The General’s wife’s dying words translate to: “In war, there are no winners, only widows”😢

@maximus-6788

3 ай бұрын

and orphans

@maximus-6788

3 ай бұрын

something in a a war there is no heroes only widows and orphans

@HiIeric117

Ай бұрын

It's actually closer to "War doesn't make heroes, it only leaves orphans and widows."

@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine

27 күн бұрын

Also Marines* like the humble cameraman, we also survive cataclysmic events.

I love watching reactors’ jaws drop when they finally connect the dots and realize what is happening… and then get the same flood of emotions Louise shows us. This is such a great movie, because it succeeds in making us *feel*, and ask ourselves questions about Life, and our choices in Life.

@ohgeez4354

4 ай бұрын

I hate myself for not giving this movie a chance at theaters. I saw it at home years ago. I thought it was a Sci-Fi alien flick and I put it together right when the creatures told her that to use the weapon and I figured out what was happening and I remember just flood of tears and I absolutely contacted everybody. I know who are movie fanatics at 3:00 in the morning telling them this movie was amazing and now I'm a dad and I have a daughter and this movie hits way harder now

@RocketSurgn_

4 ай бұрын

@@ohgeez4354I’d say it’s not really much blame for not expecting such an absolutely unique and nuanced version of aliens showing up. It’s really a brilliant movie and story, and one that at least for me felt like an entirely different and just as effecting of an experience seeing it again knowing the “twist”.

@4thlinemaniac356

4 ай бұрын

​@@RocketSurgn_They have always been here controlling Us @ Mauro Biglino & the 5Th kind channels before @ Beyond mystique War Correspondant video @ Rumble @ Jenny moonstone channel year of the Dragon.

@frankenstein3526

4 ай бұрын

Following up to add that this movie shows us what the best sci-fi is intended to do - which is to use a world that does not exist to let us see ourselves and our world that DOES exist in a different light, letting us examine ourselves in a different way…

@4thlinemaniac356

4 ай бұрын

@@frankenstein3526 @mauro Biglino & the 5Th kind channels @ Beyond Mystique @ Rumble War Correspondant video.

Both of my children passed away when they were infants. I dont know how to express how that feels, but i feel like this movie comes closest to saying it for me (and my wife), which is why i absolutely love this movie.

@SnaFubar_24

4 ай бұрын

So sorry for your loss. I feel the same way about this movie which was released little over a yr after I lost my only grandchild without ever getting to hold her...

@4thlinemaniac356

4 ай бұрын

Lost All five of my children. It helps to understand the meaning and the real truth @An Introduction To Thinking And Destiny by Harold Percival @ the word foundation channel About Transmigration,Reincarnation,And the Metempsychosis. More @ Forum Borealis channel @Beyond the Gates of Death video.@William Donahue channel video #1004 The Man On the Bench Bill meets his higher future universal Self before #514.

@gsbealer

14 күн бұрын

I am so sorry! 😢

I also think that one of the other deeply sad parts is not only Louise knowing about the fate of her child, but that Abbot also knows his own fate as he "offers the weapon" and saves her and Ian's life.

@seanmcmurphy4744

4 ай бұрын

Great point. I read the short story this movie was based on, Ted Chiang's _Story of your life_ , and it's even more wonderful and beautiful than the movie. My understanding of it is that learning the heptapods' language not only enables you to see the future, it transforms you psychologically. You lose the desire to change the future, you are able to accept and find joy in everything that will happen, the bitter and the sweet. The heptapods' culture is based on this.

@petersvillage7447

17 күн бұрын

@@seanmcmurphy4744 I always assumed that as an idea it may have sprung from Vonnegut's Tralfamadoreans with their non-linear perception of time, though I guess it could as likely arise directly from the ideas of predestination that Chiang is exploring. He also wrote a very short story, the name of which I can't remember, about a 'game' in which a box has a button on it that you can press whenever you want - but the box contains machinery that can predict the immediate future and therefore knows when you're about to press the button and causes it to light up a moment before you do. But this means that when you go to press the button, you're being told what your future actions are going to be... and this raises the question, when the button lights up, does that mean you no longer have a choice about whether you press the button or not? Especially as it would be able to predict you changing your mind, and *not* light the button up - it ONLY lights up when you're definitely about to press it. Obviously this is the idea from Arrival presented in miniature...

@seanmcmurphy4744

15 күн бұрын

@@petersvillage7447 Great points! Yeah, the Tralfamadorians just accepted what was going to happen.

