``The Arrival'' Denis Villeneuve's vivid Arrival that updates the senses of everyone who watches it.

Two keywords related to the theme: “Sapir-Whorf hypothesis” and “non-zero sum The Game”

The original story is " Story of Your Life " by Chinese-American author Ted Chiang. It won the prestigious Nebula Award for speculative fiction in 2000. The screenplay was adapted by Eric Heisserer (a rising star who will write the screenplay for the Hollywood live-action version of "Your Name" produced by J.J. Abrams), who trimmed and streamlined the elements of the original novel while adding screen-friendly spectacle and suspenseful developments such as disgruntled guards going berserk and China declaring war on the Alien to heighten the drama.

I would like to mention two keywords from the play that are closely related to the theme of the work. First, the ``Sapir-Whorf hypothesis'' comes up in a conversation between Louise and physicist Ian. The way you think is shaped by the language you speak, and language influences the way you see things, so learning a foreign language changes the way you think - and that's what the dialogue says. In reality, this hypothesis has been criticized and its reliability is questionable, but in ``The Arrival'' it functions as a theory to explain the change in Louise's senses. If I were to describe the transformation that occurs to her in a little more detail (without spoilers), it would be a change in perception related to the perception of time. Heptapods and humans perceive time differently. Therefore, the theory is that by learning the language of the heptapods, Louise will be able to perceive time the same way they do.

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The other is "non-zero sum The Game". It may be better known by its original English expression, ``non-zero-sum The Game.'' In The Game theory, a situation in which if someone wins, someone else always loses is called a "zero sum." On the other hand, a situation where one person wins does not necessarily mean that someone else loses, and where everyone involved can benefit or suffer a disadvantage, is called a ``non-zero sum.'' The sequence in the middle of the film, where Louise utters this keyword in a conversation with her daughter, is an important hint at the film's structural device. Furthermore, it echoes the words that a character says towards the end: ``There are no victors in war. Only widows are left.''

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