6 Movies That Still Don't Make Any Sense To People
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A perfect example of a predestination paradox is The Terminator (1984.
In The Terminator Skynet sent the T-800 back in time to kill Sara Conner promoting the resistance to send back Kyle Reese to protect her. While on the run from the T-800 Sara & Kyle made John Conner, the person that Skynet was trying to stop the creation of by killing Sara Conner.
If Skynet just sat on its computer butt and did nothing Kyle Reese, the father of John Conner wouldve never been sent back and John Conner wouldve never been created.
Same thing with Louise Banks.
If she never took the linguistics job she never wouldve met Ian. They never wouldve made Hannah. Louise never wouldve went to the party, never wouldve met the Chinese General, never wouldve gotten his private number and never wouldve learned his wifes last words and never wouldve stopped him from using the weapon that wouldve led to the destruction of everything.
So even though she knew how everything was going to turn out she also knew she had to go through all of the pain of losing her child and the divorce to make everything turn out for the better.
Does that make any sense?
Date: 2020-07-14
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AuraMaster
What? Arrival wasn't hard to understand. Aliens can see the future. They know they're in trouble and will need out help in 3000 years, but we need their ability to see the future so they come to Earth to teach us their time-fluid language and thought processes. They have communication issues with many of the places they come into contact with because militaries are doing military things. People think it's a weapon and that the aliens want them to fight. Main character knows it's not a weapon, and goes to the aliens for help getting everyone back together. She realizes it's the ability to see the future. She gets a vision of the future where the head of the Chinese government gives her his phone number and tells her what she said to him to make him stop, because he knows that she can see the future. She calls him, they don't start world war 3. The end. Throughout the movie she caught glimpses of her future daughter, and knows she will die and theres nothing she can do, but decides to have her anyways because she can't live without the time she gets to spend with her.
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What? Arrival wasn't hard to understand. Aliens can see the future. They know they're in trouble and will need out help in 3000 years, but we need their ability to see the future so they come to Earth to teach us their time-fluid language and thought processes. They have communication issues with many of the places they come into contact with because militaries are doing military things. People think it's a weapon and that the aliens want them to fight. Main character knows it's not a weapon, and goes to the aliens for help getting everyone back together. She realizes it's the ability to see the future. She gets a vision of the future where the head of the Chinese government gives her his phone number and tells her what she said to him to make him stop, because he knows that she can see the future. She calls him, they don't start world war 3. The end. Throughout the movie she caught glimpses of her future daughter, and knows she will die and theres nothing she can do, but decides to have her anyways because she can't live without the time she gets to spend with her.
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sicarius100
Who didn't understand Arrival, were people asleep while watching it? It's pretty straightforward once you finish the movie.
The aliens come to teach us a new language because sometime in the future they will need Humanity's help or it's a necessary step to join the intergalactic society. Understanding this new language brings with it the ability to perceive time not as linear progression going from birth to death but as non-linear with branching progression from birth to death. The flashbacks we see interspersed throughout the film are glimpses into this branching timelines from the time when Louise learns/understands this new language at the end of the film. We are lead to believe she ends up making the same decisions that lead to those branches of time we saw because to her the experience (few years with a loving husband and child) were worth the pain she knows will come (losing her daughter and husband.
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Who didn't understand Arrival, were people asleep while watching it? It's pretty straightforward once you finish the movie.
The aliens come to teach us a new language because sometime in the future they will need Humanity's help or it's a necessary step to join the intergalactic society. Understanding this new language brings with it the ability to perceive time not as linear progression going from birth to death but as non-linear with branching progression from birth to death. The flashbacks we see interspersed throughout the film are glimpses into this branching timelines from the time when Louise learns/understands this new language at the end of the film. We are lead to believe she ends up making the same decisions that lead to those branches of time we saw because to her the experience (few years with a loving husband and child) were worth the pain she knows will come (losing her daughter and husband.
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robajohnson
I love sci-fi. I did not fail to understand Solaris because I quit in the middle. It was BORING! I can't believe there is anyone who struggled with Arrival. It was clearly explained. Plus it was a fun twist how what had seemed to be flashbacks were not. Last of all, the whole emotional point of, there will be pain in life but make sure to treasure all of the joy you can as well is a great message pointed out brutally! I can get anyone who complains that in Arrival, Time does not work that way but I do not get anyone that did not understand the plot.