@seanmcmurphy4744

15 күн бұрын

@@petersvillage7447 I was kind of disappointed that the movie stuck in that mediocre subplot of Louise using the information from the future about Gen. Shang to prevent the war. The book didn't have that. That's the paradox of precognition: if you can see the future, and have free will to change it, then it's not the future. If I understand Chiang's story, once you learn the language, you lose the psychological ability to change the future; like the Tralfamadorians you just accept with serenity the loss of free will

@petersvillage7447

15 күн бұрын

@@seanmcmurphy4744 I think that's definitely the paradox that interests him, in a sense he's dealing with the same concepts that you find in time travel stories - and it feels to me like his questions are more significant than the answers he proposes. It's always possible that this idea of serene acceptance is an attempt at understanding the condition that only a mind with a linear perception of time would propose, of course. I think the important thing that Chiang presents, and which is underlined in that story I mention, is that your choices remain your choices, even when you're 'told' (or already know) what they're going to be. In theory Louise could make any alternative choice she wishes, and I think we have to ask why she makes the ones that she 'remembers' from the future. Is it that she just surrenders to what she knows she's going to choose already (in which case, is it really a choice?) or is it rather that she still makes choices in the moment regardless of what she knows the consequences to be. The most profound example is obvious, and we can ask why she choose to have that child. One obvious answer is that she might feel that the gift of her daughter's existence was too great to lose from her life - though that opens up questions about the possible selfishness of producing a doomed child. She might equally have simply felt that she had no right to choose that a person didn't have a right to exist, however briefly, just because of the impact on HER. Though as others have said, everybody who ever loved anybody has taken the risk of losing them - and many will pay the price, often sooner than they expect. Perhaps it's simply that this is the inevitability of life, and a knowledge of the future helps you cope not with the making of decisions, but with events that seem inevitable once they have played out. It reminds me of two things - one is a buddhist parable about a woman who has lost her child and, when she accepts that, is told that every life is a circle - and they are all of different sizes, running different distances... but all are circles, and therefore *complete*. When a life ends it's not broken,. it's completed - what it was always going to be, no matter that you imagined differently. It seems to me that this way of accepting death, even of the young, has some obvious parallels to Chiang's story. The other thing it reminds me of is simply the experience of rewatching a film, including Arrival. If it's a film that engages us, every important choice made by the heroine matters, has emotional significance to us - regardless of the fact that we've watched the film before. In some cases, certain choices might become MORE significant, more emotional, because we know what the choice is going to be and what the outcome will be. But watching a film for the fiftieth time we haven't lost any sense that the characters in that story are making a choice - even though we know what their fate is. We have the advantage of knowing the future, and we know that it's unavoidable - but we never lose the sense that characters are making choices not simply being manipulated by a higher force (even though, as characters in fiction, they literally *are*). Perhaps Chiang is simply addressing the fact that when we reach the future and can look back, all of our choices have become fixed and unchangeable - and it's important to be able to accept them, just to be able to have lived one's life rather than constantly regretting it - especially when there are more choices ahead of us.

The canary was there as a check. If the air got dangerous the canary would feel the effect long before it would get dangerous for humans. Back in the day miners used canaries down in mines so they would know if any dangerous gases appeared.

My favorite movie! Knowing her child (who hadn't even been born yet) would die an early, tragic death. Knowing her husband would leave her because she chose to have a child doomed to a short life - and didn't tell him. It's such a powerful message about bravery and love, about not shielding oneself from heartbreak because love is worth the pain. It hits me directly in the feels, too.

@philreichenbach2413

4 ай бұрын

I have a child, and I know that he will die. Maybe tonight, maybe not for another 50 years, but sooner or later he will die. No matter when it happens, I will cherish every minute of every die I had with him. Every parent faces this same situation, although many don't ever think about it. Every person who loves anyone else faces this situation.

@Skirne

4 ай бұрын

@@philreichenbach2413 Very true. But I do think there's a difference in knowing this in the abstract and having certain knowledge that not only will your child die, but knowing the day and the cause. Hannah appeared to die during her early teens. That's *young*.

@sparksdrinker5650

4 ай бұрын

brave? yes, but also maybe a little selfish

@Skirne

4 ай бұрын

@@sparksdrinker5650 True. That's a really good point.

@RocketSurgn_

4 ай бұрын

@@sparksdrinker5650I understand thinking that, but personally totally disagree. The beauty of the life Louise describes, the daughter’s unstoppable drive etc… that is a life that has value both to the daughter living it and for the effect she has on the world around her even if it is cut short. Especially with the perspective untethered to linear time and seeing her daughter’s life as a whole, for all its bright and sad points, vs being stuck focused on the tragedy of the end like we inevitably do when it’s always the most recent memory of someone we’ve lost. It’s a chance to understand the value of the time she does have and put everything she can into making it the best life possible with the time given.

