Not for everyone

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2017)

Let me start with: I hope that many, many SF fans love this movie so that we see mind blowing, thought provoking blockbusters like this more often.
But the movie is not for everyone. If you are not familiar with concepts of dimensions, if you cannot bear a movie without action, you won't be a happy consumer. If you appreciate movies for being unique, if you love slow movies which live and breathe with their atmosphere and characters and if you just like SF and science, you are going to love this one.
The next part contains heavy spoilers so don't read on if you have not seen the movie yet. The final reveal is mind blowing in its truest meaning of the word. So get ready, fasten your seat belt and watch this one.
I have read many one star reviews and they all boil down to: I hate the flashbacks, time moves too fast, things do not happen in a correct order. Well, this is the big catch of the movie. That time as we perceive it, is perceived in another way. Time is a concept that we have. In reality, it is a dimension. There are theories that everything is available at this very moment. But we perceive it in a flowing way, because we cannot grasp reality in another way. To understand this concept, let us look a level lower, at a 2D scenario. If there are creatures that live in 2D only, how would they perceive a 3D structure? Imagine they live in the page of a book. They could only understand a body as a flow of 1000 pages. Each page would look like one photo of a CT scan. And only all 1000 pages together would form a 3D structure. We perceive time the same way. Only our 1000 pages of a book are 1000 seconds or 1000 years. But it might very well be a possibility, that everything is present at all times, we just cannot grasp it that way.
In the movie, Louise starts to break this barrier. Time stops being represented by a flow, but Louise can see all events at the same time. She does not need 1000 CT scans to see a body, she can see it right away as a whole. This is the reason why she sees flashbacks of a daughter that does not even exist. Or why the question of having a baby seems to come so early in the relationship. Because there is no "late" or "early" or "future" or "past" for Louise any more.
And if you understand this, you can feel the beauty of this movie with full force. Even though there is so much pain for her, she still accepts the flow of time as we understand it. She still wants to have her daughter even though she knows that she will die early because of disease. And even though she knows that her husband will leave her, she accepts his love in the first place. Because it is not about the destination, it is about the journey.
I hope I could help a little to make you see this movie as I see it. A beautiful masterpiece that makes you a better person in the end.