Arrival
What is the beginning? What is the end? Which is the front? & the back? What is your memory? What is time? We are randomly traveling in our memory. Those who remember necessary things when necessary may live smart. What do you ask I say about? A message from the Heptapod, the extraterritorial intelligent, seven-limbed, life form of Arrival, that is the 2016 film. They suddenly appear at the 12 locations on Earth. An omniscient linguist, Dr Louise Banks, is on her way to try & communicate with the two messengers from the other planet, who have arrived in Montana, while the world gets into panic. The two Heptapods, nicknamed Abbott & Costello by Louise & Dr Ian Donnelly, finally offer the earthling a weapon. She asks Costello what it is. He says “Louise has weapon.” One day many years after they have left the Earth, she asks Ian, her husband then:
If you could see your whole life from the start to finish, would you change things?