As someone with a great love for all language, it's refreshing to see a movie with a linguist as a protagonist. Especially one as excellent as Arrival.

@AlanCanon2222

4 ай бұрын

Technical advisers are the greatest, aren't they? In science fiction, especially, where accuracy is so often stretched to accommodate story.

6:18 “Language… is the first _weapon…”_ The clues were there from the start.

@Steelburgh

4 ай бұрын

Oh nice! I have watched this movie many times and never made that connection!!

Theres something incredibly sad of remembering the future and the loneliness and being able to experience your first embrace, "i forgot how good it felt to be held by you" the first time they hugged hurts me everytime

One of the best movies of the last decade. Made me cry in the first 5 minutes and the last 15. There's very few movies like it.

@LippsReacts

4 ай бұрын

It was a great experience. I am so happy to finally share this one i still think about it a lot

@SnaFubar_24

4 ай бұрын

@@LippsReacts Ty so much for sharing your reaction with us!

The significance/joke of Ian nicknaming the Heptapods "Abbott and Costello" is "missed" by many reviewers. Because it was Before Their Time [OK, Me-Boomer ;)] : In the 1950s, the comedy team of A&C did a stand-up routine on Baseball, called "Who's On First/What's on Second". A classic satire of miscommunication/misunderstanding. :)

I can watch this movie everyday and never get tired or bored, in fact I cry everytime. This is a masterpiece, Dennis Villeneuve is a genius and Amy Adams such an incredible actress. The music, the story-telling, the script, everything is oustanding.

'I used to think this was the beginning of your story.' This is a great way to start this movie. Gives away a key idea right away and no one sees it until they rewatch the movie. The bird is there for safety. Before modern technology, miners would take a canary with them into the mine. If there was a buildup of dangerous gasses the bird would become stressed or die and the miners would know to get out of the mine.

@elbruces

4 ай бұрын

And although they had modern technology, they wouldn't know what potential toxins to test for, so any measuring devices (carbon monoxide, etc) might not help. But it's safe to assume that as long as the bird can breathe, humans probably can too, so they used that.

@RocketSurgn_

4 ай бұрын

@@elbrucesIt’s also a smart choice for communicating immediately a sense of tension and uncertainty about the environment in a way that sensors and readouts just can’t. A lot of smart filmmaking choices were made in ways that are very internally plausible.

This movie was heavy, great reaction. I loved that neither Louise or the heptapods lost hope.

You reacted exactly how all of us including every other reactor. I love this film…it breaks me every time. Thanks ❤

@RocketSurgn_

4 ай бұрын

It’s brought tears every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve lost count of how many times that is.

Absolutely ♥ every second of this movie! Def one of the best movies of the last 20 years!

There are not many movies that bring you to tears in the first 5 minutes. Love this movie.

I came across this movie a few years ago, when I was severely depressed, and consumed with suicidal ideation. I started watching it, and I watched it everyday, for almost 2 years. It helped me get through this very severe time in my life. It is such an epically wonderful film, and I loved watching your reaction to it. You need to watch it several more times, to pick up on all the tiny things. ❤

@Hylebos75

3 ай бұрын

Big hugs

@rngod2121

3 ай бұрын

@@Hylebos75 💞

That orchestral theme is called "On the Nature of Daylight," and it's been used in like 10 movies, but never so much as here. Or so well. "Abbot and Costello" fits, because most of their comedy routines revolved around linguistic misunderstandings. At first watch, you kind of assume that the Chinese General is some kind of bad guy, but on a re-watch, you realize that when he thought the aliens were offering a super-weapon that could destroy all the other nations, his immediate reaction was "y'all can GTFO our planet for trying to pit humans against each other or else we're fighting YOU." Which you have to respect. He was a pretty decent guy all along.

