"So Hannah this is where your story Begins"

Rating: 9/10 (28 March 2017)

A proper grown up Science Fiction film this but i can appreciate it won't be for everyone.
Different to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Fans of 2001 A Space Odyssey might notice a few nods to that film...
The gloved hand making contact with the ship = the group of astronauts touching the monolith on the Moon and the Monolith shaped window separating us from them.
This film headed in a direction not expected with the 'TIME' element but it added to a most unusual & brilliantly grown up SF story.
This species had figured out 'TIME' (to some degree) and were offering it to us by way of a gift after mastering their language this would give us the ability to perceive TIME as they do and would enable us to see the future.
This 'gift' (perhaps a curse to some?) is put to great use by the first to master it LOUISE (the truly awesome Amy Adams) who uses it to change the Chinese General's mind by way of seeing her own future and getting his personal phone number (from him) & telling him the words spoken to him by his wife on the day she dies.
In so doing he calls off any aggressive action and offers everything discovered about them to all the other nations around the World (IT'S A GOOD THOUGHT isn't it?) in so doing the crisis is averted.
Why the 12 ships? it was a plot device but also a nice LITTLE message to all of us around the world, each ship had different piece of information we ALL needed to put together by way of CO-OPERERATING with each other (if ONLY! HUMANS huh!)
The special effects are especially well done & the alien creatures (Abbott & Costello) are cleverly filmed, they do not look anything like those squid types, oh no, these are MAGNIFICENT, IMPRESSIVE & BIG creatures.
My sister and i had a long conversation over this one...
It should create debate among you too (Time, Aliens, What to do when they finally show themselves to the World? CAN'T BE TOO LONG NOW RIGHT? most of us know they're out there & possibly closer than you think, although they have probably known about us since DAY 1)
My sister thought Ian was also the father of Louise's 1st child but I am fairly certain he wasn't, yes they gave her the gift of perceiving time but she did not know him before meeting him for the first time on that helicopter? right?
I found it interesting that Louise was shown a time in her future showing her this unknown 2nd child but then seeing this 2nd daughter? look up to her and ask "why her father had left them?" Louise responds by saying it's because SHE made the wrong decision, implying that he (Ian) her father had left because she did not inform him that she was carrying this rare genetic decease that killed her 1st child & it seemed had been passed to this 2nd one who's fate it was also to be.
That's how i saw it and if so then how very SAD. I guess that's life & people make strange choices at times (me included) we do NOT see Ian when time is flashed forward to Louise being celebrated & introduced to the Chinese General so by this time he has one would assume already left? only some 18 months into the future.
A HERO Woman (she does possibly SAVE the WORLD) in film is still a SCARCE thing but a flawed one is even more rare! and a BOLD way to go and unlike 'Enchanted' another wonderful Amy Adams film there is no real HAPPY EVER AFTER here for her.
"So Hannah this is where your story begins...and despite knowing where it leads i embrace it, but i don't now believe in beginnings & endings"
So is THIS is her way of making this choice of having a 2nd baby? if it is her 2nd child? (TIME TRAVEL huh! perhaps there is no correct or wrong way just a WAY!) although to see one's child eventually suffer somewhere along the time frame is a choice i find difficult to comprehend but is a BOLD way to go? unless I have got it very wrong?
The Whitehouse Spokesperson here say "We have a protocol for a scenario like this" YES i don't doubt it...Time is closing ;)
It is a sombre (some might even say depressing) looking film with the dark colours but this is why it felt so different and the soundtrack only adds to this feeling with what seemed like whale or dolphin sound signatures? a way of communicating.
It has a couple of messages & they're VERY GOOD ONE's i think...
WE NEED TO LEARN TO GET ON WITH EACH OTHER (perhaps before we can get on with any new alien species) sadly for me I don't see this happening any time as we still have a lot to learn, we are but babies still.
We need to TREASURE & REMEMBER THOSE MOMEMENTS IN TIME that bring happiness, joy, enlightenment & even excitement to us all at times in our lives, these might only be glimpsing for some of us (sadly) but HOLD ONTO THEM DEAR (if at all possible) for they are WHAT MAKES US.
It is a Terrific & Thought provoking picture & one i LOVED.
AMY ADAMS knocked it out of the park with her performance here.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 in GOOD HANDS.