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Arrival Movie Review

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A MOVIE REVIEW ON ARRIVAL

The movie, Arrival begins when there are twelve unidentified black objects or can be called as UFOs landed on the twelve locations on the earth. This movie tells us about the effort of Dr. Louise Banks who is a linguistic expert which she has to decode the language of the aliens. At first, Colonel G.T Weber who is a US army meet her and ask for her help to translate the audio file of the sound of the aliens but she says that she needs to be at the site to interact with them. At the site, she meets Dr. Ians Donnelly who is a Theoretical Physicist. Both of them work together to decode the language of the aliens. Dr. Banks has to carry out a mission which is to know the purpose of the arrival of the aliens or they call them heptapods since the alien has seven foots. This movie conveys the struggle of Dr. Banks to understand the language of the heptapod and her approach to communicate with them by teaching them a human language. The main idea potrays by the movie is the language that we speak determine the way we think. To relate it with psycholinguistic, according to the idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, language determine cognition which is the structure of the …show more content…

This movie relates to the linguistic relativism which is the idea that different language will generate the different cognitive structure. For example, Dr. Banks starts to perceive time as timeless as the heptapods do when she starts learning the heptapod language which is non-linear. Thinking in different language cause a changing in her thought pattern. There are three versions of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis by Miller and McNeil in 1969 which are the strong version, the weaker version and the weakest version. In my opinion, I think this movie supports the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which is language determine the

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