Arrival (2016) | Conceptualizing Reality Through Language
Language in these shows is part of the generic verisimilitude, and we accept that. Universal translators and the translator circuit are plausible. In Denis Villeneuve's 2016 movie Arrival, however, language stays a part of the cultural verisimilitude, at least for most of the movie. Louise Banks, a linguistic professor, is approached by the U.S. military with the task of deciphering, that is, translating the language of the aliens that have landed on Earth.
