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Arrival is a 2016 American sci-fi drama starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner as a linguistic expert and scientist respectively, who are tasked with translating a first response scenario with a pair of aliens. I don't think there's ever been a film that I've watched with quite as much repetition. I've probably seen it at least once a month since it came out 6 years ago and I'm just as fiercely focused on it with each viewing as I was when I first saw it. I basically always want to be talking about aliens.

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Anonymous

Really loved the unboxing video. From go to oh, I was laughing non stop. There was a lot of references but to me that magmde it really fun. My favourite was the Mean Girls/Stella. I've already watched 5 times in a row today. I remember seeing Arrival when it first came out. I thought it was really good. Completely forgot about this movie. Thank you for reminding of this movie.

Anonymous

Re: movies that really fucked my foundations to to the core: Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats in English) directed by and basically starring Xavier Dolan [he inserts himself so much it’s criminal). Really aesthetically beautiful but emotionally brutal arty farty movie about a fag and a fag hag lusting after the same French Canadian slampiece. Please try it if you can tolerate subtitles. Second: Hedwig and the Angry Inch!! A recommendation from y’all which really stuck. I second you with Breakfast on Pluto, a similar movie from the land of myself and Nadine Coyle. P.S. I thought I was hilarious commenting “rest in pieces” under your Covid post and I’ve been Covid positive since. Karma does exist and she’s a salty bitch.

Anonymous

such a great pod as always doll! LOVED the unboxing video from the beginning to the end i was giggling! quick question any advice on dealing with exam result stress? i’ve got my alevel results in a few weeks and the pressure is starting to get to me! ps speaking of alevels you , full of it and the chancel really helped me out in college was going through such a crappy time just want to say thank you ! i’ll appreciate you more than you’ll ever know 💖

Kyle Ross

I ABSOLUTELY believe in aliens, even though I've never seen a UFO or anything. my dad does and I'm pretty sure my grandfather did. I never even thought about having to break down what a language even is, right down to the last nut and bolt. I will definitely have to watch this film. at this point I take your recommendations as gospel because you have gotten me to watch kath & kim, the comeback, 30 rock, and dark side of the ring, and they were all brilliant. love you lots and I'm glad you're finally feeling better. 💖

Anonymous

I believe there could be other life out there in the universe. Whether they've visited us is debatable. But if they did, it would be interesting to wonder would it be more like Arrival, Contact or Independence Day...and would humans be able to cope if Aliens did actually come to Earth. I doubt it...

Anonymous

Hi Lymp, linguist here! What the movie made me think of too is how those same kind of ‘mediations’ happened between different groups of humans back in history when people were exploring different parts of the world in the days before translators etc. Amazing pod as per doll x

Anonymous

I saw “Arrival” in the theater when it first came out and was deeply moved. I loved hearing you share your thoughts about the film and other “game changers.” I probably have several of my own (“Hereditary” was one) but I won’t ramble on. Much love to you, Lymp. ❤️

Mark Hall

LOVED Arrival! This pod has definitely inspired me to go watch it again. Such a fresh take on the usual alien sci-fi genre. In regards to what you were saying about aliens never making contact cos we're all dickheads, I did read a potentially more depressing theory that the universe is full of alien dickheads. Well, it was more about how as any civilisation advances the societal and economic strain grows exponentially, effectively collapsing before interplanetary travel would even be possible. And I mean, I could kinda see it. A lot of the time we think aliens are far superior to us, but the likelihood us they're messing up as much as us. Anywho, the last film I saw which felt like "an experience" was probably Everything Everywhere All At Once. It was just so jampacked with bizarre, creative ideas. I remember sitting in the cinema in awe, almost feeling privileged in a way that I was watching it do things I know had never been done before. By the way, I finally have a friend that's getting into the Novympia lifestyle. He's watched the parodies and is currently binging Wendigo Solutions. Made me so happy this last couple weeks sending voice memos and clips back and forth of our favourite jokes. If you could shout out Alex that'd be fab! Thanks again for the gorgeous pod xx

Anonymous

I love thinking about extraterrestrial life. I remember in the third grade during the outer space lesson my teacher mentioned how the Pioneer Plaque and Golden Voyagers were sent into space for the purpose of reaching another form of life. I even made my own powerpoint slideshow about aliens for fun and demanded that I show it to the class. She let me do it because I was showing an interest in independent study. Circling back to Arrival, I became again interested in the contents of the gold we sent into space because it necessarily focuses on the human perspective. What's an alien going to think about classical music or even how the humans are depicted? Also I recall once, whilst under the influence of cannabis, what would happen if the first person a hypothetical alien goodwill ambassador met was someone with a proclivity to shoot a stranger and how that one person could doom us as a species.

Murray

Now I have this image of you trying to communicate with an alien and it asking you what a "kettleussy" is. Id love to hear some more pods about aliens or space if you havent done some already, I find it fascinating to think about. If you think about how vastly different all life on this planet is despite it evolving from a single species billions of years ago, just think about how completely different an alien could look evolving from a different organism on a different planet. Would people even recognise something as an alien if we saw it? Is there a possibility that alien life has already visited but we were just incapable of percieving it?

Anonymous

Earlier this year a load of artifacts were given back to Benin from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. One of my friends is from Benin and went on a trip to see the artifacts back in the museum there, you can see some of the videos and photos on this account https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIu6BfqP7N/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= it's just maddening that we hold all these artifacts in museums in the west still as if they belong to us

Anonymous

The nonexistence of extraterrestrial life is essentially impossible. What’s mostly debatable is if they could actually reach earth in a lifetime given what we know about relativity. Essentially, approaching the speed of light requires the object’s energy to diverge to infinity (which is impossible) and also causes the object to approach infinite mass as well. What I’m curious of is if there are beings capable of spacetime manipulation, warping spacetime to bring one point closer to another, like scrunching up a piece of paper. I would personally be scared of anyone capable of such technology, but I’d have a lot of questions for them.

Anonymous

People thought the earth was flat and it was "impossible" to go around the world. which lead to expeditions across the sea , people said it was "impossible" to see the stars, to fly, to go to the moon or explore the bottom of the ocean etc. Just because it cant happen yet doesn't means it wont also we don't know what the possible ET tech are either, who knows what they got or are capable of.

Anonymous

Yeah exactly. I’m saying it’s statistically impossible that there aren’t other beings in the universe. More than likely A LOT of them given the absolute enormity of space. They just won’t far distance space travel unless they figure out a way to bend spacetime, which I personally think is a definite possibility for some of these beings like you say and would be very cool to learn about (but I’m a physics nerd). I’m also curious if there are beings sort of “born” of space. Like rather than living on a planet or a ship, they live in the vacuum of space and don’t require ships for space travel. That’s really far out there, I guess. But not impossible!

Anonymous

that comment about them existing in the vacuum of space really got me thinking... I wonder what form that would even take? I think of the deep sea and the crazy stuff that lives down there so I wonder what an environment like space would do