J Jagannath: Linguistics and philosophy

Villeneuve is like the alternative Spielberg we never knew we needed

At a time when we are getting inured to the decline of humanities at universities and sciences are getting ridiculous level of preferences, two movies talk about the need for linguistics and philosophy now more than ever. Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is my exhibit A. The Canadian-French director?s follow-up to last year's sweeping hit Sicario is this genre-smashing movie about a linguistics boffin, Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who communicates with aliens and averts a near geopolitical snafu. Her help is sought by the US government when 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft, which seem ...

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J Jagannath: Linguistics and philosophy