Arrival

It's amazing how Denis Villeneuve can manage to create such complex scenarios with so little dialogue. It's all in the unsaid, the body language, written language, visual effects and musical score (excellent by the way.) What little dialogue exists in this movie is simplistic and/or hard to understand (muttered, whispered.) It's kind of paradoxical that the movie has to do with communication as the basis of civilization and survival when there is so very little in the movie... Well actually there is as explained above but it's not oral. I thought it was totally unbelievable that extra terrestrial beings would have the patience to try to communicate with barbaric entities bent on self destruction and the destruction of their own planet because of their insatiable lust for power and domination overall but it's good to dream and since it's science fiction, it doesn't have to be realistic to be good. For the time this movie lasts, it makes me dream of reconciliation, change of core values, peace on earth and the possible long term survival of the human species. Pretty powerful stuff. On a side note and since some complained that the movie was too slow, this movie is not a clone of Aliens or The Thing or whatever "let's blast the aliens out of our existence" kind of movie. The action goes on in your head if you allow it to. It's more cerebral than physical. If you want an action type science fiction movie with a lot of guns and explosions, this might disappoint.