Will Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival join the long line of science fiction movies that beget taken all our wonder and awe but given us little in return?The concept of first contact with extraterrestrial life has been a recurrent theme in 20th- and 21st-century science fiction. Will aliens peep like us? Will they think like us? Will we be like children to them? Will they exhibit what our own race rather conceitedly labels humanity”, or will they wrench this sublimely beautiful planet from our greedy hands and grind us mercilessly into the dust? Related: Terminated: James Cameron's lost vision of brutal blue-collar sci-fi Related: Is Ridley Scott making up Alien: Covenant as he goes along? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com