You may deny it but alien films do have the sheer and pure cinematic power of capturing your visual senses! Ain’t it fun to watch the humanity getting together and struggling in combat against superior living species harboring evil intentions and possessing cool tech, ultimately still somehow losing to us dumb apes? Well, ‘cause the films were made by us, duh! Anyway, not letting our thoughts fly unfettered, let’s get to the point! Or is it a circle? You would understand this joke if you have watched the film or read this article! Explanation of The Movie Arrival ‘Arrival’ is 21 st century’s attempt at creating films like Zemeckis’ Contact or Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind . And boy, it is something! It is adapted by Eric Heissererfrom a novella Story of Your Life written by Ted Chiang. Denis Villeneuve has made this into a heady concoction of science fiction, suspense, international politics, spirituality, linguistics, and romance. Putting it into a single genr...