The Ending Of Arrival Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
  • Denis Villeneuve is fast becoming one of the most exciting directors of the 2010s. He started gaining prominence for his heart-wrenching drama Incendies, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.
    Villeneuve was known for his dramatic thrillers but now he has ventured into the sci-fi realm with Arrival. The movie is based on the short story “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang and critics are already hailing the movie as one of the best of the year.
    It’s arguably one of the most beautiful sci-fi movies ever made and it’s a story that you have to watch with a lot of focus if you want to catch its subtle and poignant messages. In case you got lost in the movie's beautiful cinematography alone, here is an explanation of its complex ending.
    #Arrival #Movie #Film
    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | 0:00
    Rewiring Louise's brain | 1:01
    Weapon opens time | 1:52
    Everything is pre-determined | 3:11
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Комментарии • 652

  • @Looper
    @Looper  6 лет назад +93

    What other movie endings should we explain next?

  • @Lexx1976
    @Lexx1976 3 года назад +709

    You go to the movies, you leave with a bachelor degree in theoretical physics

    • @Barefoot433
      @Barefoot433 3 года назад +4

      Shortcuts are truly the pop novelty these days, in all its absurdity.

    • @thesniperviper3146
      @thesniperviper3146 2 года назад +3

      I left realizing $9 popcorn was as absurd as this movies attempt to seem smart was. I left unsatisfied and broke.

    • @genesis_888
      @genesis_888 2 года назад

      Hahaha for real!!!

    • @vvthetalentlessduo6976
      @vvthetalentlessduo6976 2 года назад

      Lol

    • @idkhahahaha
      @idkhahahaha Год назад

      I just left confused

  • @-C.S.R
    @-C.S.R 4 года назад +715

    I can’t wait until they make the video that explains this video

    • @bigcsbigbrother3685
      @bigcsbigbrother3685 4 года назад +21

      THANK YOU.

    • @themagnuspowfilms5956
      @themagnuspowfilms5956 4 года назад +14

      If you watch the movie it makes sense.

    • @naiarene2243
      @naiarene2243 4 года назад +1

      😳

    • @mehula_p2022
      @mehula_p2022 4 года назад +1

      A transcript would be great.

    • @MeetFluence
      @MeetFluence 3 года назад +7

      This is exactly like Dark
      In which to understand the series we need to understand hypothesis about everything is predetermined so this is almost same just the difference is in Dark he time travels and in Arrival she has visions

  • @davidhartzheim3630
    @davidhartzheim3630 6 лет назад +455

    Best SF movie in a long time. Such a relief from the hundreds of dystopian earth stories and horrible alien creatures pitted against humans. And Amy Adams is wonderful.

    • @sasgarbage7482
      @sasgarbage7482 Год назад +1

      Dystopian stories rather interesting but sometimes boring if not done well. In this movie, it's kinda cliffhanger

    • @WiseLuck117
      @WiseLuck117 10 месяцев назад

      Honestly, just fucking hear the message. Stop being a shit critic. Everyone hates a critic. P.S. - Idgaf that this is a 5 year old comment.

    • @MsTheShit101
      @MsTheShit101 8 месяцев назад +1

      Probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched

  • @fkrkf
    @fkrkf 6 лет назад +144

    That's so tragic. Louise knows she's going to lose her daughter but because of her new reality she can't change that. She must entire the fact forever that she will have this baby and can revisit parts of her life but won't be able to save her. She will live with the ecstasy of her daughter's birth and the devastation of her daughter's loss at all times.

    • @KOZtic
      @KOZtic 3 года назад +9

      Yeah and what's cool is that we all experience our lives primarily through our present awareness of time. Then often we relive memories, good and bad, in our heads. We think of the past. Reminiscing good times or randomly recalling some obscure and quirky memory. Can you imagine yourself being remembered by your future self about having this thought? LOL If you are yourself in the future thinking about this memory, what's going to happen next?

    • @mattgartshore1536
      @mattgartshore1536 Год назад +21

      But that is exactly the point, she does have a moment to change that future when her husband asks if she wants to have a baby, and in spite of knowing that her daughter will die, and all of the pain that comes with it, she decides that her daughters short life was still worth it.
      In that scene where she says "yes", is the most subtle and beautiful affirmation of life. In all lifes difficulty and suffering, the loss of our loved ones, those that die in their time, and those before their time, to be able to turn to life and say "yes, I accept this pain. For all the beauty and love that we have shared is worth it."
      To be able to say this in our darkest moments is to live within a profound love of life itself.

    • @Tanavids
      @Tanavids Год назад +8

      She knows of the loss but she knows of the deep love, too. Her other choice was to ensure that child NEVER existed, which would be worse. I mean in a lesser extent we all make this decision with beloved pets. we know we will lose them and the pain will be great, but we love them nonetheless. we choose the pain because the joy is worth it.

    • @alrighthen
      @alrighthen Год назад +1

      But why she can't change the future? I didn't get that one. I understand why she still chose to have a child, but the fact that she hadn't got any other choice changes everything. I'd appreciate if someone explained me with "simple terms". lol

    • @CleverMonkeyArt
      @CleverMonkeyArt Год назад +3

      @@alrighthen I think the original poster is incorrect. I think the movie itself says that in spite of knowing the future pain and loss of her child , she CHOSE to have her anyway because of the joy that is also part of it (as well as the joy, then pain of losing her husband after he finds out that she already knew this). I might not be too sure that what she sees is the one and only future. Why couldn't she just refuse to get pregnant? Who's holding a gun to her head making her get pregnant?

