Arrival's Linguistic Relativity and Time Perception Are Awesome
Warning: Some Minor Spoilers
Let's explore the new film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve based on the Ted Chiang short science fiction story “The Story of Your Life”. The movie will spur our curiosity into some serious questions about how we perceive life, what causes us to perceive the way we do, and what do we do about it? The core concepts underlying the story that Arrival so masterfully brings into cinematic form are Linguistic Relativity (specifically the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis), Time Perception, and Determinism.
Original Trailer for Arrival (now playing in theaters): • Arrival Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures
"The Story of Your Life" Book: https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-L...
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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
"Space is 4D" -- Theory Claims that Time is Not the 4th Dimension (The Daily Galaxy)
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/...
Arrival: explaining its ending w/ huge spoilers (Den of Geek)
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/ar...
Language and Thought (Linguistic Society of America)
http://www.linguisticsociety.org/reso...