Film Liquet on Arrival

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2018)

After the appearance of 12 extraterrestrial spacecrafts around Earth, the US armed forces recruit linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), in order to research the written language of the aliens. Further on, Louise starts seeing visions of past or future, which one? She does not know and has yet to find out and use it to solve the mystery.
Having a linear structure, the film sometimes decides to move in time, providing interesting effects for the audience to experience, such as minor confusions and peaks of interest throughout, as the language of the aliens becomes more and more interesting to the linguist, the audience is also tempted to find out the answers to many mysterious signs that are not translated into human language. However this kind of storytelling leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
With several turning moments in the films, the whole film becomes a philosophical argument of the concept of time, making it so the viewers aren't left without a point to think about. The film broke the main principle by not showing, but telling us the needed information in order to move the plot forward. Although it is better for the audience to experience it firsthand along with the main characters.