  • @khadijagwen
    @khadijagwen 6 лет назад +199

    Having seen the movie several times, I can say without qualification that it is probably the most intelligent Sci Fi I have ever seen. As expected, humans tried to screw it up, but this time, the Heptapods and one human salvaged it. I would like to see two or more sequels to it but unless a producer can be convinced that it would be a money maker ...

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 года назад +19

      Nah. Story's over. When humans learn that the language itself is timeless, it becomes natural. To explain a bit more: The Heptopod language describes in a single symbol not only an action or object, but the action and consequences throughout time itself aswell

    • @hegemon3
      @hegemon3 2 года назад +4

      Have you seen Contact with Jodie Foster? It's a gem

    • @akhilalexg
      @akhilalexg 2 года назад +5

      But still whole word will only know that there will be a threat in future and humans have to help aliens. But we dont know what the threat is and how are they going to survive.🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️ @@paulmichaelfreedman8334

    • @stackmon3y1989
      @stackmon3y1989 2 года назад

      I just watched it , it's ok 6/10

    • @egg-iu3fe
      @egg-iu3fe Год назад +5

      I like how the movie involved the entire world, because in real life that's how it would happen too. Whereas in other alien movies, stuff only happens inside the US which is unrealistic

  • @igkgigoh
    @igkgigoh 6 лет назад +66

    "I'm just a puppet who can see the strings."
    Just a mindblowing quote from Watchmen to me, but I didn't know that this language meant the same for Banks.

  • @Henry-yo9qf
    @Henry-yo9qf 6 лет назад +210

    Don't forgot the amazing music from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. R.I.P

    • @rriicckkyy07
      @rriicckkyy07 3 года назад +5

      Omg your comment was news to me! I remember his song “The Sun’s Gone Dim..,” for the trailer of the movie Battle: Los Angeles, and I was completely moved by it.

  • @35mmMovieTrailersScans
    @35mmMovieTrailersScans 6 лет назад +262

    General Chang stated "I do not claim to know how your mind works", he understood enough of the prescience to know he had to show her his number and tell her the dying words of his ex-wife, but to conclude that he learned the heptopods' language is a step too far.

    • @maribatcric
      @maribatcric 4 года назад +3

      Totally agree! He said that he felt that what he told her was important. He didn't go back in his own time-experience

    • @marcotrolo3134
      @marcotrolo3134 4 года назад +30

      I think what happened was, the science of how that language worked was shown around the world, so the general understood how it worked, but didnt necessarily know the lamguage

    • @ivansalazar5005
      @ivansalazar5005 3 года назад +8

      If you watch the video titled "How I Wrote Arrival" the writer says that she did have a choice. So that part about this is also wrong. I also don't believe General Change learned the language. He just knows what you gain from it

    • @TheJimbles
      @TheJimbles 2 года назад +1

      Agreed. I don't believe General Chang understood the language either. Nor do I believe this concept of time in the movie implies fatalism or pre-determinism. As you say, she tells her daughter that she makes a choice to have her, despite knowing what she does about her sickness and death.

    • @Tanavids
      @Tanavids Год назад +4

      Well it was years later when he told her - when she was being celebrated at a gala. so by then he might well have learned it, as she'd made teaching it more accessible by that time. Personally I think him knowing enough of it to know the single most important decision of his life makes the most sense. It was the one thing I never quite got in the movie.

  • @ceerstar851
    @ceerstar851 Год назад +25

    I love movies like this that are written by actual intellectual and intelligent people. I was captivated by the concept of this movie however realistic. I enjoy watching a movie that my mind has not yet fathomed the idea. This movie has a really fresh direction on the whole sci-fi/alien genre.

  • @thomashazlewood4658
    @thomashazlewood4658 6 лет назад +25

    When I reached that telling point in the movie, I said, "Oooooh,". Been a long time since a movie caught me off guard, not since the Sixth Sense.

    • @fernandopereira8313
      @fernandopereira8313 4 года назад +1

      Exactly the film I compared Arrival with ! When she says 'zero-sum game' I felt the same way when Bruce Willis' wedding ring went rolling kn the floor !

  • @Classsseaissues
    @Classsseaissues 6 лет назад +225

    I don’t know how she’s not won an Oscar yet 🤷🏾‍♀️ Hollywood is messy

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 6 лет назад +8

      Greta Kaviya I may be wrong, but it may be a perception of her based on her involvement with the much-derided DC Extended Universe franchise.

    • @bigben9056
      @bigben9056 4 года назад +7

      @@dalethelander3781 heh thats dumb dude llike brain dead

    • @imakrewitatl
      @imakrewitatl 4 года назад +8

      Greta Kaviya she didnt put Weinsteins dong in her mouth

    • @KingKan
      @KingKan 4 года назад +1

      Yup, we now know about the nonsense of Hollywood Film and Music

    • @SD-bu9xf
      @SD-bu9xf 4 года назад +3

      U can't except honesty from the most smart species on earth.

