Music Banter - View Single Post - What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?
View Single Post
Old 02-24-2017, 11:06 AM   #18861 (permalink)
Chula Vista
Toasted Poster
 
Chula Vista's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: SoCal by way of Boston
Posts: 11,332
Default

Spoiler for Even moar:
I don't think learning the circular language gave others the ability. Lousie had to tell Ian about their daughter's impending death. He didn't see it on his own. And regarding Shang, he didn't have it either. He receives a call from a stranger on his personal cell phone and she utters his wife's dying words to him. It blows his mind and causes him to stand down mainly based on not fully understanding, other than it must have been something related to the Aliens. At some point later he learns about Louise's book and realizes that it was her that made the call. He then goes out of his way to meet her and impart the knowledge she would need to make things right 18 months earlier. He goes so far to tell her, "I don't understand how your mind works".

For the record, his wife's dying words were: "In war, there are no winners. Only widows."
__________________

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Chula Vista is offline   Reply With Quote