The other 4 movies I never even heard of! LOL
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I love sci-fi. I did not fail to understand Solaris because I quit in the middle. It was BORING! I can't believe there is anyone who struggled with Arrival. It was clearly explained. Plus it was a fun twist how what had seemed to be flashbacks were not. Last of all, the whole emotional point of, there will be pain in life but make sure to treasure all of the joy you can as well is a great message pointed out brutally! I can get anyone who complains that in Arrival, Time does not work that way but I do not get anyone that did not understand the plot.
The other 4 movies I never even heard of! LOL
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Janko
I watched Arrival a couple of days ago, didn't find it that complex to understand. I am not saying that it's a bad film (acting, directing were excellent / music was awful but fitting) but it didn't have a memorable impression on me.
It was way too slow-paced at 'some' points and didn't manage to captivate my attention enough.
I found out about it as a suggestion on IMDB, after I looked for similar movies as 'The Jacket' and, in my opinion, Arrival doesn't even come close to it!
Whoever liked the film - good for you - I just don't understand all the exhilaration about it.
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I watched Arrival a couple of days ago, didn't find it that complex to understand. I am not saying that it's a bad film (acting, directing were excellent / music was awful but fitting) but it didn't have a memorable impression on me.
It was way too slow-paced at 'some' points and didn't manage to captivate my attention enough.
I found out about it as a suggestion on IMDB, after I looked for similar movies as 'The Jacket' and, in my opinion, Arrival doesn't even come close to it!
Whoever liked the film - good for you - I just don't understand all the exhilaration about it.
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Zachary
My take on Solaris, having read the book, is that the planet they're orbiting is a single very powerful, very different being, perhaps something like our concept of God, and the hallucinations are how it communicates with humans, whom it neither fears nor sympathizes with. It is actually remake of a black & white era Russian film (Tarkovsky) of the same name with roughly the same tone.
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My take on Solaris, having read the book, is that the planet they're orbiting is a single very powerful, very different being, perhaps something like our concept of God, and the hallucinations are how it communicates with humans, whom it neither fears nor sympathizes with. It is actually remake of a black & white era Russian film (Tarkovsky) of the same name with roughly the same tone.
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Nils
Wait. Doesn't make sense in a too smart for most audiences kinda way, or doesn't make sense in a too dumb for most audiences kinda way? There's a big difference. The former implies entries like 'Primer' and '2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter implies Now you see me and Signs?
I'm still not convinced films like The Prestige and Inception aren't in a superposition between the two, btw.
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Wait. Doesn't make sense in a too smart for most audiences kinda way, or doesn't make sense in a too dumb for most audiences kinda way? There's a big difference. The former implies entries like 'Primer' and '2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter implies Now you see me and Signs?
I'm still not convinced films like The Prestige and Inception aren't in a superposition between the two, btw.
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Robert
George Clooney's Solaris is a Hollywood remake of a Russian film by the same title. If you understand the emotional and social trauma inflicted on people by the Communist regime of the Soviet Union, the original Solaris makes perfect sense. Without the agony of lost loved ones, background paranoia, and suppression of personal life, Americans cannot relate to Solaris.
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George Clooney's Solaris is a Hollywood remake of a Russian film by the same title. If you understand the emotional and social trauma inflicted on people by the Communist regime of the Soviet Union, the original Solaris makes perfect sense. Without the agony of lost loved ones, background paranoia, and suppression of personal life, Americans cannot relate to Solaris.
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hippomancy
Solaris- the planet is an entity trying to communicate with smaller minds, and it sends figures from the minds of the humans as exploratory probes to try to understand us through smaller interactions than it is used to. Hence the mis-steps and errors. Chris is not at home at the end, his mind is opened up to the entity.
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Solaris- the planet is an entity trying to communicate with smaller minds, and it sends figures from the minds of the humans as exploratory probes to try to understand us through smaller interactions than it is used to. Hence the mis-steps and errors. Chris is not at home at the end, his mind is opened up to the entity.
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Jon
There is a movie on Netflix called 'How It Ends' with Theo James and Forrest Whitaker. The title of the movie is also the whole theme of the movie by the time you get to the end. It really leaves you thinking 'Huh? ' or 'That IS how it ends? That doesn't make any sense or answer any questions you have left. '
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There is a movie on Netflix called 'How It Ends' with Theo James and Forrest Whitaker. The title of the movie is also the whole theme of the movie by the time you get to the end. It really leaves you thinking 'Huh? ' or 'That IS how it ends? That doesn't make any sense or answer any questions you have left. '
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