Arrival

Twelve ships appear, and the army asks a linguist to find out what the visitors want before someone fires. Villeneuve and Bradford Young keep the interior of the shell gray and slow. Amy Adams’s Louise learns a written language that does not move in a line, and the film’s editing starts to agree with it. Jeremy Renner is the physicist who wants an equation. The Paramount trailer shows the shell and the hands. The translation is the event.