@RocketSurgn_

4 ай бұрын

I agree about the Chinese General, and actually think everyone including Colonel and even the CIA representative are shown as genuinely good people trying to do what they can with the limited information and understanding to deal with an absolutely unprecedented event. Do I think the CIA guy was right most of the time? No. And someone like that absolutely shouldn’t be in overall command, and he wasn’t. But it was the right thing for someone to be the dissenting voice of “what if”. He does even have constructive comments about it being the right move to contact the other countries if they can, just not knowing how in the crisis. It’s a very (to me, plausible/realistic) optimistic view of how such a hugely important moment in human history could go, full of competent people trying to work together as much as they feel they can. Okay, except maybe the idiot soldiers trying who planted the bomb, and even they are at least a very real reaction to such a huge unknown. And Russian government, but I mean, events of the last few years regarding their decision making…

@mmmcomfy

4 ай бұрын

It's as if they all have a way of perceiving and responding to the situation based on the "language" (or culture) they're immersed in - even the bombers "watching too much TV". I'm not convinced that lets anyone off the hook though. That makes for a good movie narrative, but I'm pretty sure linguistic determinism is a discredited theory, I could be wrong. @@RocketSurgn_

One of my favorite sci-fi movies, so visually hypnotic and intense. Wonderful performance by Amy Adams. I also love science fiction as a genre because it seems to me that it explores complex scenarios and difficult moral dilemmas like no other. Great work by one of my favorite reactors, as usual.

Absolutly brilliant film. One of my all-time favorites. The title is talking not just about the Arrival of the aliens, but the relationship with Ian and the child Hannah, as well. Since you love space films... you will LOOVE these films: "GRAVITY" (Starring Sandra Bullock and Geoger Clooney)... I think this one is up there, and perhaps even better than "INTERSTELLAR"... Another great film, based on a true story is "HIDDEN FIGURES" (Starring Taraji Henson, Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer, and Kevin Costner) A fascinating look behind the scenes at the work to get a man in space. It packs an emotional wallop. A couple of other brilliant, but not space-based films: "PLEASANTVILLE" and "STRANGER THAN FICTION" (Both are magical films with great stories, acting, and cinematography... Both are incredible hidden gems you'll never forget!... New subscriber! Looking forward to more! Cheers!

One thing I love that speaks volumes about the heptapods nature is that Abbot came knowing he would die. He sacrificed himself in order to get this knowledge to the humans.

@themask8221

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. I like to think Costello, too, knew in advance his friend dies in this mission. But, as Louise herself said, despite knowing the journey and where it leads, Costello too chose to still embrace it, and welcome every moment of it, for the greater good of humanity and of the heptapod race.

hits me every time. it is the best kind of storytelling. it makes you reflect on your own life and reminds you that you cant have the good moments without the bad, at least that is what it does to me. embrace your life!!!

“I don’t understand either, but I want to cry”. Sounds like you understand :)

All we ever have is the journey. It always ends for all of us. And the time we have together is always limited. Louise made the right choice; to embrace the journey. To live what can be lived.

"I'm gunna need 30,000 years to recover from that" yep still not over this movie

Yep. Quite the heartbreaking mind F. Thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. Thank you.

The music in this movie hits hard. It's called "on the nature of daylight" and it is an amazing piece.

Knowing the movie I liked watching you step in it. When you said "it looks like it's defying gravity" and then they enter the ship by walking up the wall, yup. Another time you said "I'm losing track in time and space", yup. You intuitively hit the nail on the head with out understanding how right you were. If you decide to watch "Her", don't with out watching "Lost In Translation" first. Most people don't know how the 2 are connected.

One of the main reasons why I love this movie is how it's a movie about language that plays with cinema language itself. It uses the scenes with the daughter in the same way we're used to interpret flashbacks. Until it reveals they are not flashbacks at all. That elevates it even further. That's deep understanding of what make scifi, stories and movies great.

One of my favorite movies! Arrival is certainly a movie which can be watched over and over again, and you get more out of it with each watching. In my opinion, Amy Adams gives an Oscar worthy performance. Denis Villeneuve does a masterful job as Director. What a lovely reaction! Subscribed.

Definitely a contender for my favorite sci-fi movie! I’m really glad you enjoyed it.

I think you really hit the nail on the head about the emotions of this movie. The score and the editing and the acting do such a spectacular job that you can be crying your eyes out when the movie hasn't even said what's going on yet. What an accomplishment!!

I watched arrival on a flight into the us to kill time. I knew nothing about this movie, and that is the perfect way to watch this masterpiece. It’s the first true science fiction that’s worth watching since 2001

And that, Lipps, is Denis Villeneuve.

22:44 "There is no time. Many become one" The aliens were trying to tell us that learning their language, so that time would not be a barrier to us, would enable humans to unify their civilization. Which is what happened after Louise wrote her book on the language. That's what the gathering was where she met General Shang. But national leaders interpreted it as an attempt to pit nations against one another.

