advantages:

the picture is very beautiful.

The spacecraft design is aesthetically minimalism, which not only embodies "non-evil", but also immediately expresses the black technology far beyond human beings.

I don't know whether intentionally or unintentionally, China is full of elements. The window, the fog, and the five fingers (seven fingers ...) are in photograph, and the heart is in harmony, and the ink color is condensed, and then it is dizzy ... It can only be described by this lyric:

"I know what Ran Ran sandalwood is thinking through the window, and the pen on the rice paper is put aside half."

I don't know how much money China has spent. The spaceship is like a Go, and the alien characters are like high-order Chinese characters, and the cognitive cycle and symmetry ... But the most important thing is, although the hacking is mindless, when have you ever seen the China navy portrayed in a local American blockbuster, and then took the initiative to play the role of saving the earth?

of course, the greatest advantage is the expression of sapir–whorf hydropathy. Of course, the actual expression is also in line with the typical paradigm of "the theory of academic circles is very grounded and is interpreted by laymen"-there is nothing wrong with this.

Disadvantages:

The rhythm is very slow, so slow that I almost fell asleep several times.

A slightly sensitive audience should be able to guess the story timeline structure soon, and once they guess, they will feel that the movie's editing around the parallel timeline is very bad.

Because it is soft science fiction, it is inevitable to avoid dealing with the logical problem of time crossing. The film was handled in general, and there were too many loopholes.

The male host's looks and temperament are negative ...

How can the female host, a single professor of Linguistics, afford such a good house? ! (Don't ask me how I know 2333)

General Comment:

For the sake of that picture, and more importantly, for the sake of starting from Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it is worth looking at the philosophical thinking of "Human Cognition". However, compared with the annual science fiction masterpiece (Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian) in the previous three years, you can score 6-7% if you are dead. Of course, it is unfair compared with Gravity and The Martian. After all, hard science fiction is much easier to shoot, and the thoughts and emotions involved in hard science fiction are also things that people can empathize with every day. However, it must be said that whether it is the processing of timeline logic that soft science fiction will inevitably involve or the spiritual expression that transcends people's daily emotions, Interstellar is indeed much better than Arrival.

finally, I personally always believe that the ultimate development of human beings in the future is bound to rely on fusion power and cognitive science, especially the latter. Because of this importance, Cognitive Science should have existed as a "college" for a long time, but it still exists in the form of an "interdisciplinary community". Personally, the related disciplines still need to be further split, breaking the old concept of discipline field, and extracting the parts related to Cognitive Science, such as the AI part of CS, the non-social and non-clinical part of Psychology, the Acquisition part of Linguistics, etc., and then integrating them under the purpose framework of Cognitive Science. (The so-called "College of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences" in China is essentially a psychological college. In cognitive science, the "psychology" in our concept is also important, but it is not more important than other fields in the framework)