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Arrival
Villeneuve and Heisserer make a linguistics film feel like 2001 for its generation.
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Arrival
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The heptapod encounter — the monolith contact
→ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Villeneuve builds the first contact scene directly from Kubrick: the human figure dwarfed by the alien artefact, music that builds toward unknowable scale. Where Kubrick goes silent, Villeneuve goes low-frequency.
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