Arrival, the review.
Based on the 1998 short story "Story of your life", Dennis Villeneuve's "Arrival" is a scientifically accurate view of how humanity deals with their first alien encounter which follows the main protagonist Louise Banks, (Amy Adams). The film begins with linguist teacher Dr Banks playing with her young daughter Hannah, we see many other scenes of her grow older into a teenager and watch her succumb to cancer. The name Hannah is a palindrome which gives us our first clue of how the infinite loops work and how they are connected to the film as a whole. This all takes place before the main story line is seen. Immediately, we assume this is her past. The film then fast forwards into the present which is depicted that she is living an average life. Until we see that during a class of hers the world is shocked to learn that 12 extra terrestrial ships have landed in random locations across the globe. She is soon enlisted in the U.S army to translate communications. At t...