“Arrival” with Amy Adams: chamber game-like Sci-Fi-Drama – t-online.de

Berlin (dpa) – If in a movie, Aliens land on earth, makes Hollywood it’s usually a bombastic Action. The scenario is often similar: The aliens are invaders who want to subjugate humans, and therefore, with all the balancing have to be combated.

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In “Arrival” suddenly twelve Ufos in several Parts of the world – but Director Denis Villeneuve uses this situation for a rather unusual, silent Science Fiction Film. “Arrival” is a plea for rapprochement and communication of different worlds.

Of the Aliens themselves is seen in the Film. Only their huge, elliptical-shaped space ships floating in various countries, a few meters above the ground. They do not attack. But what do you want? Exactly the should to find out, Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams, “American Hustle”). She is a linguist asked by the US military to come into Montana with the aliens in contact. On your side: the physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner, “The First Avenger: Civil war”).

Before the first contact, the security measures are enormous. In suits to protect you from dangerous germs, enter the two experts of the Interior of the Ufos. Behind a slice of two large octopus on dive-like creatures, the syringe with its seven arms, something like ink on the disc. It is circle-shaped symbols, which have a variety of protrusions. Louise recognizes that this is the language of the peaceful Kraken, and trying to decipher the System.

not Really happened much in about two hours, even if it is just before the end of the obligatory Showdown and the looming threat of an escalation. Canadian Villeneuve told his story, rather, in the quiet, slow images. Cities are placed by Aliens in the rubble: there is not in this Science-Fiction Film, relaxing way. Even the space ships from radiation with their dark, shiny surfaces more elegance as a threat.

About pop-up TV news viewers learn how to the Ufo’s arrival in many countries, a panic breaks out, shops looted, and political alliances will be forged against the Aliens. However, these are only short moments. Instead, Villeneuve focuses quickly back on its main characters and their work.

The focus is Louise. You to go – without a protective suit on the octopus Aliens, struggling with her emotions, makes the Deciphering of the characters progress and can communicate with the Aliens. Villeneuve creates it so, in fact, to stage “Arrival” as a kind of chamber play in the midst of Chaos’.

it is Difficult, however, as he adds a philosophical, supernatural component. Now it is no longer the Director to stress the importance of common communication. He also wants to show what we can win people by other for our lives. This is particularly in view of the many conflicts in the world, but also in terms of the refugee crisis and the associated Fears sure to be very relevant. As the Embassy of the otherwise very haunting story, but a little to simple and striking.