My Favorite Movie: ‘Arrival’
With Shane Harris and Katherine Mangu-Ward
- In-Person
- Landmark's E Street Theater
555 11th St NW
Washington, D.C. 20004 - 6:15PM 鈥 9:15PM EDT
When 12 mysterious spacecraft arrive to Earth in the 2016 film聽Arrival, they bring with them an eerie question: why are they here?聽聽To answer that question, the U.S. military enlists the help of a top linguist, played by Amy Adams, who is tasked with deciphering the extraterrestrial鈥檚 language. Her mission is backdropped by escalating threats of war and a particularly fraught distinction: the difference between the translations of 鈥渨eapon鈥 and 鈥渢ool.鈥 The film, based on Ted Chiang鈥檚聽Story of Your Life, is a compelling exploration of language, reality, (mis)communication, and how we understand worlds far beyond our own.聽
Join Future Tense on May 13 to watch and discuss the film with Shane Harris and Katherine Mangu-Ward. The event is free and open to the public, and it will be celebrated alongside the聽Space Intersections symposium, organized by and led by Jack Traphagan.
Featuring:
Katherine Mangu-Ward,
Editor-in-Chief, Reason
Shane Harris,
Intelligence and National Security Reporter, The Washington Post
Jack Traphagan
Visiting Scholar, ASU Interplanetary Initiative