I watched this film a couple of days before I watched your video and what I found really interesting was that you engaged with the non-linear time reveal on an emotional level some time before you understood it on a scientific level. I'd be interested to know how that mechanism works. Your reaction was lovely and genuine and I really enjoyed this video.

♾ Just watched a different reactor's take, which I took issue with, and then came here. What a stunning contrast. His reactions? About the power to experience non-linear time: "I WANT THAT!" Then, "Not everyone should have it though. I should have it." Then, "I would do everything in my possibility [sic] to make as much money as humanly possible." _EXACTLY_ why he should _NOT_ have that ability. He assumed that Louise's choice to have Hannah was "EXCLUSIVELY" selfish, so that she could enjoy the time with her daughter. Not so that Hannah could enjoy the time she was _alive_ . About Ian's choice to leave, "I think that it's fine that he [Ian] walked away from that." With _no_ _consideration_ for the effect that a father leaving his daughter for virtually the second half of her short life would have on her. How the _father_ felt mattered. Not how Hannah felt, with his absence. Sigh. For that reactor, who is intelligent, knowledgeable, and funny, the common threads through all his reactions are pride, ego, and selfishness. That's his lens, which he does not recognize. Now, look at the way _this_ reactor responded. She said that she couldn't figure out why she reflexively became emotional (indicating a capacity for introspection, missing entirely from the other reactor). Well, this tends to happen to compassionate people. Folks who understand the connections we have with those close to us. And what is closer than the parent/child bond? Further, we see the potential for unity connecting us to a race we can barely comprehend. Connections that transcend space, and time. Life needs life. Entropy needs death. We are at a point where those of us who see the folly of clawing for power and money as the meaning of our society are very frustrated with those still under that spell, and when we see allegory that plays that out, in such a well-crafted, powerful way as this movie, it touches us deeply, subconsciously. "Interstellar" and "Arrival" are science fiction that isn't about science. It is about humanity, and what we collectively must learn for humanity to avoid destroying itself. If we can't get past greed, vengeance, and the lust for power, then our race will have earned our fate. ☢ [Cue theme music from Fallout] ☢

Should make "The Expanse" series happen on this channel. I believe you'd enjoy the ride and there are going to be a ton of tears to shed before you're through with it!

@LippsReacts

4 ай бұрын

It is high on my list! I played The Expanse video game that is a prequel story to the show so my interest is very peaked

It’s a Sci-Fi masterpiece. The number one rule of great Sci-Fi is make it human. What’s more human than enjoying the time you have with someone knowing it will end? It’s about making choices in life. Everyday.😢

Arrival was more about the arrival of Hannah than the arrival of the aliens

I almost choked on what I was eating when you ‘they edged us’. 😂😂😂

I would have gone with the idea that the aliens were big Sheena Easton fans.

I find this movie so delicate in the message it tries to convey.

This is one of the best movies made in the last 20 years

I cry every single time I watch this movie, at the beginning and the ending. I think it’s a mixture of the great shots and the great score that really hits home.

You are great… thank you for sharing your emotion. I cry every time I watch this show. It reminds me that I wouldn’t change a thing with my kids and wife.

@LippsReacts

Ай бұрын

That’s so beautiful. I appreciate this movie so much

Every now and then something hits you in the heart really hard. It is nice seeing someone have true feelings right in front of you. Thank you. 😂

The opening sequences with her child was the future.

I'm thinking this is one of my top 5 movies of all time. It's so emotional, beautiful, heart breaking and hopeful. It hits so direct like it is directed specifically toward me . . . I can't help but get where I can not speak when watching it ♥

I loved the way your subconscious seemed to put thee pieces together before you actually understood the twist! Any reactor who doesn't cry watching this movie instantly makes me suspicious of their sincerity. Fantastic reaction!

@leslieturner8276

4 ай бұрын

You beat me to it! I was going to say precisely the same thing. Yes, her subconscious put all the pieces together before she was fully aware of the whole picture. Interesting.

I know I'm late to the reaction, but her initial comment toward the object was original and unique. "The way that it's standing feels...illegal." No one even broached that topic with such specificity. I think I like the way her mind works. When I see her skipping in her little boots, it breaks me almost every single time.

It hits eveyone who has any capability of feelings. Such a brilliant film. It wasn't even space movie, the aliens were just the backdrop. The biggest arch being abut embracing the life even in the face of ultimate tragedy of losing your child, the second arch about how language change way one sees things and audience mind expands the same rate as Louise learns the languege. A master piece.

What a film!!! I just watched it myself, and it turned on the waterworks for me, too! 😢😭 Thanks for sharing your reaction!