  • @PeterParker-vq2cz
    @PeterParker-vq2cz 3 года назад +34

    in the middle of watching the movie and i knew a little about it going in, like she can see the future thanks to the aliens and that the daughter is her daughter with the renner character, however i got chills while watching the "zero sum game" scene, made me pause it and search to find out if she can not only see the future, but can literally interact with that future as well, meaning, did she just giver herself the answer to her daughters question based on an event from the past????
    seems the answer is yes and that is a pretty cool concept :)

    • @rushilairan5502
      @rushilairan5502 3 года назад +5

      A really nice observation, thanks a lot

    • @scottnickerson3918
      @scottnickerson3918 Год назад +4

      Yes, that's exactly right. Non-linear thinking and reality allows for such an event as this. It was the coolest scene i've ever seen in a movie about time and language. But of course, there aren't many to chose from. Rather than negate free-will, this movie actually emphasizes it. Louise actually chooses to have her daughter in spite of knowing the painful end that awaits her. Its a very powerful statement about the value of life and the contribution to our existence of every individual human being.

  • @themoddingprodigy577
    @themoddingprodigy577 Год назад +8

    A really beautiful and timeless movie. You can get lost in its calmness.

  • @Kimoto504
    @Kimoto504 4 года назад +121

    If you learn a language and take on the culture of that language, you will indeed see things through the lens of that culture. If you learn the language without taking on the culture, you'll miss the depth of the language, the people, and of course the culture because you'll be projecting your own culture/world view onto them.
    Yes, language with culture does determine how you see the world. Ask any honest modern human if he felt he'd be the same person if raised in a totally different culture and circumstance and there's a 100% chance he'll say "No, I'd be different". If you've learned a language sufficiently different from your own (think "western" language VS say, Arabic or even better Japanese, Chinese or Thai)... and you've sufficiently let go of your first culture to adopt the new one the language belongs to... You'd know the world views are distinct between the cultures/languages. What's missing in this video is that culture shapes language and culture plus language shape the minds... who under its influence contribute to maintaining and shaping the culture/language (It's a feedback loop).

    • @niviamaeva
      @niviamaeva 4 года назад +6

      I would love to read more about it. Brilliant!

    • @SnaFubar_24
      @SnaFubar_24 11 месяцев назад

      good point

  • @kymrush6722
    @kymrush6722 5 лет назад +30

    This is my fav movie. Intelligent & thoughtful. It is good to have a movie that isn't plotless & just eye candy.

    • @AshGeo
      @AshGeo 4 года назад +3

      What’s the help that they expect from humanity in 3000 years time, I mean given that they can literally control gravity, why would they ever need our help? Also if they can see their future, then why not change it from happening?
      I know that you watched the movie over a year back, but can you help me out here?

    • @wolfieaqt1415
      @wolfieaqt1415 4 года назад

      @@AshGeo me too i ask the same question what help can we do? Since these heptapods have the power to see the future etc.

    • @gauravvij137
      @gauravvij137 2 года назад +1

      @@AshGeo Also since the timeline is non linear, so the future cannot be changed. So even if heptapods get help from humanity that won't change their future. That's a plot hole right there and the heptapods just fell into that plot hole lmao

    • @egg-iu3fe
      @egg-iu3fe Год назад

      @@gauravvij137 The heptapods were facing extinction but they go to humanity and somehow humanity saves them 3 thousand years in the future. 3 thousand years is a long time for humanity to make technological advances and become a space faring species, so after 3000 years, humanity is advanced enough to help save the heptapods.
      The heptapods had to approach earth first, the way they did in the film, to even trigger the event of humanity saving them at all. If they never approached earth then humanity would never have saved them. But because time is non-linear and free will doesn't exist, all of it was predetermined, the heptapods approaching humanity, humanity saving them 3000 years later, all of it was rigged and destined to happen anyway.
      In the movie, no one has control over their destiny, not even the heptapods. That's why they were about to go extinct because even though they can see the future, they can't change the future. It's the same reason why Louise can see the future, she can see her daughter will die but she can't change it at all.
      The heptapods can look into the future and they can see there is an event that will cause their extinction but because free will doesn't exist, they can't do anything about it. So they look into the future some more and see that humans will save them so they approach earth.

  • @tobiahsellias454
    @tobiahsellias454 6 лет назад +192

    When you still don’t understand anything after watching this video

    • @davioncarvalho6890
      @davioncarvalho6890 4 года назад

      Neil Degrasse Tyson explains it well

    • @steverattle3027
      @steverattle3027 4 года назад

      hahahah

    • @Upper_echelon_exotics
      @Upper_echelon_exotics 4 года назад

      I actually got it for once! There are some movies I never understand. This fills in the holes from what I missed when playing on my phone during the movie.

  • @nick4810
    @nick4810 6 лет назад +117

    What a film. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

    • @kennayy4394
      @kennayy4394 6 лет назад

      Rayza NC Also a blade runner fan I see? :D

    • @theolamp5312
      @theolamp5312 6 лет назад +5

      +Rayza NC - One of the great things about this movie is that it makes you think. Even now, I can see all the scenes in my head. Too often I watch a movie, and a few weeks later, I can't remember anything about it.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 6 лет назад +1

      This movie forced me to change how I perceive the world around me.

