Talking in Circles: Creating the Alien Language of 'Arrival'

Alien( 1979).

Toddler_movies on Instagram: "Based on a short story The film is adapted from Ted Chiang’s acclaimed short story “Story of Your Life” (1998). Language as the real sci-fi concept The movie’s core idea is the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis — the theory that language can shape the way humans think and perceive time. Circular alien language = nonlinear time The heptapods’ written language is circular because they experience past, present, and future simultaneously. Why the aliens came to Earth They weren’t

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