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Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’: When Aliens and Linguists

Uri Klein Nov 26, 2016 2:51 AM Offering a different take on the aliens-invade-Earth 
theme in sci-fi movies, this film considers the power 
of language to transform reality and suggests that 
we reconsider our conception of time. Twelve spacecraft land randomly in 12 different countries, including Russia, China, Pakistan and the United States. These are not