Weber recruits the help of Banks and the jovial theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) to establish communication and interpret the purpose of this momentous, yet ominous, first contact for mankind. The senior military officer in charge is Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker), flanked by the parallel agenda of CIA Agent Halpern (Michael Stuhlbarg).
military and intelligence operations have descended on the quarantined Montana arrival occupying a valley of grassy countryside wrapped in flowing fog. Collaborating with the other guest countries, a guarded coalition of U.S. Each are ovaline monoliths that stand at least five miles high and appear to hover motionlessly only a few yards above the ground. Villeneuve’s film twists her tragic personal anchor around an escalating global situation caused by the sudden appearance of twelve alien vessels across the globe. Gifted in interpreting a wide range of oral and written communication, Louise, ironically, has grown sullen and detached from most human contact due to a personal loss revealed in her reflections and daydreams. Louise Banks, one of the nation’s top practitioners and professors of linguistics, played by five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams. True to its distinction of human central core, nearly every observation and vantage point in “Arrival” goes through Dr. The film is based on author Ted Chiang’s multiple award-winning 1998 novella “Story of Your Life” and adapted for the screen by thriller specialist Eric Heisserer (“Lights Out,” “Hours”). The less you know about “Arrival,” the better. Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” examines each of those dichotomies with invigorating tension and potent emotionality. Such special films take a futuristic viewpoint and look at our optimism versus pessimism, our improvement versus our hubris, and, ultimately, our flaws versus our strengths as a species or a civilization. Those select films measure up to a bar set by Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and not blockbuster roller coasters. There is a class of films within the science fiction genre that go out of their way to stress the human value of the cinematic equation over the spectacle of the fiction and science.
52nd Chicago International Film Festival Closing Night Film
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