    • @davidlister370
      @davidlister370 5 лет назад

      Me too, the A/C was way too low in the theater when I went go see it :(

    • @bigbysnow6306
      @bigbysnow6306 5 лет назад +1

      What a horrible film. Blade runner was bad too. The ending line is the worst ever and I love Mr Ford but he is the worst narrator ever

  • @MyplayLists4Y2Y
    @MyplayLists4Y2Y 5 лет назад +114

    One of the best movies ever made!

    • @GQ-yx5lt
      @GQ-yx5lt 3 года назад +2

      One of the complex not best

    • @michael1858
      @michael1858 3 года назад +3

      @@GQ-yx5lt one of the best is subjective. To Wenit Bewood it is one of the best, just because you don't think so doesn't mean you can tell them it's not

    • @kianhughes6309
      @kianhughes6309 3 года назад +2

      @@GQ-yx5lt Just because you say it isn’t the best doesn’t mean it isn’t the best for another person. It depends on the person’s tastes and personal preferences

    • @YonasDefarHaile
      @YonasDefarHaile 3 года назад

      Yeah

    • @nicok8203
      @nicok8203 3 года назад

      i think the best movie ever made is Deep Throat

  • @Mike-bj6xc
    @Mike-bj6xc 3 года назад

    Wow....terrific explanation, now I need to watch it again!

  • @ashrafali2535
    @ashrafali2535 4 года назад +3

    I was confused about General Sheng, but thanks for the clarification,it all makes sense now

  • @matthewweng8483
    @matthewweng8483 Год назад +5

    This is, by far, one of the clearest explanations I've come across. I caught most of the points while watching the film, but it never dawned on me that the Chinese general had learned heptapod... it perfectly explains why he helped her help him.

  • @shannonmcstormy5021
    @shannonmcstormy5021 11 месяцев назад +4

    Another way to conceptualize what happens in this movie is that the character becomes aware of all the choices she has made in life. This isn't a loss of free will, it's simply an awareness of all the choices you made in life. Additionally, the film suggests that you can make changes in the past and future, in other words, any point in your life. Louise makes the choice to have her daughter despite that she is aware that her daughter will die young. The choice that the pain of losing a child (a cataclysmic trauma) was worth experiencing her daughter, her love for her daughter, for as long as her daughter has is huge. Her making this choice for her husband is but one reason for him leaving, the pain of losing a child is too much for him, understandably.

  • @Tanavids
    @Tanavids Год назад +9

    In the short story that this film was made from "the stories of your life" - she doesn't WANT to change, either. it's just her doing what she wants to do. Part of what makes this movie so amazing to me is that louise knows she'll experience incredible pain at the loss of her child, the loss of her husband. But by then she also knows the incredible love and beauty that child will bring to her life, and it's worth it. In the short story the lack of "choice" is even more apparent, as her child doesn't die from a disease, but from an accident one can theoretically stop. But it can't be stopped because the daughter is exactly who she is, and will make the choices she needs to make.
    It's a wonderful example of our lack of free will. Our choices aren't always logical.

  • @veronika13
    @veronika13 6 лет назад

    Great video...right on time.

  • @despinastamatatos3340
    @despinastamatatos3340 6 лет назад +2

    Great movie, although confusing at times. I watched it not long ago so thanks for clearing some things up.☺

  • @hero9029
    @hero9029 4 года назад +12

    This and edge of tommorrow are my favourite 2 sci films that both explore the concept of time in similar ways

  • @partydean17
    @partydean17 6 лет назад +6

    Seriously better late than never. You guys did a good job don't be afraid to have a stab at ideas other channels might have talked about. Better than jumping on the train as it's happening like when the new season of rick and morty hits

  • @awashington8447
    @awashington8447 6 лет назад +85

    "Trash Panda" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Abebil3
      @Abebil3 6 лет назад +1

      a Washington Is... Is that better?

    • @gredangeo
      @gredangeo 5 лет назад

      No, it's worse..way worse. ;)

  • @mehranshowkat09
    @mehranshowkat09 2 года назад +9

    I like how they just don't try to blow up the aliens like every other movie

  • @tonybone1889
    @tonybone1889 6 лет назад +1

    it outsmarted me so thanks

  • @lucyb.5131
    @lucyb.5131 6 лет назад +11

    One of the best movies of all time. Profound and awesome.

  • @Osei592
    @Osei592 6 лет назад

    This movie just gave me an epiphany!! Thank u Looper!!

  • @ahmedjiman
    @ahmedjiman 4 года назад

    shang and banks conversation reminded me of LOZ when link is taught the song of storm

  • @DamageNando
    @DamageNando 6 лет назад +88

    This made me more confused of the movie than I already was

    • @tardwrangler
      @tardwrangler 5 лет назад +1

      Figured it out yet?

    • @abhishekghosh2686
      @abhishekghosh2686 4 года назад +2

      Did you figure out the story?it's been 2-3 years now😏

    • @imraginbro456789
      @imraginbro456789 2 года назад

      Did you figure it out yet?

