Memory Is A Strange Thing. It Doesn’t Work Like I Thought It Did. We Are So Bound By Time, By Its Order.

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Endless list of favourite films: Arrival (2016).

If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?

Maybe I’d say what I felt more often. I-I don’t know.

Linguistics at Cambridge

by salman toor, van gogh, cecilia rosslee, van gogh.

Arrival (2016) Dir. Denis Villeneuve

Arrival, 2016

Science Fiction

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

Cinematography: Bradford Young

Now that’s a proper introduction.

ARRIVAL 2016 | dir. Denis Villeneuve

I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived.

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

So first, we need to make sure that they understand what a question is. Okay, the nature of a request for information along with a response. Then, we need to clarify the difference between a specific “you” and a collective “you”, because we don’t want to know why Joe Alien is here, we want to know why they all landed.  And purpose requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out: do they make conscious choices? Or is their motivation so instinctive that they don’t understand a “why” question at all? And, and biggest of all, we need to have enough vocabulary with them that we understand their answer.