Arrival Blogpost

   The Arrival is a Sci-Fi film that came out in theaters back in 2016. It was a really good connecting movie that showed many emotions and was kind of a twist too. I felt this was a really well produced Sci-Fi film because of how Amy Adams connected and communicated with the aliens in their own ship. The directer did do a very well job on making this an emotional Sci-Fi film to watch, it was really enjoyable.
   I thought the structure of the story and plot was shown pretty well. At first it is confusing to understand how the time works but in the beginning of the film, Amy Adams has flashbacks of her daughter and that she will pass away soon to a disease. But At the end of the film, The aliens actually put the future in her mind and the daughter is who she will have in the future because she does not currently. This was a huge twist that shocked me and made me wonder why the directer did that. The directer, script writers made it interesting of how the aliens communicated which they did by shooting out there ink and forming shapes with them. The reality in this was that the military were after the aliens and just wanted to know why they were here on earth. Jeremy Renner played his role well on helping Amy Adams learn the aliens language and what they were doing.
   The cinematography was really well and I was defiantly blown away on techniques used. Some shots that I remember was the one when it was a tilt in a opening scene to the giant land with the mountains in the background where the alien spaceship landed. I really also liked how they used an extreme close up and just regular close ups to show the emotion of what the mood is. In the shot where Amy was holding her daughter, it made the mood sad and connected to her feelings. Also I love point of view shots because you get the perspective that character and the cinematographer did really well when the camera was facing Amy's daughter during her point of view when she was running around in the backyard.
   I would 100% recommend this film to anyone especially people that are really into the film shot techniques. Even if your not into Sci-Fi movies, this film will connect to you and keep you waiting off your seat to see what was going to happen next. I also recommend watching this movie possibly twice because first, you want to learn and understand the story on what is going on. Then watch it again to see what shot types they used and how those moments affected your emotions.