yes...I thank god for not knowing nothing about this movie before I watched. I had it in my list for so long cause I love dennis villenueve...missed it at the movies for various reasons... Cried like a baby when I finally watched it...alone at home one night.
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
Despite knowing the heartbreak that will come from Hannah dying and Ian divorcing her, Louise still felt that having the two of them in her life is worth all that. It's deeply emotional.
GordonFreechmen 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
When Louise said "I forgot how good it felt to be held by you", it was so romantic and heartbreaking. Because it was actually the first time she hugged Ian, but she could already feel how much she missed being hugged by him.
It’s like seeing things the way Louise sees. When already knew what the title of the movie was in the beginning and we are simply reminded of it at the end as if it was the first time seeing it.
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
Your daughter rests in a better place, I am sure of it. I wish you the very best, I hope you cherish the memories you have of her forever and you will one day be reunited with her, in a much better place than this. Love
That final moment when she decided to accept Ian´s love and at the same time to make a baby, she knew how everything would start and end. She embraced a start and an end at the very same time...so deep I just cannot handle it..
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
@@vijant1395 I'm so, so sorry for your Loss man. I truly am. I'm happy that there's a film that you can relate to. You have the love and support to go through the pain mate. I mean fuck it, I fucking love you dude. Take care, have a good life, and know that she's always with you
Jon 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life.
All I want to know is why a palindrome isn’t one And why a portmanteau also isn’t one Ditto why phonetically isn’t spelt “fonetikally” or something Kills me KILLS ME Cheers
Beautiful movie. Most people would think the title Arrival means arrival of the aliens, but it is a reference to the arrival of her daughter. This movie is about how a mother deals with the death of a child, much like Gravity.
I think the movie has too many facets to put one label on it. In my opinion, it was alway about perspective and how we change depending on our situation. ruclips.net/video/z18LY6NME1s/видео.html Nerdwriter1 did a great vid about it.
I mean I'd say it's a little more complicated then that because of the language and time travel aspect of it. She knows exactly what is going to happen in her life and that's what it's truly about (in my opinion). She knows that she's going to wind up alone with her daughter dying prematurely and her husband leaving and it's about how she deals with all of that.
I have another version, so doctor benks wants to look forward, he wants to know when they decide to have a baby in the future where that baby is hannah. Doctor Benks finally found out when they decided they wanted to have children when she said "yes" in the future. From there the audience can make a conclusion, whether Doctor Benks still wants to give birth to Hannah even though in the end she dies or avoids the birth of Hannah and decides to have a baby at another time. Because Doctor Benks already knew the time and day they made babies (Hannah) *sorry, im use Google translate, can't speak english very well
If you want to listen to the whole song, it's called 'On the Nature of Daylight' by Max Richter. He's done some phenomenal work, but this one is outstanding even between the gems.
my man has cancer and he asks me the other day if I "regret meeting" him. It reminded me of this... all the good times, by far, outweigh the bad even knowing how it ends... my answer was a simple "no, because any day with you is a day better than without" this scene still tears me up because I know how it ends and i still would choose it all over again for these good moments i have left with him...
I lost my son to cancer when he was only six years old. This movie helped me in the most profound way. If I had to do it all over again I would. Just so I can spend the little time I had with him.
Beautiful. Bless you. So sorry for your loss, but overjoyed you got to spend time with him. For sure life is all about the earth shattering beauty of connection and love.
I believe this movie, scene and song helped tons of people all over the world. It helped me through a divorce. Losing my wife and stepdaughter were one of the hardest things I ever had to face but after seeing this movie and hearing this song I felt my life being pulled in a different direction. It Def saved me...that's for sure.
You know what I find so fascinating about this movie? Most movies involving precognition or time travel have one of two options: either you physically can't change what happens even if you try, or you can and it makes messing with time near useless due to the infinite possibilities. This is the only story I've ever seen the argument that even if you could change the future based on what you know, you /wouldn't/. Rather than having no choice or too many choices, it argues that humans would choose to keep the future as-is, pain, pleasure and all. I've never seen that argument anywhere else.
Ive gone through that sort of thought process alot for decades and the older i get the more i dwell on it. Ive had some pretty hard things happen in my life (to others they might be trivial but for me personally and emotionally they hit me hard.. real hard), these things and a strong imagination have made me wish I could go back and change them, make them better or tweak things in order to get a good out come for me at that time or make my present better... but when I think about those moments every time and how they would change everything that happened after them, and every bit of good i had from then to now would have never happened I basically go... I guess I shouldnt change them, since what I know is better than what i dont. If you know your life from start to finish both the good and bad, then the thought of giving up the good you know to avoid the bad you know and in doing so have a completely new unknown set of good and bad is to frightening. So i think if faced with the choice, most if not all people would choose to keep it unchanged... especially when you start to realise that by changing your future you also might be changing someone else's and in doing so robbing them of the good and bad they know.
I've seen this choice in two other places. No three. The first three seasons of Misfits. And in Watchmen and Predistination. Misfits is my favorite of that bunch.
@@djsosonut Haven't seen Misfits (I know, I keep meaning to) and haven't seen Watchmen in years so I can't remember it that well, but in Predestination, wasn't it not really their choice? They were controlled by the time corps or whatever, made to be a self-contained paradox. They didn't control their future, they just did what they were made to. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
@@julesfoster3289 They were controlled by themselves. Pretty much every step of the way. They grew up as an orphan. They fell in love and got left. Time made them lose their feminity, then they would guide themselves back as a male to fall in love with themselves. And take themselves back in time as a child to do the process all over again. Only thing that disrupts the movie from perfection is the extra bit it adds about them becoming a crazed killer. That's not part of the original short story: All You Zombies. The story should've ended with them excepting who they are - mother, father, daughter, the doctor that preformed the c-section to bring them into the word, guide that lead them on this journey - and how they came to be. And embracing every part of it. "I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?" Watchmen was mainly Jon. Dr Manhattan. Who experiences every moment of his life simultaneously. So he can see himself telling one woman that he'll love her forever, even as his arms are around his new love, and he sees himself losing her too. "We're all puppets. I'm just one that can see the strings." Yet again the comic is better. Misfits is great. The point I'm referencing isn't perfectly executed. At least structurally there are a few hiccups. But on a character and thematic level it is beyond perfection. And it'll stick with you for years after.
