One of the Great Films

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2016)

Tarkovsky's "Mirror" husband-wife dreaming of baby, scene is used when Amy Adams says "do you want to have a baby". Great homage to history of film.
Aliens: "Use your Weapon" in the script is never answered literally. Yet what that means (I won't tell what that is) is acted out. The possible answers are brilliant. We artists can learn from that, pure cinema, pure art. This is not literature. Even past the end of film we the audience have to put together the literal answer to that question, but the meaning has already entered our heart, and thus Art was already committed. That's why it is so engaging. We the audience provide the answer to the scripted words, even though we are shown by the feeling and acting, we aren't sure, so we have to think, engage, and answer the question, as humans.
Critically. I'm not a fan of the maudlin, boring neo-Communist, neo-Marxist "we are all one and have have talk" mundane story line. But Adams creates enough dreamworld to move people beyond those "Marxist Universalist Utopia" story element in the plot to carry the story to both a more profound depth and and arcing height. I think Amy Adams can elevate any script to that of legends.
Amy Adams should compete with Lana Gulevich (Gulag Vorktua 2016) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5768140/ to win an Academy Award, they are both mind blowing in totally carrying us out of where we are to some imaginary space. Hats off to the director Villeneuve allowing Amy to carry it and allowing DP Young to shoot portraits from back 3/4 behind, as it was instrumental in getting us near the minds of the characters, a Circumspection POV, as though we are looking at themselves from the back of their heads, where ideas develop. Congrats on director for allowing F/1.2 plane focus shots even when they drifted off. As a film director/editor, I know it takes to guts fight for those artistic shots, but you reach into those spaces where feelings are in us and thus engage us.
I took three pages of notes in the theater during the screening. Amazing film. Villeneuve, Adams, DP Young, all need to be put on people's short lists.