film review
Arrival
A linguist acquires an alien grammar that unmoors her from linear time, and she begins perceiving her whole life at once, including the daughter she knows she will lose. She chooses the joy regardless, eyes open. It was marketed as a space film; it is a study in proleptic grief wearing an exceptionally good spaceship costume.
what it left me with
If you could survey the entire arc, joy and loss alike, would you still consent to the good part? She does. It is the bravest act in the film, and not a single thing explodes.
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