Ep. 68: Arrival
Cinema of Meaning
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The Importance of Language in the Movie
I love the way this movie so nicely uses these aliens as that metaphor to kind of dive into these existential questions that also pertain to us and that we are also struggling to answer. Language is inherently a simplification of what we experience like if you have two chairs for example and they look exactly the same made of exactly the same material. I always love movies that just really get into the nitty gritty of something when they're exploring like it's subjects like language.
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