    • @doofenshmirtz.369
      @doofenshmirtz.369 Год назад

      Figured it out yet?
      Btw I just watched this movie and theres a lotta things going on my brain right now🤯

  • @romeoashkar846
    @romeoashkar846 4 года назад +17

    I disagree with one idea from this video. This video claims that with time being "non-linear", then everything is predetermined. I choose to see this idea in a different manner. To me, time represents a loop in which everything keeps happening over and over again, with our actions and decisions changing both our future and "future-past". In the movie, Louise chooses over and over again to save the world and call the general every single time, living through the fact of losing her daughter and her husband. The fact that she saw what would or "has" happened 18 months later is due to her already saving the world in the "previous" time. If she would choose not to call the general, then, in the following "times", she would not be able to see the future in which she meets the general and wouldn't be able to save the world, nor get the same child,...etc

  • @fenixa2z936
    @fenixa2z936 Месяц назад

    I remember being in such a deep thought about life and its meaning and how I know I wasn’t here before my birth and asking myself “so where was I?” Where was my consciousness at? I literally almost blacked out going deep into the rabbit hole. Like I couldn’t fathom not having consciousness and knowing what was happening at any given time in this world even before I was here.

  • @NAUTICFILM1
    @NAUTICFILM1 4 года назад

    03:27 and onwards: well done. Thanks for this nugget.

  • @elliote7488
    @elliote7488 6 лет назад

    Great vid!

  • @thatdudeKarim
    @thatdudeKarim 6 лет назад +28

    Predetermined Non linear time doesn't mean you don't have a choice or free will in whatever you do. It just means you already KNOW whatever you will choose to do... Big difference.
    Linear & NonLinear time lines should be the same. The Only difference is In a nonlinear timeline you would have knowledge of your choices and see the results of your free will...
    Side note...
    This is how I always believed that the omi-present God in the Bible would veiw time and know all...
    It would mean the Choices we make are our own and the outcomes are our own & God just know the outcomes because He sees time differently but we in end are responsible...
    Dope movie. Lol

    • @vvv2k12
      @vvv2k12 5 лет назад +1

      god is still responsible

    • @tardwrangler
      @tardwrangler 5 лет назад

      Sounds like a robot living after predetermined programming

    • @Osei592
      @Osei592 5 лет назад

      Facts!

    • @tardwrangler
      @tardwrangler 5 лет назад +4

      Erwin Puijnen You aren’t as smart as you think you are, that’s definitely certain.

  • @MFM230
    @MFM230 5 лет назад +5

    It seems to me that Dr. Louise Banks' "choice" is not much of a choice if she knows that she loves and treasures the child despite "come what may." Loss of free choice seems even more apparent if one reflects on the bad choices one made in life. Would Adam and Eve, for example, eat the proverbial apple if they knew they would leave paradise?

  • @MorganHvidt
    @MorganHvidt 6 лет назад +154

    Better late than never I guess 😂 this was an awesome movie though

    • @fturla
      @fturla 5 лет назад +1

      According to circular time, as long as the information is anywhere on the timeline, then the data can be discerned and used anywhere else in the lifespan of the individual, civilization, or species. So being late, early, or on time doesn't seem relevant if you as an individual apply circular time. The contradiction in the movie is the aliens knew about their extinction 3000 years in the future, and that to remove that possibility, they altered human intelligence from their 'past', therefore, they acknowledge that circular time is not exclusive to the linear time discipline and thinking. Pre-determination of fate and change through sheer will are not mutually exclusive.

  • @deadstick8624
    @deadstick8624 5 лет назад +3

    In other words, the timey-whyme stuff is like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. They have to go back and set up everything that they just experienced so that what they experienced can happen just the way they experienced it.

  • @whatsupbot3507
    @whatsupbot3507 6 лет назад

    I love your vids man

  • @babyjay9434
    @babyjay9434 6 лет назад +9

    I thought i understood it before watching this .... Now i am Confused

  • @Lehmann108
    @Lehmann108 3 года назад +1

    The extreme postmodern position is that language structures our experience and that there is nothing that underlies language. A more modest position is there is an extra-linguistic reality, but we are constrained in our understanding of it because of the inherent limits of our language.

  • @joshXnovak1
    @joshXnovak1 6 лет назад +11

    There seems to be a considerable number of people who didn’t get this ending...

    • @swatisucharita674
      @swatisucharita674 4 года назад +1

      Forget about ending I didn't get the beginning or any part of the movie.

  • @Kirajpc
    @Kirajpc 6 лет назад +19

    The interpretation is incorrect in regards to time. Choice does still exist because the Hetapods come to trigger the alternate time where humanity can help save them. They need humanity because we see linear time, we are capable of both. When you see time as a flat circle, you understand your only possibilities because things feel predetermined. We can achieve more things because the outcome is not seen, it is learned, thus can be changed. This is why Louise is the Hetapods only hope. Why land so many ships, talk to the Russians if they already knew who would be able to learn their language? That is because the Hetapods don't know. The Hetapods say to the Russians "there is no time". Why even bother with this. Louise gains the ability to perceive time differently through the language. She understands her daughter will die but she chooses this future because she experiences what it feels like to be with her, to feel that love of having a child. You could take the leap that at some point she tell's Ian this truth.Overall the reason we are needed is because our brains ability to see outside the circle.

    • @brockb4452
      @brockb4452 4 года назад +3

      Joseph Cerini yea, you’re not getting it.

  • @OEFarredondo
    @OEFarredondo 4 года назад +9

    I’d write, “Got any space drugs?”

  • @taitiannaquinonez4940
    @taitiannaquinonez4940 6 лет назад

    The Giver. The very ending lil confusing to me.
    Thx for the video guys. The visions in the movie kept confusing me so I couldn’t quite get it totally.

