Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
2 days ago
> It is often said that learning a new language can reframe or expand your world view.
That was sort of the whole concept of Arrival; but in an even more extreme way.
2 days ago
> It is often said that learning a new language can reframe or expand your world view.
That was sort of the whole concept of Arrival; but in an even more extreme way.
Learning an alien language allowed people to disconnect their consciousness from linear time, allowing them to do things in the past with knowledge they gained later, though I seem to recall they didn't know why they did it at the time, or how they had gotten that information.
I'll have to watch it again. I suffer from C.R.A.F.T. (Can't Remember A Fucking Thing).
Lois Lane and Hawkeye play Pictionary with a squid inside one segment from a fleet made out a massive Terry's Chocolate Orange, each part of which is hovering over a different part of the world in exactly the way real chocolate oranges don't.