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

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve 

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.

Amy Adams - Favorite Performances of the Decade

4/6 Arrival (2016) dir Denis Villeneuve

“So, Hannah…This is where your story begins. The day they departed…Despite knowing the journey…and where it leads…I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.”

We’re so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. Amy Adams as Louise Banks in Arrival (2016)

erika’s film diary → arrival (2016) dir. denis villeneuve

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

“I used to think this was the beginning of your story.“ 

Arrival (2016) dir : Denis Villeneuve

CONCEPT ART FOR THE FILM ARRIVAL 

by Peter Konig

“Now, that’s a proper introduction.”

Arrival - Created by Ori Toor

Learning a language that doesn't use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you're doomed

Speaking of how much Chinese and Japanese have in common though, here's an interesting NeighborNet typological chart of Northeast Asia:

Besides the tripartite Sinitic / Micro-Altaic / Japonic–Korean division, note also features like

modern Japanese and also Ryukyuan drifting closer to Ainu;

Jurchen-Manchu drifting closer to Sinitic and then back again (??);

the relative difficulty of separating "Altaic" from "non-Altaic" languages of NE Asia

Atayal hanging out close to Old Chinese and indeed within the authors' division line for Sinitic (many other SEA languages might fall around here);

Russian hanging out in the upper right between North Tungusic and Yukaghir (in a larger network most of Indo-European and also Uralic would probably attach somewhere around here).

(from Yurayong & Szeto 2020: (De-)Altaicisation as convergence and divergence between Japonic and Koreanic languages)

Phew! It’s finished! Thank you to @embergeist and @mllebree for your help with some of the ASL. It’s been fun dusting off the cobwebs and relearning some sign language I’d forgotten over the years. I’m still playing around with the best ways to have Quasi “talk.” A lot of sign language involves motion which is tricky in static images. I did leave out some pronouns here and there like “I, me, her, etc” just to try to avoid Quasi looking too much like an octopus. 

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Linguistics at Cambridge

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

By Edgar Ascensão

arrival -

Still, I tried to ponder questions formulated in terms more familiar to me: what kind of worldview did the heptapods have, that they would consider Fermat’s principle the simplest explanation of light refraction? What kind of perception made a minimum or maximum readily apparent to them?

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis VILLENEUVE based on Story of Your Life (1999) by Ted CHIANG

SUBLIME CINEMA #301 - ARRIVAL

Denis Villeneuve is one of the most interesting new gen filmmakers to come along for a while, along with the Safdie Brothers, Celine Sciamma, Chloe Zhao, and a select few others. There is not a windfall of new young talent with their own particular artistic signatures, but Villeneuve has specialized in epic, stark landscapes, and vast worlds of a dark unknown for over a decade. He now commands bigger budgets than his contemporaries could dream of. His earliest short ‘The Next Floor’, looked inspired by Roy Andersson, but then he pared down the elements to some kind of pure essential starkness which seems distinctly his. Mixed results ensued - Incendies, Sicario, Prisoners and Arrival approach masterpiece material, and show an artist in command of his talent. Blade Runner 2049 was haphazard, Polytechnique polarizing. But he’s an artist I will go out of my way to watch. 

Arrival is a great science fiction film, thought provoking, hauntingly beautiful. and Villeneuve’s last collaboration with sublime composer Johann Johansson before he passed away tragically, way too young. 

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arrival • blade runner: 2049 • dune

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.

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Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve 

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

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve