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Arrival by polardesigns

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You’ve seen flying saucers descend on planet Earth many times before, but none quite like the ones in Arrival. Near the start of Denis Villeneuve’s new film, adapted by Eric Heisserer from the Ted Chiang short story Story of your Life, a dozen vast, inexplicable, charcoal-grey wedges drop from the sky and hang above seemingly random points around our planet.

Depending on the angle, they look variously like monoliths, moons and enormous Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments. But without an easily identifiable cockpit, engine, wings or jets, they seem less practical than symbolic, like skywritten letters from an unknown alphabet. The question isn’t what they are. It’s what they mean.

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If the gatekeepers of classic screen sci-fi are at all anxious about the stamp that director Denis Villeneuve might put on his upcoming Blade Runner project — a sequel coming 35 years after the iconic original — then the class, intelligence and cool visual style of Arrival should provide reassurance. 

How refreshing to watch an alien contact movie in which no cities are destroyed or monuments toppled, and no adversarial squabbling distracts the human team from the challenges of their complex interspecies encounter.

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