As a father who lost both my teenage boys a year ago, this movie is very special to me. Its message of embracing the overwhelming pain to come to ensure that you can have the joys and experiences of your children is spot on. My grief will never end in my lifetime, but I would gladly take all of it for even one moment with my boys.

@fxbear

3 ай бұрын

I can’t even begin to imagine loosing two sons. I lost my soulmate a few years back. While it’s easier to talk about, when I’m on my own I just sink into the pain and despair. Maybe a day will come when it doesn’t bite so deeply, but for now I need the pain to remind myself it was real. My heart goes with you.

@geromino2007

3 ай бұрын

I'm father of 11 year old boy and even just an idea of losing him breaks me into tears. I think this movie touches the very deep bittersweet truth and beauty in life that even with the ultimate tradegy of one losing their own child life is still worth it.

Excellent poker face through the whole film, Jessa. I'd have given things away on 30 different occasions.

@sparksdrinker5650

3 ай бұрын

that's lame

@Patriiiiick

3 ай бұрын

@@sparksdrinker5650 Lame how?

@sparksdrinker5650

3 ай бұрын

@@Patriiiiick to be that guy you can't watch a movie with if he's seen it.

@Patriiiiick

3 ай бұрын

@@sparksdrinker5650 I'm usually pretty good but specifically this film would have been difficult during certain moments and I only mean via facial expressions if someone were to look over and I looked a bit sad.

As a linguist, I also have to point out this movie is theoretically sound. All these linguistic concepts are proven and do work in real life. There are no languages that can rewire your brain to the point of being able to send information through time, however there are languages that have wildly different relationships and perceptions of time in relation to one another. While actually experiencing time simultaneously is the fictional part of the science fiction, there could exist, theoretically, a language that changes your relationship to time enough that, as events happen, your brain might process them as memories and previous knowledge rather than new information. Language and the human mind (in more ways than one, the same exact thing) are powerful, mysterious, fascinating things!

Thinking about those last words ("In war, there are no winners, only widows") and the theme of grief that you mention.

Have only seen one other reactor who guessed as well as you did that they're from the future. Plus smart commentary on what was happening. Always refreshing to see such intelligent insights.

Great reaction vid. I was lucky enough to see this in the theater and the last act was one of those profound moments when you realize you're sitting and watching greatness unfold on the screen in front of you. I walked around for days afterwards with this movie living in my head.

@Bekka_Noyb

3 ай бұрын

me & my mom took a chance on this (in theater) and were so glad we did. Such an amazing film! ♥

One of my fav of the past 10 years.

@CandC68

3 ай бұрын

For my past 70 years. Right up there with the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

"Why do I have to talk to him?" - oh yes, what we were all thinking.

30:40 Boy, that dog hates spoilers... :D

Respect to Alex calling the twist early. I kinda think this is one of the best movies ever made. Love is worth the pain of loss.

12:50 That smolder at the camera! 😍

Watching this movie, for me, was like their language. I didn’t understand it the first time. Then when I watched again and fully understood the movie, it BLEW my mind. Such a great movie!

One of my favorite films

What a reaction, as usual and what a film! Villeneuve is a genius.

I remember watching this on a whim while visiting my brother at college and I’m still blown away.

The music does so much for this movie and the heavier moments. It's called "on the nature of daylight", a great piece.

This movie is really something special and that finale is so emotional and heart wrenching

Oh, this was a good weepy film for me.

Yay! I was your 100th like! Definitely recommend going back and watching it again, but I also recommend that you watch other people's reactions because it's really wonderful watching someone react to a movie that you've seen and love. One of the things that came up for me when I watched this movie is the concept of regret. Think of how many times people have to grieve the loss of their child, would regret having children? Of course not. You wouldn't say "If I had known you would develop this disease, I never would've had you." How awful would that be if you were the one with the disease? I don't know, it's tough. But it definitely makes you think, doesn't it? Good reaction! Thanks!

This is a beautiful movie, and never fails to make me cry either. Great watch.

Alex, I want you to know that you are not alone in loving Jeremy Renner. I think he is a highly under-rated and very likable actor. Before his accident, he was at the top of my list to play Indiana Jones if they ever decided to do a reboot (in the better alternate universe where he didn't get run over by a snow plow, he's still up there, head and shoulders above everyone else).