  • @mdfkrz79
    @mdfkrz79 6 лет назад +4

    It's pretty much explained, or gives you a better idea, if you watch the extra's on the blu ray/dvd, I bought it from the playstation store and it came with extras/special features too.

  • @Itwiznayme1
    @Itwiznayme1 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you Theo lamp?.. the real story of this movie is Love.. We all have an inner drive to Love and be loved no matter what the language, this was a real good examination of the movie. So thanks for your support, Theo Lamp, have a good one.

  • @michealcormier2555
    @michealcormier2555 6 лет назад +4

    This movie almost caused the ending of my local sci-fi fan group. Much of the debate was centered on if and why she would bring a child into the world when she had knowledge she would lose her prematurely. This actually gives some further food for thought on that matter.

    • @limacatz1
      @limacatz1 6 лет назад +6

      Life is suffering and always ends in death so if we could all see the future why would any of us ever bring a person into THAT? For the experience of it and the love shared of course for whatever amount of time we have. We all have the wrong idea of death and until we stop being freaked out about it will never be able to live fully. Plus I think the bigger theme is how language and beliefs limit our perceptions, cause us to make illogical and erroneous mistakes like assuming giant squid are enemies and blowing them up. The mind filters what goes out and what comes in. Perception is so limited!

    • @steriopticon2687
      @steriopticon2687 6 лет назад

      Read the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, from which the movie is derived.

    • @fluffythewondercat
      @fluffythewondercat 5 лет назад

      Having read "Story of Your Life" (and was devastated by it) I could not see how it could ever be made into a movie.

    • @aro3275
      @aro3275 11 месяцев назад

      Its not her choice.

  • @puffrooster
    @puffrooster 9 месяцев назад

    I'm so glad no money or resources were expended to watch this.... movie; that's why I come here.

  • @pawg.c7z
    @pawg.c7z 6 лет назад

    I really needed this explanation lol

  • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
    @paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 года назад

    Excellent and very intelligent movie. Brilliant acting.

  • @NikonChicFL
    @NikonChicFL 5 лет назад +1

    🤣 going to have see this movie again. For the second time lol!! I loved the movie just got lost lol!

  • @astroch
    @astroch 6 лет назад +28

    Two years later...

    • @RictusHolloweye
      @RictusHolloweye 5 лет назад +7

      Time is irrelevant.

    • @tardwrangler
      @tardwrangler 5 лет назад +1

      @@RictusHolloweye Try using that the next time you come late to work smartass

    • @RictusHolloweye
      @RictusHolloweye 5 лет назад +2

      @@tardwrangler - Did you notice a whooshing sound as my comment went over your head?

    • @tardwrangler
      @tardwrangler 5 лет назад

      Akray Bothorda yikes

    • @mohamedadamismail4763
      @mohamedadamismail4763 4 года назад +1

      2 year after your comment

  • @sal8972
    @sal8972 2 года назад

    Thank you

  • @Augustus_Imperator
    @Augustus_Imperator 6 лет назад

    loved that movie, awesome

  • @helderalmeida2790
    @helderalmeida2790 3 года назад +3

    Well I don't mind waiting 3000 thousands years for the sequel

  • @twantv7325
    @twantv7325 8 месяцев назад

    I really couldn’t understand this movie but it was good and really had me at the end

    • @JAT_77
      @JAT_77 4 месяца назад

      If you reply me I can explain you

  • @TheRubberStudiosASMR
    @TheRubberStudiosASMR 6 лет назад +2

    I love films like this. Always amazing to rewatch and discover new things.

  • @rmduwk
    @rmduwk 5 лет назад +9

    3:05 that's what she said ;)

  • @felipecardoza9967
    @felipecardoza9967 Год назад +2

    I've wondered: I have read that a being in a higher dimension would experience non-linear time, but to us, we would only be able to see ( access) a fraction of such being, and it appears in this film that they are seeing the heptapods in our 3 dimensions, unless the "screen" is there for our benefit (to be able to interact with them in our 3 dimensions.) Thoughts, anybody?