This is how I interpreted this ending: Louise mastered the aliens language which allowed her to see time the way they do, in a non-linear fashion. She can’t change her future because she has already experienced it. She always knew that Hannah would die very young, you can see she was scared when she was looking at baby Hannah. Louise knows what her future holds but she “embraces it” as the pain of losing Hannah is less painful than the idea that she never exists. She sees her future in this scene and understands she’s already made the decision to have Hannah. Hannah and Ian always “come back” because, past and future mean nothing to her anymore. It doesn’t matter what has happened or will happen, she has already experienced it. To her, Hannah’s life is a circle, she experiences the joy of having her and the pain of losing her simultaneously. It says something about life. It’s not about the outcome, it’s the journey you experience along the way.
For some reason, I've always thought Louise had dreams of Hannah even before the Visitors arrived. In some way, we are able to see the future like them, in a non-linear way, and we have a partial vision of the future until Louise masters their language.
“I forgot how good it was to be held by you” keep in mind when she said that they didn’t even start dating yet or anything. She already felt what it was to be loved n held by him bec of her gift.
Beautifully put..I would add however, that i do beleive it is possible to change the future. One of the key points is that she chose not to. The aliens did this when they landed also.
I just noticed that in both timelines of this scene, the color of the sky and the light makes us wonder if we're at dusk or dawn, at the beginning or the end of a day. It's a very clever way of reinforcing visually what the protagonist must feel: the choice of considering the events to come either as a fatality (she knows her daughter is condemned to die), an ending, or as a beginning, the start of a beautiful journey with her husband and daughter.
See how she knocks on the window to call for Ian.. just like the aliens knocking the window in the spaceship to call out for her. Her window and the one at the spaceship represent the same thing, a window to the future.
Lots of smart people in the comments. I’m picking up a lot of details I would have missed. This film is so rich you get something new every time you see it.
I'm a father, I feel so lucky to not knowing where my child's life lead, but I will embrace n welcome every moment of it. And I will tell my feelings more often
muhammad hudi 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
@J B and that’s the power of love…there isn’t a logical answer to this. It’s a motion that will never confront us but what the scene was trying to depict is that love is such a powerful force you want to experience it again and again…and that love…real love will give you the strength to accept hardship and loss too…
I completely stunt by the ending. The whole story leads to the end which ends up being the beginning. Just like her daughter name and aliens language - a circular.
You know...this hidden meaning also applies to our lives..A person is born out of the world..growing up towards death..Finally came to death but his/her children inherit their parent's things and proceed with their life based on what they've received from their parents..Over numerous years, Humanity did it, and do it, and will do it. That is why we call it life "cycle"..
But why? Lol. If everyone dies, then nothing matters. We are just a bunch of psychos bringing dying beings into the world, giving birth to children knowing they are going to die just so WE can feel some love for awhile before we die and leave them here to grieve us...wtf. Love is a beautiful thing, but it dies with us, end of story.
@@ARock437no, I don't want to feel any pain. It sucks, there's no reason for it. I lost my dad when I was 10, my mom when I was 21 and just a year and half ago, my only sister. And I'm still grieving for my sister, grief just sucks!
It's not very easy to understand but in the end scene everything becomes clear and you realize it is one of the most beautiful movies of history. So powerful
I’m having just a little problem understanding exactly how the timeline pans out, care to explain to me? Because to me the relationship and Hannah comes after the whole alien thing, but then she says things like “I forgot how it felt to hug you” just as the aliens leave, but also before the actual relationship and Hannah? I know you wrote your comment 2 years ago but maybe you can explain it to me anyways haha
@@OrreBorree After I read your comment I've been thinking a lot about your question but actually I can't answer 🙃🙃 I watched the movie many years ago and I don't remember that detail I'm sorry :(
@@OrreBorree she sees the future , she knew what was gonna happen and when she told the husband about the daughter dying he divorce her, alien said Louise sees future
I forgot how it felt to be held by you..... got me. You can feel the love and dispite knowing her future she still wanna do it all with him. True love.
He’d say what he feels more often. He values honesty and openness. Which makes perfect sense as to why he’d be so devastated and leave her when he found out she’d been keeping her true thoughts secret from him since the beginning
This is late but... he left her not because she's been keeping it for so long and told him just now, but because she told him at all. He wasn't prepared about that news.
It's implied that the future “memory” Louise experiences when he says that line (a tipsy future-Louise stumbling toward future-Ian holding a wine glass) is the moment when she tells him her secret despite knowing full well that she's about to provoke him into leaving her, and future-Louise is recalling this past statement by Ian as she prepares herself to tell him anyway.
The power of love and hugs, "...I forgot how good it felt to be held by you..." Mind blowing movie, sentimental, powerful, great music, well written, perfect :)
Ian’s quote in this scene is so profound. He’s always wondered about extraterrestrial life, but when he actually got the chance to meet them, it was nothing compared to meeting Louise
actually, that is partially true. Most of the music was composed by Johann Johannsson, who did pass away. However, the music playing for this ending scene was composed by Max Richter, and is entitled "On the Nature of Daylight". Fortunately, Max Richter is still alive.
This movie was about ourselves and meaning of life, aliens was just a metaphor about the unknown realm we try to seek , but when we forget to enjoy existence of everything around us right now
It is so hard for me to write this, but. My mother passed away a week ago by a heart attack. She was young and happy and dancing when it happened. My heart is full of grief and sorrow. But I'm proud that me and my brother and my mother lived a life full of love. Rest in peace Mom. I'll always love you.
Wonderful editing in this scene. In particular, I love the match cutting at 3:52 and 3:58 - like Louise's hug with Ian transported her to another similar moment in time, "reminding" her how good it felt to be held by him.
You wont be able to watch this again for the first time, but maybe you can invite others to watch it for the first time with you, and you can live vicariously through them :)
1:01 I've always been fascinated by this shot. The use of focus...it seems like Louise's husband is some sort of alien...which he did in fact become. Dennis Villenueve's stamp on his films is the visual poetry. Every shot has a lot of meanings.