Another sci-fi masterpiece from Denis Villenueve

Oh what a great way to discover you and your channel! This movie is just marvellous. It also really splits the audience. One half loves every second of it and the other think it is boring, no action! 🤣 Denis Villeneuve is a genius! Watch ALL his movies! +1 subs for sure, really like how you reacted to this masterpiece. 😊

I think it hits so hard because the movie is only half about the aliens, but the other half is all about her, and her incredible sacrifice. Knowing how it will end, she still marries Ian and has her daughter, all so her daughter can live, even if only a short while. *sniff*

@themask8221

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. I also love how Costello too is like Louise, in the sense that they both knew the bittersweet future (Hannah dying early of sickness and Abbott dying due to the explosion) but still chose to move forward and not change course.

I had a very similar reaction after watching this movie for the first time.. I had an emotional response, and I’m a 52 year old man.. It was so very well written and portrayed. I needed time (ha) afterwards to..think..on it, decompress a little.. Brilliant film. Perfect reaction 🙏🏽

The reason I watch reactions to certain shows and movies, is to watch someone get it, just the way I did. Thank you for letting me feel that again, like it was the first time.

@LippsReacts

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for experiencing this with me!

I love to think. I love to explore different possibilities. The possibility of non linear time is fascinating and terrifying. To be able to experience every moment of your existence at once. As an aside, I have discussed this movie with many people. Some seem to come away with the idea that she could somehow change her future by making different choices. If time isn't linear, there is no past present or future. No cause and effect. For example, she cannot decide not to have a child to spare herself and Ian the pain of losing Hannah. All one can do is embrace the truth of the events that will happen throughout your existence. That is her true courage. To embrace what is. For the record, time may actually be non linear. We just may not be able to perceive it. Like I said... fascinating and terrifying.

@4thlinemaniac356

4 ай бұрын

First Off Time only exists inside the Materiium ( the physical world ) and time ceases to exist outside of it. @An Introduction to Thinking And Destiny by Harold Percival @ the word foundation channel.

Top 10 best movies of the last 25 years.

(23:15) for those that don't understand, a "zero sum game", is where one person's win, means another person's lost (you get 1 point for winning, -1 point for losing, the sum of the points remains 0); similarly, poker, you have several people playing, some loss money, some gain money, the total sum is 0. But let's say a game like D&D. there is no "winner", and everyone enjoys it (or it goes to shit, and everyone hates it).

I heard a theory from a comment from a different reaction where they posited that the reason why she lost her daughter is that when she came in contact with the heptapod's atmosphere, it affected her DNA and in turn her daughter's.

I have watched a number of reactors reacting to this movie (because I love this movie) and very few of them ever know what the bird is for. I would have thought it was common knowledge, but I guess not, no offense. There's even a saying, which I guess one wouldn't understand if one didn't know about birds in a mine, "canary in the coal mine". Miners would take canaries with them into coal mines, or whatever kind of mines, and the canary would react to anything detrimental or poisonous, like a lack of oxygen or a pocket of dangerous gas, before a human would. So the saying means that something or someone which/who is an early warning of danger. If they were to take scientific instrumentation with them, there just wouldn't be any instrumentation they could use that could read everything that might be dangerous to a human. Also, since I'm thinking about it, because this movie always makes me think about it, when I was younger I would often have these dreams that would come true. (I still have them, just not as often.) And one time, in my dream, I was talking to someone about something I had dreamt. I woke up immediately, and thought about the dream, committed it to memory, and then went back to sleep. In a few days I was in that place in my dream, walking with a friend, a place I'd never been before that day, talking about the dream I had, it played out exactly as I had dreamt it. I walked and then stopped mid-sentence because it was exactly the dream I had, and it had just occurred to me that my dream was happening at that moment. Non-linear time is not how we normally experience time, and I can say that it is quite confusing and trippy to remember something that hasn't happened yet. And, just for fun, I would try to change things from my dream. Sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn't. One time I triumphantly won an argument with my brother about why I didn't need to lend him twenty bucks, because of the dream I had. It was noice. I already knew his arguments and counter-arguments, the entire conversation. His weird looks throughout the whole thing, he had no idea what was happening. Like I said, trippy.

When it's said that the heptapods told the Russians, "There is no time," and everyone interprets it as a threat or a sign to hurry… and they're literally trying to say that time doesn't exist to them

Another great soundtrack and thought-provoking story to immerse yourself in. I keep films like this close at hand to help rewire my brain. You start to see a larger world around you.

