What does this movie tell about a distinct culture or social structure?
According to the Arrival movie, language and communication determine a cultural system. A particular cultural structure's communication and language may also be complicated, especially if it includes aliens, who lengthen it. Humans are, by nature, not just paranoid but also violent. As a result, China decides to destroy the aliens in the movie while obstructing their interactions with other countries, and other countries decide to do the same (Collins 56). In the end, each country stops talking to one another and concentrates on its own policy.
What type of conflict does the film depict, and how is that a unique cultural conflict?
The film portrays the conflict of misunderstanding. A time when aliens argue that "Offer weapon", human beings get edgy. It is challenging to assume that weapon implies what people think as human and aliens cannot communicate with one another and depend on the pidgin type of written communication. Therefore, the conflict of misunderstanding is a distinctive cultural difference as it starts with language. Language is an important factor when it comes to an embodiment of a cultural practice as well as thinking in a symbolic manner. While they have different levels of malleability, they are simply sounds. Owing to the fact that Arrival movie has contemporary assumptions, it is therefore hard to allege that it serves as globalist propaganda, a global premise is its combat on all peculiarities. However, the film layers certain useful concepts. Since it is not translating words another person is saying, it is the entire structure that demonstrates how words are used in a significant way (Levasseur). People can technically speak similar languages, though they are miles away.
What type of social structure is depicted in the film?
The movie portrays an elitist type of social class. The alien, for example, represents sophisticated intellectual prowess through their technologically advanced space shuttle. The actors in the movie are also brilliant folks. Louise Banks, for instance, who plays the character of Amy Adams is a linguistic scholar. On the other hand, Ian Donnelly, who plays the character of Jeremy Renner, is a theoretical physicist. Both scholars approach language professionally.
Does it address issues of cross-cultural misunderstanding, ethnic conflict, or inequality?
Arrival film is a science fiction; therefore, it is not real about aliens as well as spaceships. For that reason, it attempts to address issues of cross-cultural misunderstanding and ethnic conflict. This is because misunderstanding is the basis of ethnic conflict. In the film, aliens argue "offer weapon" leads to conflicts among human beings since it is difficult to understand. But Louise tries to understand the same process of traveling in eleven states across the globe. In addition, the film demonstrates how misunderstanding in eleven languages leads to global saber-rattling and ethnic hostility (Collins 57). Basically, the film addresses these issues by indicating that whether it's aliens or humans, unity can be useful in ensuring equality and peaceful coexistence in the present cultural diversity.
Does the film address issues surrounding gender, language, colonization, religion, subsistence, technology, race, or human biology?
In this film, issues associated with language, gender, religion, colonization, race, technology, and subsistence are depicted by the Eurasian countries' unreasonable and reactionary hatred of aliens since they are misunderstood and different. Similarly, the Eurasian denunciation of aliens ignites a rejection against the west while cutting communication links. On the other hand, Army Adam is considered a goddess that mystically prevails over time-bound associations to understand aliens' language (Levasseur). In this film, meaning and words for humans are to some degree evil as they depict reflections of different races, genders, and cultures—a rapid concept of globalist propaganda, which is the message of Arrival. The very language is transcendental, an indirect argument and evidence of God and the spiritual realm.
In what ways (and why) does the film talk about these issues about different cultures?
The film talks about language, gender, religion, colonization, race, technology, and subsistence by blending reality into a nonexistent dream condition, which is the eventual attack on the decency of the creation of God, the world of time, distinctions, matter by terminating persons' identities. It also uses holy art to talk about issues such as gender and race.
Work Cited
Collins, Brian. “Arrival. Film. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. 21 Laps Entertainment, 2016.” Religious Studies Review 43.1 (2017): 56-56.
Levasseur, Jennifer. “Arrival: The Circle of Life?: Review of Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, Paramount Pictures, 2016 (116 minutes).” (2017).
