Review of Arrival:

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2017)

A linguist finds herself alienated and separated from her husband after the death of her daughter in an accident. Haunted by the memories of what has gone before everything starts to change for her after the arrival of twelve cone shaped alien spacecraft on the planet. Shortly afterwards she finds herself reunited with her ex as they are both chosen to act as the translators with the alien race. The aliens play with the former memories she has of her daughter as they start the communication process and the critical point of the film is when they enable her to have a vision of a future conversation she could have with a Chinese general in order to change the future time line. The film ends with the linguist reuniting with her ex through them both hoping for another daughter.
I will add the rider that some of my companions thought that the linguist has never had a daughter and has never been married and that the death of the daughter we see is part of her visions regarding the death of a daughter which she will have in the future. Although this particular interpretation was far too complex for me it just goes to show how confusing some parts of the film actually were.