delve herself into the inky circular languages, which she even dream in heptapods' way. In a scene when Louise and Ian went back to the dome, to make clear what does the Heptapods wrote 'Offer weapons.' literally mean, as Louise stressed on the difference between weapons and tools. One of the Heptapod offers inky fog to Louise, however, she first expressed she couldn't handle with only two hands as the ink circulars system is far more complicated from that she used. But then, she closed her eyes, conveying her thoughts to the inky fog, meaningful inky circular formed.
'If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?' Louise asked Ian. Through changing the narrow perception towards time, Louise could see the world as the Heptapods do, in non-linear time dimension, without past, present and future. At the beginning of the movie Louise's daughter Hannah infected with life-threatening disease. At first, it seems to be Louise's flashback. But then, it turns out to be neither flashback or flash-forward. Near the ending, when Louise tells her daughter, Hannah, that her name is palindrome, she is explaining to the audience: these just simply exist free from time dimension. 'I used to think this was the beginning of your story' as Louise narrated near the ending. There is no beginning or ending. Live in the moment, unbound from time, past or future and make choices.