Tbh, I don’t really think that change was even possible. If you think about it, Banks doesn’t SEE the future. She’s experiencing it, whether she’s in the present or past. Time isn’t linear in this “language”. When she kept having “visions” they weren’t really visions because they already happened. Banks is basically living in a spectrum. Where past, present and future are all one.
I wept so loudly in the movie theatre when she said yes to having the baby that my then wife had to squeeze my hand and rub my back. I've never been sooo touched by a film.
José Gómez 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
This is the best example ever of a film with a seemingly large-scale, high concept plot that ends up being a deeply intimate and small story about something beautiful yet tragic.
The movie is kind of confusing and hard to follow, especially if you’re not paying attention. But the way this scene wrapped everything up together in such an emotional and satisfying manner, makes the entire film worth it. When I tell you I cried.....
Obviously not the same thing, but I lost my kid sister 10 years ago in a car accident. She was 17. I'm 31 now and the pain hasn't really gone away much but I valued the time we had together. We are a very close family, Me, my 3 brothers and my parents. I don't think any of us have really gotten over it but we try day by day.
My wife and I had our first baby boy then watched this movie a week later. We don’t know what will come of our boy but we will live and savor every moment of our child’s precious life.
During a visit to Italy I was told that great cinema defines a a society's culture. My Italian friends asked me if there were any great Canadian film makers. I introduced them to Denis Villeneuve.
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The most painful film ending ever. I felt desperate and exploded. Wept and sobbed like never before.
Dude sometimes I get these nihilistic thoughts and then I watch something like this, there I am grateful to have been born just to feel something like this. True beauty and brilliance from Villanveua
“You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.” This got to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen/heard in my life. I feel like crying just by reading it. The guy literally says he was more fascinated about meeting her than the aliens! Oh gosh, this is so beautiful.
...and right before he said that, he said how he would "maybe say what I feel more often..." He hesitates before saying the line that you quoted. Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but he thought about what he said (saying how he feels), and he went for it. He went against what he would usually do. Beautiful movie!
I feel this way about my heartbreak. I never felt that way with anyone else. The happiest experiences I've had were with her. I'd have married her if we would've gotten through things. She didn't want to be together anymore so we broke up. Felt absolutely shattered by it. The wish of never having met her so I wouldn't have to miss her so much crossed my mind, but I realised I wouldn't want it. All the memories I have with her are priceless and eventhough I can't be in them anymore I'll have had them and that's enough. And Im grateful that in those moments I cherished them, I knew they wouldn't be forever. I'd do it all over again knowing I'd have to go through the same pain of losing her.
My mom passed away on march 21. The pain is almost unberable. It feels like a part of my body is missing. But still, even if I knew how everything would hapening, I would still choose to be your daughter and live with you for 25 years of my life. Mom, I love you so much. Everyday I feel like someone is gona come and say you are coming back home. I wanna be with you so bad.
The plot twist of the film is astounding. She still decided to go through marriage, starting a family, etc., knowing that her baby would die and that her husband would leave. Even if her happiness was brief, she would cherish it as opposed to having no happiness.
I have an autistic son. If I could see my future from start to end, I too would not like to change anything. I could relate to this feeling and emotion of being with your loved ones, and take every single opportunity to live my life with them again despite pain, suffering and pleasure.
You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you. What a scene!♥️♥️♥️
for those who don't know, the song is called "on the nature of daylight" by German composer Max Richter. hes brilliant, this song is brilliant. really great artist
I watched this movie without any prior knowledge of it. It was recommended to me by a friend. I noticed that its genre was listed as science fiction, so I expected an action movie like Edge of Tomorrow or Elysium. I was so wrong and I am glad I watched it without expecting or knowing anything.
The fact the daughters name is a palindrome is such a clever nod to the future events. Beautiful and brilliant film from the best director out there right now
"You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you”
I love this movie. I understand why she wanted to live her life the same despite the profound loss she would experience. But oh my I felt sad for Ian. Reflecting on the movie made me empathise with him, especially for leaving. I understand it deeply. To him, she had the opportunity to prevent his pain. Instead of seeing the daughter a gift like she does, he sees what she knew as being complicit in causing his ultimate pain. She let him grow attached to this child and love her, fully knowing that one day he would have to experience the most extreme loss a parent can ever feel. Though I’m sure he loves his child profoundly, for some people it does become hard to look at someone and love them without it HURTING... knowing you are going to lose them. So on one hand, I love her decision to keep life as it is and love her daughter fully. She had that decision. But at the end of the day, she took that decision from him. She took HIS choice to choose whether to feel the passion and life that was Hannah and experience ultimate pain, or change life for another child or no child at all. If neither of them knew this would come, it’d seem like an unfortunate and terribly sad set of circumstances. But because she knew and had a choice, that pain feels purposeful. In a way, she is kind of the cause of his pain. He has no choice but to continue on with life knowing he will suffer this devastating loss. Really, she should never have told him or told him before they had a child and consciously make that decision TOGETHER. Instead, she led him towards sadness. And geez that realisation KILLS me.
You’re thinking in linear time and so is he. Louise no longer even exists in linear time because she knows the language. That’s the gift the aliens gave. So although her daughter will die, Louise can live in every moment that they shared together.
Maybe this is one reason why the aliens describe it as a “weapon” - because aside from using it for parlor tricks like calling a high-ranking Chinese general on his personal cell phone to tell him his wife's dying words, Louise's trajectory also demonstrates how it can be a powerful tool of emotional manipulation against anyone who isn't also armed with it, and can be used to cause them the most profound sort of pain imaginable.
Going into this movie blind was the best thing that’s ever happened to me
yes...I thank god for not knowing nothing about this movie before I watched.
I had it in my list for so long cause I love dennis villenueve...missed it at the movies for various reasons...
Cried like a baby when I finally watched it...alone at home one night.
I did know that the aliens language had something to do with time but i forgot what it was.... then the twist hit
You shouldn’t approach a movie like this drunk
YES
Yeah :)
Everyone who searched for “the arrival last scene” you’re human. It makes sense to cry.
thank you for this
Thank you, sometimes I come here just to cry lol
Wow such a comment! Greetings from a stranger!
