ENGB76H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flashforward
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> sci fi expands our horizions, understanding, perception of life. could change how we interact with others. > allows the score to arise and do something - directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic contentjust as music does. > led falsely to assume it was a flashback but shown in twist that its actually a flashforward. > critic describes arrival as an existential riddle. > personal experience of mothering the little girl vs learning to communicate with the heptapods. > sounds of nature combined with sounds of rocks, etc. > sound used to convey the sacred. e. g. bells. > sound can be a way to lift you into something beyond your brain & natural sounds do that. > heptapods language was not sound based. it was a conveyer of emotions -> e. g abott laughing. > communicating with them by face -> louise asking "where"s abott?" Abott really bonded with louise, he knew he was going to die.