Easily in my top five sci-fi movies of all time. It's so heartbreakingly beautiful in every conceivable way 😢 Thank you for sharing the rawness of your reaction! By the way, _Arrival_ is based on _Story Of Your Life_ by the author Ted Chiang, and I absolutely urge you to check out the original story as well as Chiang's other work; he's a master in the genre and writes absolutely gorgeous and thought-provoking stories.

What I like about this movie is that the aliens seemed authentic. There was nothing cliche or stereotypical about them, morphologically. Very original. And the musical score just added the right atmosphere of eeriness that the subject calls for.

A point people keep missing is that even the Heptapods can only see their own future, so a large portion of them must be alive in 3000 years to know they need to contact humanity, that this mission is important. They must be incredibly long lived.

Brilliant movie!! They had real linguists come up with the alien language. This movie, imo, depicts how almost impossible it would be to interact with aliens. Human language derives from our interactions with other humans and our environment on earth, our emotions, our society and civilization, even abstract ideas and concepts. So how would we understand alien ideas and concepts when we can barely communicate with each other without our emotions taking over?

My favourite movie of all time. A perfect experience

Fun facts (sorry if already mentioned): 1. The main music theme is Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight. Interesting is that this song is also a palindrome like Hannah. If you play it backwards it sounds the same. 2. General Shang's wife dying words (at least most of them) are "In war, there are no winners, only widows." 3. Alien names (Abbott and Costello) are based on comedian TV show with those two in main roles. Most of funny sketches are based on their language misunderstanding. Another great thing is that Abbott is often late on stage. In this movie Abbott was coming to the screen later. But in this case it was because he knew he will die by the explosion and he was scared.

it's the music that makes it hit so hard

They were memories all along. Memories of the future.

I saw this is theaters and am still trying to recover from it. Beautiful reaction to an amazing movie, I'm glad you got to experience this one!

"That's such a boring thought" commentary really nailed my subscription, made me ctfu

"That was something". Yes it was. Thank you for sharing. Indeed.

You are not in isolation with your emotions regarding this movie. I also bawled my eyes out , and I'm a god damn grown man.

It's a very very emotional movie, esp with that music and the narrative twist. Very meaningful, makes one think. Great reaction.

One of the best movies ever made in my opinion, great reaction video, I suscribed, also going to start watching your GOT reactions

Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" (1998), on which this film was based, is possibly the best science fiction story of the late 20th century. Having seen the film won't ruin it for you, because it goes in directions and uses language in ways the film isn't able to capture (although I don't think it would have been possible to do a better adaptation than this one). Everyone knows, deep down, that we eventually lose everyone we love, but most of us hide it from ourselves, to make life and love bearable. What is devastating and also, well, holy about this story is that the protagonist is faced with that fact in an inescapable way, and chooses love anyway. Of course everyone cries.

@aikighost

4 ай бұрын

Fantastic take of an amazing story, thanks.

Oh, I love this movie so much. So sweet and heartbreaking at the same time. I always watch it when I need a really good cry and can't get the tears to start. It usually does the trick.

Ted Chiang wrote the short story this is based on and every story he has written is worth reading.

Great reaction Lipps like always, i love this movie its one of my favourites, and its based on "story of your life," a 1998 short story by Ted Chiang, this movie spent a long time in development hell as it was believed to be unfilmable it took years for a production company to take a chance on it, and it took a few more years on top of that to tweak the script until a studio wanted to fund the shoot. When he saw the finished film (when it finally got made), Chiang really enjoyed it, finding it to be both a great adaptation and a great all-round movie. When casting was underway Amy Adams was Denis Villeneuve’s first choice for the role of Louise. Adams reportedly accepted the part within 24 hours of receiving the script. Other fun facts about it a whole language was created for this movie, During pre-production director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer created an entire language for the movie. Along with their creative team, they put together a “logogram bible” containing more than a hundred different linguistic images. Out of these hundred-plus logograms, a total of 71 actually appear in the finished film. Denis Villeneuve made his screenwriter Eric Heisserer work for weeks on what Shang’s wife’s last words would be. So, Heisserer was pretty peeved when he found out that the words he was forced to rewrite over and over again weren’t even subtitled in the final cut. Heisserer would’ve preferred not to leave the words a mystery to English-speaking audiences and is happy to translate the film’s most crucial line of dialogue for anyone who asks: “In war, there are no winners, only widows.” In order to prepare for the role of a linguistics expert in this movie, Amy Adams consulted with an actual linguistic professor named Jessica Coon, who teaches at McGill University. According to Coon, what the movie gets right about language is its interactive nature, although she contests claims that the filmmakers invented a whole new language for the movie. Keep up the amazing work.