Woww you just stole my heart away buddy❤
do every time i watch it, and it is always YES, wouldnt trade a moment of pain for anything, even pain is a gift
Arrival is a film that makes you just sit quietly at the end and review your own life.
Same
True
So true
Damn right
Best comment made on this movie 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏👌Well done
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it."
this is so sweet yet so sad
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
I wish I could say the same about my journey!
Yuo
The most mature science fiction film in recent years.
Frank Messely this and Blade Runner 2099 had me floored. This director definitely does Sci Fi with his heart in it.
it was amazing
@@morganbrown8538 and that director + Hans Zimmer are about to give us a new Dune movie
Very true!
@@motwitch6374 + Roger Deakins cinematography ❤️❤️❤️
Despite knowing the heartbreak that will come from Hannah dying and Ian divorcing her, Louise still felt that having the two of them in her life is worth all that. It's deeply emotional.
GordonFreechmen 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
It is. I think that Hannah also had some happy years and that was another reason why Louise acted as she did.
@@vijant1395 thank you for this
@@vijant1395 🧢
💯💯💯
When Louise said "I forgot how good it felt to be held by you", it was so romantic and heartbreaking. Because it was actually the first time she hugged Ian, but she could already feel how much she missed being hugged by him.
Everything about this ending was phenomenal
it's the age old saying "is it better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all."
I never realized that part. There’s so many small things I had to break down even after I finished the movie
@@Soggy_Potato21duuude same. i really pondered the end for a long while to make sure i got it all without missing anything, even small details
The fact that we never see the title of the film until the very end. This subtle detail is just so brilliant.
Oh wow, how did I never realize that? Thank you.
Bob Buchko 👍🏼
It’s like seeing things the way Louise sees. When already knew what the title of the movie was in the beginning and we are simply reminded of it at the end as if it was the first time seeing it.
So maybe arrival means not just the Aliens coming to Earth, but arriving at a moment in time or Arrival of her daughter.
Still finding nuggets in 2021
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
Truly moving, thank you.
Your daughter rests in a better place, I am sure of it. I wish you the very best, I hope you cherish the memories you have of her forever and you will one day be reunited with her, in a much better place than this. Love
Hugging my 1 year old a little tighter today. I wish you nothing but good and grace.
I wish you the best of everything. Your daughter shall Rest In Peace
Your explanation was so amazing.
That final moment when she decided to accept Ian´s love and at the same time to make a baby, she knew how everything would start and end. She embraced a start and an end at the very same time...so deep I just cannot handle it..
4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
@@vijant1395 I'm so, so sorry for your Loss man. I truly am. I'm happy that there's a film that you can relate to. You have the love and support to go through the pain mate. I mean fuck it, I fucking love you dude. Take care, have a good life, and know that she's always with you
So did she knew about the future? Ive not seen the movie can any one explain
@@akhilkumar3090 watch it. It really worth it. I won't spoil it for you :)
she commited a highly immoral action, this moral dilemma is the whole point of the film philosophically
The soundtrack does 75% of the job making this ending so emotional
I know right. It’s so perfect. It really ties everything together
It's a good soundtrack but damn her words hit hard aswell
Ever seen shutter island? It's the same music
It is very effective but knowing the meaning of the story is what crushes me...
Jóhann Jóhannsson is eternal! R.I.P.
"If you could see you're whole life from start to finish, would you change things?" What a beautiful compelling line
Jon 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life.
@@vijant1395 Amazing words. I'm so sorry for your loss and I wish nothing but good things for you in this life
what does Ian replied afterwards? Ive already replayed it multiple times and I cant really understand it 😭
@@rozemynemetherlence1840 he said "maybe i would say what i feel more aften"
I found this to be very profound, but honestly I would change nearly everything about my life after I turned 13.
Hannah is hannah backwards. Like the language. Circular. No start, no end. Wow
palindrome
a palindrome
Now every time sometime points out my name does this.... I’m gonna say that 😎
@@Anna-ug8cq so cool
All I want to know is why a palindrome isn’t one
And why a portmanteau also isn’t one
Ditto why phonetically isn’t spelt “fonetikally” or something
Kills me
KILLS ME
Cheers
Beautiful movie. Most people would think the title Arrival means arrival of the aliens, but it is a reference to the arrival of her daughter. This movie is about how a mother deals with the death of a child, much like Gravity.
Brad Taulbee my two fav films of all time
Me too!!! 😭
It was based on the short story "The Story of Your Life"
I think the movie has too many facets to put one label on it. In my opinion, it was alway about perspective and how we change depending on our situation. ruclips.net/video/z18LY6NME1s/видео.html Nerdwriter1 did a great vid about it.
I mean I'd say it's a little more complicated then that because of the language and time travel aspect of it. She knows exactly what is going to happen in her life and that's what it's truly about (in my opinion). She knows that she's going to wind up alone with her daughter dying prematurely and her husband leaving and it's about how she deals with all of that.
A pretty underrated film in my eyes, most people I’ve talked too haven’t seen it , the ones who have love it !
I've seen it 10 times.
true, but it was nominated for best picture
Its not underrated at all.
it made 8x its budget and got 95% critic approval.
It’s too smart for the average movie goers. If it ain’t monsters fighting each other or superhero movies it’s underrated.
That doesn't mean it's underrated, it's just overlooked.
She let her daughter be born because her Arrival was more important than her Departure.
This is why she said "yes" to Ian..Such a masterpiece
Interstellar, Contact and Arrival top 3 movie of all time
I have another version, so doctor benks wants to look forward, he wants to know when they decide to have a baby in the future where that baby is hannah. Doctor Benks finally found out when they decided they wanted to have children when she said "yes" in the future. From there the audience can make a conclusion, whether Doctor Benks still wants to give birth to Hannah even though in the end she dies or avoids the birth of Hannah and decides to have a baby at another time. Because Doctor Benks already knew the time and day they made babies (Hannah)
*sorry, im use Google translate, can't speak english very well
So…so…succinctly said.
