Arrival is about the message

Rating: 10/10 (22 August 2017)

Not only the character Louise Banks (Amy Adams) has to learn the meaning of a/the message. We, the audience, get a message too. The movie wants the viewer to observe and empathize the fear and hope, ignorance and trust. And to ask yourself which of these feelings would come up in everyone of us and in which way we would and should react and decide. Not only in her current and future situation, but as a human race. There are only a very few movies that made me ask if there is hope. And everything else, like the beautiful pictures, the atmospheric music and sound, possible time paradoxes or realism are absolutely secondary.