Arrival: Dissecting Film language/ Language of film Anonymous College

In Arrival, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve tackles a theme that can be summed up by a quote from the film that says, “it's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and affects how you see everything” (Villeneuve, 2016). From this, we understand that there is no thought without expression, no content without form. It is the idea that however profound something feels to you, does not really exist until you can write it down or put it on film. To watch Arrival is to watch a filmmaker in command of the language his ideas presuppose. Denis Villeneuve has a firm grasp on the craft. Watching Arrival is getting to experience a film that is well constructed. So much of today's films are all over the place to the point where the audience has to exert themselves more to compensate for the lack of focus. In a way, Arrival is the perfect response to the bad movies we see so much of. It is effective and impactful and it does so by using the very thing that impacts us all, language. Arrival is also concerned with the language of film as it is with written, spoken or alien language.

‘Montage' means the assembly of pieces of film which moved in rapid succession before the eye create an idea. The first couple of scenes are...