Word. -C
I love you
The violin is almost crying over the scene.
Its beautiful
If you want to listen to the whole song, it's called 'On the Nature of Daylight' by Max Richter. He's done some phenomenal work, but this one is outstanding even between the gems.
@@combatwombat2134 it's in Shutter island too
@@angelaalexander6146 oh, really? I haven't seen that, unfortunately.
@@combatwombat2134 you should. Starring leo DiCaprio directed by Martin Scorsese and mystery movie with good background music 😊
my man has cancer and he asks me the other day if I "regret meeting" him. It reminded me of this... all the good times, by far, outweigh the bad even knowing how it ends... my answer was a simple "no, because any day with you is a day better than without" this scene still tears me up because I know how it ends and i still would choose it all over again for these good moments i have left with him...
I hope you and your husband are okay... 🙏❤
Oh my...
Oh... que comentário lindo. Espero que vc tenha vivido belos momentos
I shouldn't cry over a RUclips comment
2:02 the moment she realised that Ian is her ex-husband and Hannah's father. There is such sadness in her eyes. Marvelous work by Ms Adams
@Luc Germain Beautiful
Because by this point she could see time as non linear, so she already knows what she will experience in the future
This and Interestellar, best sci fi movies of 21st century, and two definitive movies of decade
No Inception?
This and ex machina *
Inception too!
Totally!!
Hablemos de YES!!!!! My favorite two movies ever
I lost my son to cancer when he was only six years old. This movie helped me in the most profound way. If I had to do it all over again I would. Just so I can spend the little time I had with him.
Beautiful. Bless you. So sorry for your loss, but overjoyed you got to spend time with him. For sure life is all about the earth shattering beauty of connection and love.
:( so sorry to hear this.
I believe this movie, scene and song helped tons of people all over the world. It helped me through a divorce. Losing my wife and stepdaughter were one of the hardest things I ever had to face but after seeing this movie and hearing this song I felt my life being pulled in a different direction. It Def saved me...that's for sure.
I am so sorry. We lost my cousin in the same way, at the same age. It was a blessing to have known him 🙏
I never cried this hard reading youtube comments. Wishing you all the best in life.
You know what I find so fascinating about this movie? Most movies involving precognition or time travel have one of two options: either you physically can't change what happens even if you try, or you can and it makes messing with time near useless due to the infinite possibilities. This is the only story I've ever seen the argument that even if you could change the future based on what you know, you /wouldn't/. Rather than having no choice or too many choices, it argues that humans would choose to keep the future as-is, pain, pleasure and all. I've never seen that argument anywhere else.
Ive gone through that sort of thought process alot for decades and the older i get the more i dwell on it. Ive had some pretty hard things happen in my life (to others they might be trivial but for me personally and emotionally they hit me hard.. real hard), these things and a strong imagination have made me wish I could go back and change them, make them better or tweak things in order to get a good out come for me at that time or make my present better... but when I think about those moments every time and how they would change everything that happened after them, and every bit of good i had from then to now would have never happened I basically go... I guess I shouldnt change them, since what I know is better than what i dont. If you know your life from start to finish both the good and bad, then the thought of giving up the good you know to avoid the bad you know and in doing so have a completely new unknown set of good and bad is to frightening.
So i think if faced with the choice, most if not all people would choose to keep it unchanged... especially when you start to realise that by changing your future you also might be changing someone else's and in doing so robbing them of the good and bad they know.
that's the exact same argument in the bible ...
I've seen this choice in two other places. No three. The first three seasons of Misfits. And in Watchmen and Predistination. Misfits is my favorite of that bunch.
@@djsosonut Haven't seen Misfits (I know, I keep meaning to) and haven't seen Watchmen in years so I can't remember it that well, but in Predestination, wasn't it not really their choice? They were controlled by the time corps or whatever, made to be a self-contained paradox. They didn't control their future, they just did what they were made to. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
@@julesfoster3289 They were controlled by themselves. Pretty much every step of the way. They grew up as an orphan. They fell in love and got left. Time made them lose their feminity, then they would guide themselves back as a male to fall in love with themselves. And take themselves back in time as a child to do the process all over again. Only thing that disrupts the movie from perfection is the extra bit it adds about them becoming a crazed killer. That's not part of the original short story: All You Zombies. The story should've ended with them excepting who they are - mother, father, daughter, the doctor that preformed the c-section to bring them into the word, guide that lead them on this journey - and how they came to be. And embracing every part of it. "I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?"
Watchmen was mainly Jon. Dr Manhattan. Who experiences every moment of his life simultaneously. So he can see himself telling one woman that he'll love her forever, even as his arms are around his new love, and he sees himself losing her too. "We're all puppets. I'm just one that can see the strings." Yet again the comic is better.
Misfits is great. The point I'm referencing isn't perfectly executed. At least structurally there are a few hiccups. But on a character and thematic level it is beyond perfection. And it'll stick with you for years after.
This is how I interpreted this ending:
Louise mastered the aliens language which allowed her to see time the way they do, in a non-linear fashion. She can’t change her future because she has already experienced it.
She always knew that Hannah would die very young, you can see she was scared when she was looking at baby Hannah. Louise knows what her future holds but she “embraces it” as the pain of losing Hannah is less painful than the idea that she never exists. She sees her future in this scene and understands she’s already made the decision to have Hannah.
Hannah and Ian always “come back” because, past and future mean nothing to her anymore. It doesn’t matter what has happened or will happen, she has already experienced it. To her, Hannah’s life is a circle, she experiences the joy of having her and the pain of losing her simultaneously.
It says something about life. It’s not about the outcome, it’s the journey you experience along the way.
For some reason, I've always thought Louise had dreams of Hannah even before the Visitors arrived. In some way, we are able to see the future like them, in a non-linear way, and we have a partial vision of the future until Louise masters their language.
“I forgot how good it was to be held by you” keep in mind when she said that they didn’t even start dating yet or anything. She already felt what it was to be loved n held by him bec of her gift.
This is seriously the most perfect interpretation in this whole comment section, beautifully said dude.
@@MelquiIamcan't tell if she said that in the future scene or present one and both of them adds up and makes sense.
