Arrival

One day, without a sound, colossal elliptical craft descend all across the world. No one can say what they are — friend or foe — and as the nations of the world turn their weapons on them, the one person the US military sends to the front line is a single linguist, asked to find out what the "something" inside has come here to do — through words, before anyone reaches for a trigger. Arrival.

Rarely does a film meet the unknown so quietly. Held in a tension where a single mistranslated word could set off who knows what, her earnest effort to truly understand the other through language ends up — before she even notices — changing the very way she sees the world. You come out with the texture of language feeling a little different in your hands.