Oh excellent choice ladies!

"Sir, if you have something to say, would you raise your hand, please?" I honestly LOLed for a straight half minute! hilarious.

Cried with you for the Nth time watching this amazing movie. Thank you for the experience! Btw, 4:43 amazing transformation of the water into wine 😂. LOLed hard.

The main point, I think, is that pain is always the price we pay for love. Love costs pain. However it ends, be it a separation or a death, there is nothing in life that lasts eternal. However, the privilege of experiencing that love - of meeting her child, the memories and moments they shared, is worth the cost.

This movie blew me away

It's amazing to imagine living your life non-linearly. And in the book, iirc, there's an ability to experience your whole life at once which would be... overwhelming.

Really beautiful film

I will watch this reaction yesterday and I saw it tomorrow.

I love this movie, saw it in the cinema, I'll pour myself a drink and watch your reactions, Me and my Wife just watched Working Girl, she loved it, I hadn't seen it in years, it's on Disney+ you can't get the blu ray in the UK :(

“The Simon and Alisha of it all” SOMEONE ELSE WHO’S STILL IN THEIR SALISHA FEELINGS HELL YEAH 😭🙌🏻😆

How did I miss that you'd reacted to this?! If you haven't read Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" (1998), on which this film was based, I highly recommend it. It is possibly the best science fiction short story of the late 20th century. The fact that you've already seen the film won't ruin it for you, because it works along different dimensions and uses entirely different techniques. Even though you know (more or less) how it comes out, it will still devastate you in a new way.

It was funny for me to see that soldier (the one who set the bomb) played by that actor (Mark O'Brien), because I'd only seen him in a Canadian series as a goofy teen nerd in a PI comedy show. He also had a role in Halt & Catch Fire - a good show especially if you have an interest in the history of computing, but it's not required.

Amazing pickup ahead of time (hah!) on the visions of the child being from Louise's future! Very few reactors figure that out before the most obvious reveal. -- Of course, the Heptopods when they Arrived on Earth, already remembered Louise, so whatever communication attempts happened before she showed up in the shell, they were just "Nope, we don't talk to you, Louise will be here in a bit." and then when she shows up with her whiteboard they are like "Finally, Louise is here." -- Except for the Heptopod that knows they are going to die, that one is like "I'm not really in much of a hurry, can't we just chill for a while longer? Oh, never mind, I know we can't, you know I was just kidding." -- Abbott and Costello, who's (hah!) most famous comedy routine is about multiple meanings for a word. -- In the opening sequence in the hospital, there is one shot of Louise walking down a curved (presumably circular) corridor.

30:40 doggo says "no spoilers >:("

1:16 I agree, love part one

@Aussie27Legend

3 ай бұрын

I actually do as well! I liked the fall of the house of atreidis (lol) than (just) the rise of paul.

12:45 I have a lab also and he’ll do the same when I’m watching tv. 🤗🐶

Beautiful dog! Is it a kokoni?

I'm not sure if I'm ready to forgive Amy Adams for being mean to Tara in Buffy episode 5x06.

You're not the only one who preferred Dune Part 1. I've been a Dune fanatic since 1986. The problem with Part 2 is that it should have been broken up into the last 2 chapters of the book: "Muad'Dib" and "The Prophet".

Yall should watch Godzilla minus one. It’s so good

As a Dune book reader I probablyyyyy prefer part 1. That's not thattt rare a take. Pretty rare tho lol.

Who knew my coffee cup stains held the key to unlocking time all along?

I love seeing reactions to this movie (also to Shawshank Redemption and Interstellar) because of how the reactors empathize with what the characters go through, and the plot twists. When Alex predicted this movie's BIG Plot Twist, I literally said: "D'OHH !!!", because I love to see people's jaws drop when they see the drawing and the play-dough heptapod, and it HITs them ! Usually in 1-2 seconds, but some people stay confused for a bit. :D Agree that this movie benefits from re-watching, as you see how some clues are already there. "Non-zero sum game" is probably the most obvious clue. But by presenting the epilogue as the "prologue", the movie takes advantage of our linear perception of time.

@anorthosite

3 ай бұрын

The only weak plot point, I think, is that: If I had called China on a stolen sat phone, with the CIA and military pointing guns at me, I think I'd remember it more clearly, even 18 months later ! XD

@jessaandalexwatch

3 ай бұрын

That’s an interesting moment, cause for the purpose of the movie Louise needs to discover what was happening in the moment, but that makes it more… Days of Future Past time travel rather than Louise experiencing all of time at once. It’s fine; it doesn’t keep me from enjoying the movie at all, but I do think it’s the one scene where the magic works differently.

@anorthosite

3 ай бұрын

@@jessaandalexwatch The movie, overall, is a mind-bending Masterpiece ! :)

2 ай бұрын

@@jessaandalexwatch Louise was only able to talk with General Shang after her final vision, where she has learned the entire heptapod language, and remodeled her mind to be like the heptapods. She wasn't really "time traveling", she was simply looking at her life through a different lens, like a heptapod would. She talks about the Sapir-Whorf theory earlier in the film. How learning a new language, she couldn't have remembered calling General Shang, because she didn't know she had called him until talking to him in the future. After having her brain rewired into a "heptapod brain", she experiences time in a non-linear fashion. As she's talking with General Shang in future, she is waiting for him to tell her his dying wife's words in the future. She is living in both the past and the future simultaneously, because of the non-linear time. There actually isn't any "time travel" in Arrival. It is simply a different perspective from Louise, which gives it the appearance of time travel. Arrival is highly influenced by the Hermaneutic Circle, which is the idea that our understanding of a text as a whole is based on our understanding of each individual part, as well as our understanding of how each individual part refers to the whole text. The hermeneutic circle doesn't mean that it's impossible to objectively interpret a text. The movie Arrival itself IS a Hermaneutic Circle. First watching the movie you get the impression that the visions of Hannah were from the past, and not the future. After seeing the movie however, you will have a greater understanding of the importance of those visions. The final visions of Hannah that Louise has is a compilation of her previous visions. Like the one with her riding her little fake toy horse, and a bunch of other happy and heartwarming stuff. Know what was missing? A single vision of Hannah sitting in her hospital bed. Because Louise has access to her non-linear time, she can go to any point in her life instantly, reliving all the positive memories with Hannah until the day she dies. I think this is why she choose to have Hannah, and Ian told her she "made a mistake". To Ian, the only thing he will probably remember is Hannah in the hospital, because he only lives with the linear human time. Louise chose to have Hannah even knowing Ian would leave her, because she would at least get all the years she was healthy and alive, any time she wants. If she didn't have Hannah, she would lose all of those experiences. She felt that even though Hannah would die at an early age, having all the happy memories with her that she got before she was sick was worth the pain and suffering of her death. Here's a video that explains the Hermaneutic Circle with more detail. The entire film Arrival is ITSELF a Hermaneutic Circle, with the end of the film at the beginning and the beginning at the end. Only by viewing the film will you have a complete Hermanuetic Circle of the film. By having watched the film, it will play a LOT differently the second time through. This is because you have expanded your Hermaneutic Circle by watching the film once, and know her kid is going to die. The part where it explains how learning a new language expands the Hermaneutic allowing vision of all previous rings of the Circle is critical to the "time travel" in the film. Louise goes through several "mental upgrades" through the film whenever she talks to the heptapods(every time she goes through an "upgrade" she is immediately hit by a new vision of her daughter). The first being when she wrote on the heptapods glass wall, then immediately had a vision of her daughter, her second was when she wrote on the heptapods wall. There were several other "upgrades" that Louise went through during the movie, each time increasing her Hermaneutic Circle, giving her knowledge of the previous Circles without ever having experienced them herself directly(which is why she asked General Shang, "I called you...", because she literally didn't know until he told her but she had expanded her Hermaneutic Circle far enough into the future that she could talk to General Shang herself). kzread.info/dash/bejne/q3ekt85woKm1cqg.html

1:59 Which is why people should never tell someone they're going to cry!

What’s the name of the podcast. Please!

@jessaandalexwatch

2 ай бұрын

Art of the Score

@vividratsculpordwarf

2 ай бұрын

You are an angel 💫

You didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand WHY you made it.

You need another pair of headphones 😊