Beautifully put..I would add however, that i do beleive it is possible to change the future. One of the key points is that she chose not to.
The aliens did this when they landed also.
I just noticed that in both timelines of this scene, the color of the sky and the light makes us wonder if we're at dusk or dawn, at the beginning or the end of a day. It's a very clever way of reinforcing visually what the protagonist must feel: the choice of considering the events to come either as a fatality (she knows her daughter is condemned to die), an ending, or as a beginning, the start of a beautiful journey with her husband and daughter.
Its night bro...shes drinking wine lmao
That’s clever
everyone is condemned to die
@@FantasyYeetI can drink wine whenever I want TBH I'm just different
This made me cry
Calm down
See how she knocks on the window to call for Ian.. just like the aliens knocking the window in the spaceship to call out for her. Her window and the one at the spaceship represent the same thing, a window to the future.
Damn. True.
Great analysis
Also both are framed with anamorphic 2.35:1 crop (both are the widescreen look)
This is a great observation I hasn't picked up, thank you
Lots of smart people in the comments. I’m picking up a lot of details I would have missed. This film is so rich you get something new every time you see it.
I'm a father, I feel so lucky to not knowing where my child's life lead, but I will embrace n welcome every moment of it. And I will tell my feelings more often
This movie was made for parents, for sure. Wow, did it hit me hard.
For us (men) family,
it's important thing, we aren't perfect, but we always try to be
muhammad hudi 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
@J B and that’s the power of love…there isn’t a logical answer to this. It’s a motion that will never confront us but what the scene was trying to depict is that love is such a powerful force you want to experience it again and again…and that love…real love will give you the strength to accept hardship and loss too…
Max Richter's music did a magic there.
true
Also the cutting with the music was on point.
I completely stunt by the ending. The whole story leads to the end which ends up being the beginning. Just like her daughter name and aliens language - a circular.
You know...this hidden meaning also applies to our lives..A person is born out of the world..growing up towards death..Finally came to death but his/her children inherit their parent's things and proceed with their life based on what they've received from their parents..Over numerous years, Humanity did it, and do it, and will do it. That is why we call it life "cycle"..
Love this movie! Such a great metaphor for life --we all know we die eventually but we still choose to get up everyday to fight the fight.
rage rage against the dying of the light
But why? Lol. If everyone dies, then nothing matters. We are just a bunch of psychos bringing dying beings into the world, giving birth to children knowing they are going to die just so WE can feel some love for awhile before we die and leave them here to grieve us...wtf. Love is a beautiful thing, but it dies with us, end of story.
@@ARock437no, I don't want to feel any pain. It sucks, there's no reason for it. I lost my dad when I was 10, my mom when I was 21 and just a year and half ago, my only sister. And I'm still grieving for my sister, grief just sucks!
@@ladykd2355 Apathy is death. Worse than death.
@ladykd2355
Least edgy YT comment be like:
Amy Adams: “So, Hannah...”
Me: hysterically starts crying
Same 😭😭😭😭😭😑😑😑
Try watching it with your SO from the start and not blubbering in the first 2 minutes because you know how it ends
@@TcheQ yes this just happened to me. When she's chasing her daughter at the beginning I already started crying lol
It's not very easy to understand but in the end scene everything becomes clear and you realize it is one of the most beautiful movies of history. So powerful
I’m having just a little problem understanding exactly how the timeline pans out, care to explain to me? Because to me the relationship and Hannah comes after the whole alien thing, but then she says things like “I forgot how it felt to hug you” just as the aliens leave, but also before the actual relationship and Hannah? I know you wrote your comment 2 years ago but maybe you can explain it to me anyways haha
@@OrreBorree After I read your comment I've been thinking a lot about your question but actually I can't answer 🙃🙃 I watched the movie many years ago and I don't remember that detail I'm sorry :(
@@OrreBorree she sees the future , she knew what was gonna happen and when she told the husband about the daughter dying he divorce her, alien said Louise sees future
@@icecube1212 Yeah I watched the movie again and I fully understood it this time:) but thanks anyway!
But she met the aliens after her daughter was diagnosed with cancer right?, Can someone pls explain 😭
Still one of the best endings in any film I've seen. Thumbs up if you agree.
I forgot how it felt to be held by you..... got me. You can feel the love and dispite knowing her future she still wanna do it all with him. True love.
The look in her eyes when she delivers that line shatters me every time.
He’d say what he feels more often. He values honesty and openness. Which makes perfect sense as to why he’d be so devastated and leave her when he found out she’d been keeping her true thoughts secret from him since the beginning
This is late but... he left her not because she's been keeping it for so long and told him just now, but because she told him at all. He wasn't prepared about that news.
It's implied that the future “memory” Louise experiences when he says that line (a tipsy future-Louise stumbling toward future-Ian holding a wine glass) is the moment when she tells him her secret despite knowing full well that she's about to provoke him into leaving her, and future-Louise is recalling this past statement by Ian as she prepares herself to tell him anyway.
@@ehmehmehm wtffff how do you know he left her ? I’ve seen this film a few times I can’t remember seeing that part x
@@lydiax5416 I guess she says something related to that,something like he left
@@lydiax5416 its when the kid asks mother " why daddy left me" and mother says he didnt leave you , you will see him at weekends , thats when .
The power of love and hugs, "...I forgot how good it felt to be held by you..." Mind blowing movie, sentimental, powerful, great music, well written, perfect :)
It was her only clue to him, as it was the first time they embraced that he was ware of.
This movie is a master piece. If I would die right now, I would die with the knowledge that I saw the greates story in human history❤
I once saw someone say "it sounds like the music is crying". That really stuck with me, it's true
Ian’s quote in this scene is so profound. He’s always wondered about extraterrestrial life, but when he actually got the chance to meet them, it was nothing compared to meeting Louise
thats love
Who cut onions here? ToT
I love the fact they hug rather than kiss it’s so much more intamite and almost like I needed each other’s embrace rather than being cliche by kissing
I had the exact same feeling : it was true love
Omg yes when watching this scene i was crossing my fingers and all hoping they hug and not kiss
Such a shame that the composer for this film passed away. This is easily one of the greatest themes in all of film history.
actually, that is partially true. Most of the music was composed by Johann Johannsson, who did pass away. However, the music playing for this ending scene was composed by Max Richter, and is entitled "On the Nature of Daylight". Fortunately, Max Richter is still alive.
