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Talking in Circles: A Movie Review of "Arrival" (Some Spoilers)

Amy Adams as Dr. Louise Banks and Jeremy Renner as Dr. Ian Donnelly Genesis chapter eleven records a story of the people of the ancient world electing to come together and build a tower tall enough to reach the heavens.  For reasons undisclosed to us mortals, God, having observed this concerted effort, which was apparently destined to succeed, scrambles communication between his peoples.  " If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this," he says, "then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other" ( New International Version , Gen. 11:6).   The engineer could not understand the architect.  The brick layer could not understand the engineer.  It was the last time all of humanity worked together in perfect cooperation.  It was the last time all of humanity spoke a common language. In the story of the Tower of Babel, a universal language was