I would love it if you got your thirty thousand years. Shout out to fellow J. Graham Brown School (Louisville, Kentucky) graduate, cinematographer Bradford Young, ASC., who photographed Arrival and Sicario, both beautifully shot films.

“Canary in a coal mine.” Miners used to take canaries down the mines. The birds were the analysts of air purity, due to underground gases that might be toxic. Bird dies? GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE ASAP!!! And this is why the tribe’s elders. They knew shit the younger ones had yet to learn. (73 here 😄)

This is what I believe first contact will actually be like.

I just found your channel with this video. I loved your reaction and will definitely be subscribing! Keep up the great work!

@LippsReacts

4 ай бұрын

Glad you found the channel!!

Not sure if anyone told you this but the bird was to make sure they could breathe it is an old trick miners would use if the bird dies then they would likely die.

Beautiful reaction. The feeling after watching a movie like this maybe like transitioning from a full cup to one that's only half full. The "emptiness" is that there is more to learn in the world. You've opened up a new place to learn more. Maybe. Thanks for your reaction.

I’ve seen this film a half dozen times and thought the reference to a Sheena Easton hit in 1980 was just a cute little thing they put in there for fun. Then I looked up the lyrics… and realized the screenwriter adding this wasn’t just for giggles. The song is called “9 to 5” and check out some of the lyrics: I wake up every mornin', I stumble out of bed Stretchin' and yawnin', another day ahead It seems to last forever and time goes slowly by 'Til babe and me's together, then it starts to fly 'Cause the moment that he's with me, time can take a flight The moment that he's with me, everything's alright Nighttime is the right time, we make love Then it's his and my time, we take off My baby takes the morning train He works from nine to five and then He takes another home again to find me waitin' for him My baby takes the morning train He works from nine to five and then He takes another home again, to find me waitin' for him … and variants of these lyrics repeat even throughout the fade out. Do the lyrics remind you of anything? And the fact that they repeat without resolution? I just realized this while watching your reaction and my mind was further blown. 🤯 Arrival is an amazing film. A true screenwriting masterpiece.

This is one of my favorite movies. I cry every time, but I just love love love this movie.

another winner. very beautiful reaction. i may have some insight as to why it hit you so hard. sometimes we innately know when something is true. and this story is much more true than most would believe. i've been listening to some aliens for almost a decade now. but their communications go back much farther than that. and this movie depicts exactly what they have been saying. not all beings see time as linear. we don't have to, either. and yes, embracing the moment connects us to pasts and futures that are worth embracing. they have also said that in tears are chemicals representative of beliefs that you are letting go of while crying. that is why we can cry from happiness.. we are letting go of negative beliefs. thanks for sharing

It's one of the very few films that I've immediately rewatched (after first making myself a sandwich!), and I liked it even better the second time! I came in completely unprepared for the emotional depth of this many-faceted film. I like that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was mentioned, as I am absolutely convinced that language does indeed shape how we think, including how we view the world. This could have been mentioned without adding a "dream sequence" that I felt was a bit out-of-place. Regardless, I consider "Arrival" to be not only one of my favourite sci-fi films, but one of my favourite films of all time! I found it interesting from a psychological point-of-view that you got emotional even though you felt that it didn't quite "click" for you yet. Perhaps it did, but at a deeper level? By the way, I'd probably consider language the foundation of civilisation as well, but I reckon that Ian was referring to mathematics, geometry, astronomy, chemistry, and many other fields that are important building blocks used to shape what we call civilisations. Still, we'd always find communication - that is, language - at the core of all scientific fields, indeed at the core of human nature. I've sometimes wondered how I would view the world if I had no language at all. Thanks for a great reaction!

A wonderful reaction, I've seen this brilliant piece of filmmaking quite a few times, and it gets me every time. When I think of my personal heartbreak and loss, if I knew of it in advance, would I do anything differently. One interesting point that this film raises, is do we really have free will, is the future already mapped out?

This is my favorite movie about aliens. Your reaction was amazing. I really felt it.

I can highly recommend getting the book Stories Of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. It's one of the short stories in the book, amazing writing.

Seen it a few times... hits me everytime So honestly done

It's not the same kind of emotional feeling, but one of Denis Villeneuve's other movies, Sicario, is probably in my top 5. Strongly recommended. (This one is also one of my favorites, but maybe not top 5.)

The cornerstone of civilisation, for humans at least, is agriculture. It's only with agriculture that we could acheive the population density (towns and cities) that enabled (and required) the other trappings of civilisation.