Guy Raymaker yes I found that out recently, been listening to Max Richter like crazy lately haha.
@@joshuafletcher4501 make sure to listen to the one with Louisa fuller (and co) on it. That's the one they play on the movie.
@@blackwomanorangecat listen to The Leftovers soundtrack
Max Richter is well alive...
First movie to ever make me cry.
I never cried so hard in a theater in my life.
@@heidinewman9335 for real I looked absolutely insane lol
So none of you watched Titanic or Lovely Bones ?
Green Mile also gets me.
Watch blood diamond it's sad af 😢
Arrival, Interstellar and Inception are in my top modern day film category.
You forgot Contact with Jodi Foster and your list is perfect
Hey hey! And the Edge of Tomorrow???
Those are exactly my favorite movies including Blade Runner 2049.
Add TOGO to it
Why do none of these terrible lists include blade runner 2049? It’s way better than these.
This movie was about ourselves and meaning of life, aliens was just a metaphor about the unknown realm we try to seek , but when we forget to enjoy existence of everything around us right now
It is so hard for me to write this, but. My mother passed away a week ago by a heart attack. She was young and happy and dancing when it happened. My heart is full of grief and sorrow. But I'm proud that me and my brother and my mother lived a life full of love. Rest in peace Mom. I'll always love you.
Rip🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I'm so sorry for your loss
The type of empathy this movie explores is one that you find just in uncommon days, and it's like an elixir.
Wonderful editing in this scene. In particular, I love the match cutting at 3:52 and 3:58 - like Louise's hug with Ian transported her to another similar moment in time, "reminding" her how good it felt to be held by him.
Yeah,Felt a bit Terrance mallicky there
Who else broke down at the end of this movie?
If you think this will have you break down try watching The Green Mile.
This movie seriously broke me.
I broke down around the middle, knowing where this was going and where it was coming from.
I did... totally
Didn’t broke down but left in awe. Never saw that twist coming.
This is one of the best movies ever made. Change my mind
I agree
This made me cry like a little girl - 30 year old man
no shame in that :’)
Same 😭 Im 22
I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again such a beautiful piece of work.
You wont be able to watch this again for the first time, but maybe you can invite others to watch it for the first time with you, and you can live vicariously through them :)
Maybe if understand the aliens circular language then you can.
This background music is fantastic!!
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
Her arrival is more important than her departure
"The world is cruel, but it is also Beautiful"
max richter - on the nature of daylight
Best instrumental song ever!!!!!
I think the NY TImes described it as the saddest song ever composed.
I can play it on piano - learnt it ages ago but still play it all the time. It’s one of my all time favourites
@@edwardruthazer1849 really? When ? I wanna read that article !
@@Pandorasoul It was actually vox.
www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/11/13587262/arrival-movie-review-amy-adams-denis-villeneuve
This film has changed me in a way that cannot be described
1:01 I've always been fascinated by this shot. The use of focus...it seems like Louise's husband is some sort of alien...which he did in fact become. Dennis Villenueve's stamp on his films is the visual poetry. Every shot has a lot of meanings.
I think it is also supposed to remind of her looking through the glass to the aliens
I love the soundtrack for this movie; so sad but beautiful.
What a beautiful movie. If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things ?
Yep: I wouldn't have bothered.
Instantly answered yes to this. Who wouldn't ?
Tiago Matheus I don’t think I would. Any little change can keep my daughter from being born. She’s really changed my life.
@@kennyg6599 I feel the same. The things that happened to me, make me who I am, and make me knew the peoples that I love, even the bad ones.
Tbh, I don’t really think that change was even possible. If you think about it, Banks doesn’t SEE the future. She’s experiencing it, whether she’s in the present or past. Time isn’t linear in this “language”. When she kept having “visions” they weren’t really visions because they already happened. Banks is basically living in a spectrum. Where past, present and future are all one.
Ian confessing his feelings for her is an amazing piece of the story.
I wept so loudly in the movie theatre when she said yes to having the baby that my then wife had to squeeze my hand and rub my back. I've never been sooo touched by a film.
José Gómez 4 years ago I lost my daughter who was only 20. I watched this movie and it spoke of a profound truth I agreed with. When she said she would still live it all again despite knowing she was going to lose her daughter. I know what she meant. I too would live every day of my life again with my daughter knowing that I would lose her. I’d go through it all and what that told me is that the power of love is worth all the pain and that for all the darkness life brings u there’s light in there too and that it all is part of the tapestry and journey of life. She wasn’t cruel in her decision, it’s just she understood that Love was worth going through all that again, the love she shared with her daughter was so powerful it was worth even going through the pain again. Trust me she’s not selfish, I wake up every day living the pain of not having my daughter in my life but I can tell you 💯 without hesitation I would live it all again knowing the outcome to experience the love we shared.
This is the best example ever of a film with a seemingly large-scale, high concept plot that ends up being a deeply intimate and small story about something beautiful yet tragic.
The movie is kind of confusing and hard to follow, especially if you’re not paying attention. But the way this scene wrapped everything up together in such an emotional and satisfying manner, makes the entire film worth it. When I tell you I cried.....
Obviously not the same thing, but I lost my kid sister 10 years ago in a car accident. She was 17. I'm 31 now and the pain hasn't really gone away much but I valued the time we had together. We are a very close family, Me, my 3 brothers and my parents. I don't think any of us have really gotten over it but we try day by day.
Sending you love. From someone who also tries to get over it
My wife and I had our first baby boy then watched this movie a week later. We don’t know what will come of our boy but we will live and savor every moment of our child’s precious life.
During a visit to Italy I was told that great cinema defines a a society's culture. My Italian friends asked me if there were any great Canadian film makers. I introduced them to Denis Villeneuve.
The most painful film ending ever. I felt desperate and exploded. Wept and sobbed like never before.
