Arrival
Renowned linguist Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is recruited by the U.S. government to decipher an alien language after a dozen of their aircraft land on earth. Throughout the film, Banks is suffering from what appears to be vivid flashbacks of her young daughter's life and death, but what we eventually learn is that Banks is seeing her future with fellow scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner); the hetapods' language is that of nonlinear time, and they have come to Earth in order to share the language with humans and prevent widespread disaster.
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