Discuss Villeneuve's Arrival and Chiang "Story of Your Life"
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To celebrate Valentine's Day, or rather the day after, let's talk about choosing love. Arrival and the short story "Story of Your Life" are beautiful, moving odes to not only the bittersweetness of love but also to such ideas as language shaping perception, commitment to decisions and experiences despite the known outcomes, how "others" are perceived as threats, and the possible non-sequentiality of time. We'll follow the linguist Louise Banks as she carries out her task to learn the language of the alien "Heptapods" for the US Army but discovers much more about herself and her inner strength along the way.
Please note, we'll discuss both the film and the short story.
Arrival (2016, director Denis Villeneuve) and "Story of Your Life" (2002, author Ted Chiang in his short story collection Stories of Your Life)
To find where can you watch it and with which language options:
https://www.werstreamt.es/film/details/824928/arrival/
