Faith and Film: Arrival
Movie Review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.
Arrival is the story of a human encounter with extraterrestrial creatures, much like Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Without warning, twelve large objects appear hovering just above ground throughout the world, including Montana in the United States. Of course, military personnel investigate. They bring in scientists to determine who these aliens are, and why they came to earth. In the U.S., Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist, grieving the death of her daughter to cancer, is summoned from her university position to attempt to communicate with the aliens. In addition, the military brings in mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) to study the creatures.
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