Sun, 18 May 2025 14:49:50 +0000

People don't get the point of scifi sometimes. It's not the technology and the aliens. It's the human part of the story set inside that universe.

Arrival is not about aliens that happened to drop by earth and teach humans to write in a language that made time seem circular. It's about the human who knew the suffering her decision was going to cause and did it anyway and her partner who left her once he learned of it. It is a heart wrenching human story. The aliens are incidental.