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Arrival

1957Movie30 min

Drama
91
ExcellentGoodWatch score
91
ExcellentGoodWatch score

Summary

This drama portrays an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair that characterize their life in a strange land. An Italian wife joins her husband in a large Canadian city.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Family movie night
  • Friends night

Skip it if

  • You want something to laugh at
  • You want dark or edgy material

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  • Warms you up.
  • Hits close to home.
  • Lifts you up.

Not for scares, brutality or adrenaline.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Otherworldly Communication FailureRare · in 60 titlesNone of humanity knows why the heptapods have landed on Earth and communication attempts with them to learn why are hampered due to the heptapods Starfish Language.Language Equals ThoughtRare · in 30 titlesA major theme. Ian and Louise even discuss this trope by its philosophical name, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, when Ian asks Louise if she's begun dreaming and thinking in the heptapods' language.All 134 tropes

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