Dude sometimes I get these nihilistic thoughts and then I watch something like this, there I am grateful to have been born just to feel something like this. True beauty and brilliance from Villanveua
Just fuckin brilliant. She is letting go and accepting at the same time
Despite knowing the journey... and where it leads... I embrace it... and I welcome every moment of it.
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I came back to this movie when I feel sad. When I feel happy. When I feel lost, hopeless and full of life.
This is my favorite movie of all time. Not knowing it was going to be such a deep movie with a sci-fi twist to it. I almost tear up at this scene.
You don't have to lie..I think we all cried to this scene. I lost it.
The best five minutes of cinematic history.
The most powerful scene I’ve ever witnessed.
“You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.”
This got to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen/heard in my life. I feel like crying just by reading it. The guy literally says he was more fascinated about meeting her than the aliens! Oh gosh, this is so beautiful.
...and right before he said that, he said how he would "maybe say what I feel more often..."
He hesitates before saying the line that you quoted. Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but he thought about what he said (saying how he feels), and he went for it. He went against what he would usually do.
Beautiful movie!
@@patrickstapleton3377 wow, great observation! I like to think you're right.
On the nature of daylight by Max Richter been used in many films but none better than here.
I love this music
Niceeeeee
Came here just after watching The Last of Us 3rd episode. Arrival is one of my favorite movies and this song just gets right through my heart.
Do you know the name of this song?!
On the nature of daylight
I feel this way about my heartbreak. I never felt that way with anyone else. The happiest experiences I've had were with her. I'd have married her if we would've gotten through things. She didn't want to be together anymore so we broke up. Felt absolutely shattered by it. The wish of never having met her so I wouldn't have to miss her so much crossed my mind, but I realised I wouldn't want it. All the memories I have with her are priceless and eventhough I can't be in them anymore I'll have had them and that's enough. And Im grateful that in those moments I cherished them, I knew they wouldn't be forever. I'd do it all over again knowing I'd have to go through the same pain of losing her.
I forgot how good it felt to be held by you. Just put all of that in perspective and this sole line makes this movie a Madterpiece
"I forgot how good it felt to be held by you" just gorgeous....
the last dialogues of this movie is enough to get you in love with it
what an absolute masterpiece of a movie
Not winning an oscar for that role was a crime
i still remember how i let it out when i finished this movie, i cried a lot
My mom passed away on march 21. The pain is almost unberable. It feels like a part of my body is missing.
But still, even if I knew how everything would hapening, I would still choose to be your daughter and live with you for 25 years of my life.
Mom, I love you so much. Everyday I feel like someone is gona come and say you are coming back home. I wanna be with you so bad.
I'm so sorry for your loss, I can't imagine the pain you're feeling. One step, one breath, one moment at a time is all you can do.
Trust God. He loves you. 🙏 Please. He is close to the broken hearted. Just trust xx
The plot twist of the film is astounding. She still decided to go through marriage, starting a family, etc., knowing that her baby would die and that her husband would leave. Even if her happiness was brief, she would cherish it as opposed to having no happiness.
I have an autistic son. If I could see my future from start to end, I too would not like to change anything. I could relate to this feeling and emotion of being with your loved ones, and take every single opportunity to live my life with them again despite pain, suffering and pleasure.
Accepting every moment of your future even when you know it will be sad… it’s desperately amazing.
You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.
What a scene!♥️♥️♥️
for those who don't know, the song is called "on the nature of daylight" by German composer Max Richter. hes brilliant, this song is brilliant. really great artist
Still one of the most powerful endings to film yet. Villeneuve is a genius
I watched this movie without any prior knowledge of it. It was recommended to me by a friend. I noticed that its genre was listed as science fiction, so I expected an action movie like Edge of Tomorrow or Elysium. I was so wrong and I am glad I watched it without expecting or knowing anything.
The fact the daughters name is a palindrome is such a clever nod to the future events. Beautiful and brilliant film from the best director out there right now
"You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you”
so beautiful, it hurts
I love this movie. I understand why she wanted to live her life the same despite the profound loss she would experience. But oh my I felt sad for Ian. Reflecting on the movie made me empathise with him, especially for leaving. I understand it deeply. To him, she had the opportunity to prevent his pain. Instead of seeing the daughter a gift like she does, he sees what she knew as being complicit in causing his ultimate pain. She let him grow attached to this child and love her, fully knowing that one day he would have to experience the most extreme loss a parent can ever feel. Though I’m sure he loves his child profoundly, for some people it does become hard to look at someone and love them without it HURTING... knowing you are going to lose them. So on one hand, I love her decision to keep life as it is and love her daughter fully. She had that decision. But at the end of the day, she took that decision from him. She took HIS choice to choose whether to feel the passion and life that was Hannah and experience ultimate pain, or change life for another child or no child at all. If neither of them knew this would come, it’d seem like an unfortunate and terribly sad set of circumstances. But because she knew and had a choice, that pain feels purposeful. In a way, she is kind of the cause of his pain. He has no choice but to continue on with life knowing he will suffer this devastating loss. Really, she should never have told him or told him before they had a child and consciously make that decision TOGETHER. Instead, she led him towards sadness. And geez that realisation KILLS me.
I felt the same thing too. She shouldn't have told him what was eventually going happen 💔
@@humsabmagluhain she can't because it would change the future and she chose not to :(
You’re thinking in linear time and so is he. Louise no longer even exists in linear time because she knows the language. That’s the gift the aliens gave. So although her daughter will die, Louise can live in every moment that they shared together.
Maybe this is one reason why the aliens describe it as a “weapon” - because aside from using it for parlor tricks like calling a high-ranking Chinese general on his personal cell phone to tell him his wife's dying words, Louise's trajectory also demonstrates how it can be a powerful tool of emotional manipulation against anyone who isn't also armed with it, and can be used to cause them the most profound sort of pain imaginable.
That's thinking in linear terms.
This movie just hits diffeent.
I have not seen a movie sequence this powerful and moving since the opening scene of the Pixar movie Up.
Arrival and Interstellar are the best and most emotional science fiction movies of the 21st century, and I cried with both of them.😢
One of the best movies that has been made over the past 10 years. It is underrated gem and worth watching many times.