  • @taitiannaquinonez4940
    @taitiannaquinonez4940 6 лет назад +1

    Also can u do the same with The Thing 1982 & 2011 versions

  • @Trans909
    @Trans909 4 года назад +4

    I might add a bit of a caveat, perhaps an exception to the presumptive rule of "predestination." Since our language is linear, trying to explain non-linear language is rather like trying to explain the Theory of Special Relativity' using only Euclidean geometry and basic arithmetic. An approximation can be arrived at, but the nuances aren't there. Also, we have to keep in mind that the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is NOT a proven fundamental in linguistic theory. In fact, it may be the other way around: our changing environment and the existing limitations on our cognitive abilities more likely affected the ways our various languages developed. There may be a common ground; the two positions (language determines our thinking versus environment determines our language AND our thinking) are likely interrelated; the two positions affect each other in a kind of symbiotic or synergistic relationship.
    If that's closer to the "truth"--and let me be blunt: "Truth" is very much in question these days, although I personally am firmly on the side of factual proofs in science and physics outweighing personal beliefs--then we might see the basis of the heptapod's language as a series of possibilities, not certainties. In that movie universe, we had no way of knowing if we were the ONLY species contacted by the heptapods. Were there other species? Would they have served as well to assist the heptapods three thousand years from the "now" in the movie? Were we only ONE of MANY species thus contacted?
    Insufficient data. On that point alone, we must then presume that both free will and predestination apply simultaneously. The final result may be what was intended. At least one species will acquire their perspective through learning their language and thereby 'save' them from whatever fate threatens them. In the same way, we can expect many cosmic certainties to occur; the eventual supernova of Betelgeuse, for example. But it hasn't happened yet--as far as we know--and it may not happen in the way that we expect--as far as we know. It may not happen at all--as far as we know. Therefore, in this space/time frame, we are reasonably free to act or respond as we wish--until we have incontrovertible proof that it HAS happened in the the way that we expect.
    In many important ways, the basis of the heptapod's language is a violation of Causality. An action must precede a reaction. Their language presumes that a reaction can take place without an action to precede it. That's damned difficult to prove and in fact, the universal laws of physics seem to forbid it. I say "seem" because, again, there are insufficient data to support this hypothesis.
    In the movie, Dr. Banks chose to have her child, knowing that she would eventually die of cancer because she BELIEVED that it would happen and therefore did nothing to stop it. We must also assume that she chose to ignore the early warning signs of cancer in her child and allowed it to occur--which is almost certainly why her husband left her. (I would. Wouldn't you?) Under those circumstances, she therefore succumbed to a kind of "faith" which is rather unacceptable in my opinion, somewhat like shrugging one's shoulders when we read about another atrocity in Yemen. Or Syria. Or Darfur.
    It's as fatalistic as some Asian religions and I have a problem with that. Call me a humanist if you like; I firmly believe that we must employ our free will as often as possible to prevent tragedies and correct those that have occurred or are about to occur. Shrugging one's shoulders and saying, "What will be, must be," is the ultimate cop-out and I say fuck that. It's an abrogation of our responsibility to make this world a better place, to help one another and prevent evil. If you believe that Nazis will finally gain complete control of this country or that Trump will be completely exonerated, go on to win the election, and absolutely destroy our little experiment in self-government, then that makes you my enemy and I will fight that with every breath in my body. (Please forgive the political detour, but it seemed apt in this context.) You may BELIEVE that it's inevitable. I do not. NOTHING is "inevitable" and I defy you to produce any proof of that particular hypothesis.

    • @evyordanov
      @evyordanov 4 года назад +2

      Wow 🤯

    • @wolfieaqt1415
      @wolfieaqt1415 4 года назад

      Thank u for writing this.

    • @babitarani2466
      @babitarani2466 4 года назад

      @MichelleRose imo, if we are able to see the future, we should not change anything in the present time to change our the future, you see the future, but you don't know what incident/choice in the near-future (present) would led to that future. It means it is already known and pre-determined which also means time is linear and unchangeable.

  • @vtrixter7677
    @vtrixter7677 6 лет назад +1

    You should do “BrainScan Ending Explained”

  • @redfoottttt
    @redfoottttt Год назад +1

    The phrase “Who is this child?” is the key of everything.

    • @scottcardinal6147
      @scottcardinal6147 7 месяцев назад

      Yes i suddenly realized she hasn't had the child yet

  • @armiace
    @armiace 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much for this explanation but i still don't understand lol

  • @Soulsphere001
    @Soulsphere001 3 года назад +2

    I think my only question was answered in this video, but not sure I accept the answer, in the "everything in pre-determined" section. My question is: Did Louise decide not to tell her husband about their daughter's cancer in the end? This video seems to suggest that she wouldn't be able to change her actions. Though everything is always pre-determined anyway, so it's not a big stretch to make.

  • @jacobjones5269
    @jacobjones5269 6 лет назад +6

    But it was a weapon... Excellent synopsis except for that one tiny miscue..
    The tool is a weapon.. Like fire.. Lemme explain..
    Fire can cook your food and warm your house, or kill you.. But fire also weaponized humanity, much like tilling the earth did.. It changed the game..
    The gift bestowed was most certainly a weapon, IMO..

  • @erichvonmolder9310
    @erichvonmolder9310 5 лет назад +1

    Please do the "Analyze This" next time.

  • @senpaimeo7793
    @senpaimeo7793 6 лет назад +1

    Finally 😢😢

  • @jattdachannel6652
    @jattdachannel6652 2 года назад +1

    this is a movie that mind blows even more than nolans movies

  • @dannyphantom894
    @dannyphantom894 10 месяцев назад

    The gift was humanity finally working together and ending wars. The trade off was learning the Alien language and helping them in the future.
    The wife dying words was “there are no winners in war only widows”

  • @Loukoumakias
    @Loukoumakias 6 лет назад +11

    What were you using for uploading this video? Internet Explorer?

    • @Loukoumakias
      @Loukoumakias 4 года назад

      @@AtomicSuperior, yes after 2 years I still reply. I really don't remember why I said that. Maybe it's bacuase the video was uploaded in 2018 and the movie was released in 2016.

  • @MrHogshark
    @MrHogshark 6 лет назад

    The use of a graph in a large analogy .. can be very useful

  • @ymyr1
    @ymyr1 5 лет назад +5

    The Hungarian pronunciation for "racoon" is actually "moshó-medve" (washing bear) : )

    • @Mike-bj6xc
      @Mike-bj6xc 3 года назад

      In Dutch "was bear".

  • @anshgupta6986
    @anshgupta6986 4 года назад +3

    Well well well, a true masterpiece.
    Someone asking to me how was the movie “Arrival”?

