it's really fucking long but somehow hugely compressed at the same time, they do lots of hop-skip-jump over sequences that could be entire movies in themselves (characters getting from A to B etc.) and as a result the movie starts to just become a series of disjoint events happening instead of something that follows smoothly. However, it has unbelievable art design. It keeps throwing machine/weapon/setting designs at you that would be standalone iconic in any other film.
::: The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.
it's really fucking long but somehow hugely compressed at the same time, they do lots of hop-skip-jump over sequences that could be entire movies in themselves (characters getting from A to B etc.) and as a result the movie starts to just become a series of disjoint events happening instead of something that follows smoothly. However, it has unbelievable art design. It keeps throwing machine/weapon/setting designs at you that would be standalone iconic in any other film.
The disjointed sense of time is an important plot point though.
It is?
Very much so
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::: The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.
we're talking about the creator, not arrival
Damn, my bad. Got the threads mixed up