Arrival written by Eric Heisserer and Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villenueve was nominated for eight Academy Awards (it won just one), nine BAFTAs (again, only one win), and it won many prizes in 2017, speaking of which, this is the time for some self-promotion: you find more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages, plus reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html where you will be among the few, privileged visitors

 

Arrival written by Eric Heisserer and Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villenueve was nominated for eight Academy Awards (it won just one), nine BAFTAs (again, only one win), and it won many prizes in 2017, speaking of which, this is the time for some self-promotion: you find more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages, plus reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html where you will be among the few, privileged visitors

 

 

9 out of 10

 

There is so much to enjoy in this feature, which was nominated for Best Motion Picture in 2017, when Moonlight https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/03/moonlight-by-barry-jenkins-and-tarell.html took the top prize, after the infamous confusion- La La Land had been first announced by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

We have a different, outré, original approach here – perhaps outré and original are so close I should use just one of them, but who reads beyond the first lines, if they even take that trouble? – the leading role belongs to Amy Adams (divine as almost always) who plays a linguist, Louise Banks, we have not seen that before

 

Indeed, there is Close Encounters of The Third Kind https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/close-encounter-of-third-kind-written.html directed by Steven Spielberg, where we see how important language is, they use signs there – I have read about the way Spielberg and

 

Another motion picture that is about Aliens and the manner in which they show up everywhere is Signs, directed by Night Shyamalan, with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix in the lead roles, the plot in this one has very aggressive, dangerous, nay, deadly visitors, they only escape because they have water in glasses in the house

In Arrival, they show up in about a dozen places or more, and their space ships stay up in the air, raising the question ‘why send a few?’, if they have peaceful intentions, and the answer is that they must have some conquest or violent purpose, they have the army near those visitors and then try to understand what they say

 

War of The Worlds https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/war-of-worlds-by-h-g-wells.html by HG Wells was directed by Orson Welles for the public radio, about one hundred years ago, when it created a panic, people thought that the Martians have arrived and they are taking over, killing human beings and occupying the earth

Nonetheless, earthlings can bring about Armageddon by themselves, without outside help, they only need the likes of Putin, Kim of North Korea, Xi of China, Orange Woland of the US – I will move on from this movie, which I liked, in conclusion, and write about what happened yesterday, Friday, December 5, so you can leave

 

Not that anyone was still on the page, which is for the better, since this can work as a ‘confession’ of sorts – I do not sleep well, yesterday it was just 4 hours forty minutes, according to the smart watch, and then I wake up three times in that short period, so at 3 am I was thinking about using a different plan than the usual

I thought I will use the extra time to get to a sex worker, and then I did, but it did not work according to expectations, she was in some sort of work out pants, tall, which is my preference, but rather skinny, said she is not doing this for her pleasure, which I had known, but did not want to be told nevertheless, whatever it was, it triggered the switch off button

After the gym, I went again, to get the missing ‘happy ending’, expect here we go again, there was no ecstasy, and furthermore, it got late, the wind was blowing when I went back home on my bike and…I have a puncture and this means going back two miles, to the repair shop, it is the second such problem in three months, for a new bicycle…  

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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