  • @christopherboykin5242
    @christopherboykin5242 6 лет назад

    Loved this movie

  • @DopedFiend
    @DopedFiend 6 лет назад

    What an amazing movie.

  • @jontechie
    @jontechie 6 лет назад +5

    Quite weird, I was just thinking about this movie yesterday

  • @MeetFluence
    @MeetFluence 3 года назад +1

    This is exactly like Dark
    In which to understand the series we need to understand hypothesis about everything is predetermined so this is almost same just the difference is in Dark he time travels and in Arrival she has visions

  • @whatsupbot3507
    @whatsupbot3507 6 лет назад

    Keep it up

  • @bahaadeenal-ees1488
    @bahaadeenal-ees1488 6 лет назад

    Great movies

  • @sanketdabade
    @sanketdabade 6 лет назад

    Superb explanation! Spot on!

  • @princejoseph9936
    @princejoseph9936 4 года назад +1

    Kollam..pwoli padam
    I'll tell u one thing anywayz..."Olla kiliyum pooyikittum"🤣😍

  • @xoreign
    @xoreign 6 лет назад

    Amazing movie.

  • @nick3xtremegaming212
    @nick3xtremegaming212 5 лет назад

    Tbh the rules of space time don't change because you vocalize differently, neither does your perception of time for time is a metaphorical line and any action will change the future, but the size of the changes can only equal that of the action, small actions create small or unnoticed consequence, whilst big actions can make the future unrecognizable.

  • @TMIDiva
    @TMIDiva 6 лет назад

    I suppose the only positive about predetermination is that we can relax when facing our most frustrating struggles. In other words, the confluence of faith (a belief that all struggles have a purpose) and science (there is an answer, but it will be proven by repeatable evidence). I really enjoy mulling over the potential of interaction amongst our extraterrestrials. Language will in deed be our biggest obstacle. The trick with all of these stories is that we need to keep them in the "fiction" category. For now.

  • @timsexton
    @timsexton Год назад

    This movie caught me off-guard in such a way that water ran down my face leading up to the conclusion.
    *_TRUST !!_*

  • @puzava
    @puzava 6 лет назад +49

    this episode hurt my brain ='(

    • @jlrockafella
      @jlrockafella 6 лет назад

      If you're an atheist then it makes perfect sense even though it's a bunch of non-sense. If you believe in free will then there's a God. If you don't then according to Sam Harris, you are an atheist.

    • @puzava
      @puzava 6 лет назад

      lol funny thing is i'm a christian & while this episode DOSE hurt my brain & its been quite a while since i watched this movie & don't remember too much about it i DO remember it making perfect sense. IRL i believe in god & every single word the bible says. but i ALSO absolutely LOVE a good story, i guess that's what drew me to the bible to begin with, possibly why i understood the movie? i dunno until this video i didn't know it was confusing but it makes it so for me lol.

    • @taitiannaquinonez4940
      @taitiannaquinonez4940 6 лет назад

      Chris White same 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @vancouverpoacher
    @vancouverpoacher Год назад

    Loved the movie but explanation lacked. Lots of comments on the General already but the most profound aspect of the movie was Louise's choice. She chooses her daughter despite her knowledge of the loss. That is an incredible aspect of the movie... chooses love and understanding impermanence of loved ones. This choice is radical different take than the book's version

  • @shaneroper5470
    @shaneroper5470 Год назад

    Louise has weapon.
    USE weapon.
    Weapon = ability.

  • @faridahossni3924
    @faridahossni3924 3 года назад +2

    But how does she tell ian “i just realized why my husband left me” (or something like that)
    How was she married when she was still going to get married to ian? It was pretty clear that her daughter, husband are still going to show up, she didn’t experience any of that so how did she loose her “husband”?

    • @dominicdonnelly6733
      @dominicdonnelly6733 3 года назад +3

      I know this may be a bit late but she knows she loses ian because in an earlier flash forward her daughter goes on about her father leaving them and it just being them 2, which means she was aware he left but not why, it wasnt until the flashforward at the end when he says that to ian that she understood the reason.

  • @LifetimeTravelmates
    @LifetimeTravelmates 5 лет назад +1

    Haha! After years not hearing the word, it came to my mind that in my native language (Catalan), a raccoon is called "ós rentador" = washing bear. How cute!
    Great movie! Gotta watch again!
    Anyone read the book? How is it?

  • @rexlongfellow
    @rexlongfellow 6 лет назад +119

    A bit early, innit?

    • @MOBROOKS
      @MOBROOKS 6 лет назад +31

      Or late,
      Or right on time,
      Or super early,
      Did you not learn anything from this video?
      Hahaha

    • @Zainpthn
      @Zainpthn 6 лет назад

      No shit Sherlock

    • @Diadras
      @Diadras 6 лет назад +6

      Doesnt matter if you speak heptopod

    • @zef3k
      @zef3k 6 лет назад

      may be

  • @hodabi
    @hodabi 6 лет назад +6

    I love when non-hungarian speekers try to speak hungarian :) nobody would understand if he would say "mosómedve" like that here

  • @iamrubenmes
    @iamrubenmes Год назад

    I feel their take on non-linear time is limited by just opening up your own life time, instead of going full Singularity and being everywhere at anytimr in the same moment.