The movie "Arrival": Is the arrival of aliens redemption or destruction?

Released in 2017, the American brain-burning science fiction film "Arrival" Arrive uses the narrative method of the timeline, showing how the protagonist Louise communicates with the aliens in language through the joint development of the present and future timelines. Want to read this article Xiaobian thinks there is still a certain degree of difficulty, next Xiaobian to talk about their own understanding.

First, we have to think about the question: If one day twelve aliens landed in different locations on Earth, facing unknown creatures, what would be the reaction as a mass? As a government, what should we do about it? In the United States in the movie, the masses are undoubtedly panicked, and the government's statement that it is not panicking must be false, but they have to find a breakthrough – to communicate with the aliens. They want to immediately find out the purpose of the aliens coming to Earth. So the government hired the heroine Louise, a very good translator, to perform the task of language communication with aliens. If this task is in your hands, do you dare? As you can imagine, this requires not only wisdom, but also courage. Surprisingly, across the thick barrier, Louise actually taught aliens more and more vocabulary aliens. Beyond the screen of the alien cabin, humans could only see the seven feet and thick clouds of two aliens, and after months of hard work, Louise was already able to ask questions about the aliens. When she asked what the purpose of the aliens coming to Earth was, the aliens gave the answer: use weapons to use weapons. This really shocked the local government, do the aliens want to destroy humanity? But Louise explains that perhaps human linguistic thinking and alien thinking are not the same, so it may not mean this. Risking her life, Louise decides to talk to the aliens again, but this time she is taken directly by the aliens to the fourth dimension, possessing an alien mind and the ability to predict the future. In this conversation, the aliens told her, "This time the aliens came to save the earth, and in 3,000 years the earth saved the aliens."

Seeing this, many people began to have a little doubt, Xiaobian is also puzzled, so this can not be understood as: aliens can predict the future, but can not change the future. Time is irreversible in the alien world, so they came to Earth to help Earth, so that in 3,000 years, humans can help aliens. Of course, at the beginning of the small editor mentioned that this alien arrival can be more than one, distributed in twelve countries in the world, one of which landed in Shanghai, China. In the film, China initially decides to declare war on aliens, and later calls the Chinese general in Louise's ability to predict the future, calling for a "non-zero-sum game", which makes countries unite and work together, and the alien spacecraft completes its mission and disappears into the sky.

There are also many details in the film, including Louise's foresight of her future abilities when she learns that her future daughter Hanah will not live long, and she did not choose to give up and insist on giving birth to her. This is also the point that brought many viewers to tears--- "I have met all the sadness, but I am still willing to go."

Different from the reading of other research and scientific research directions, what Xiaobian sees in this movie is touching, unity, and reflection. What exactly does the arrival of aliens bring to mankind? Help? disaster? Or is it a warning? Maybe there are, maybe not. The inquiry into the alien world is too far away and too macroscopic, and all we can do is respect life itself, the earth, and everything else with reverence.