I read somewhere that this movie is based on a story by Seattle Resident Ted Chiang after watching the DVD version of the movie last night. So I had no idea what to expect when I started watching the movie!
It is about Alien life but is it also about saving a species about to become extinct? Do these spaceships represent dead whales ? What is that ending scene of the so-called 'spaceship' hovering over the misty sea at an angle, then a quick shot of half submerged 'spaceship' or is it a whale, I could not tell clearly!? An Octopus floats by Amy as she enters their zone behind the glass separator that looks remarkably like she is in a present day Aquarium !
The spaceships hanging over the 12 world cities remind me of the whales and their circular 'language' symbols on the glass screen remind me of blood emerging from a roundish wound. [Try to reverse that black ink shot in the movie as it emerges from the octopus hand and spreads to form a circle on the glass screen !!] That is how the 'aliens' communicate about their need for help 3000 years later, i.e. the present day ! OR maybe the author is telling us that the whale and other sea creatures will need our help 3000 years from now OR he maybe telling us it is the arrival of the species starting with snails that Amy and her daughter find under the little stones in the garden as one flashback reminds her OR maybe the author is telling us, by placing the story in Montana, that cows are animals just like whales (one of the 'octopus' lifts its toe that looks like a cow's hoof and knocks on the glass like separator) OR maybe the sea creatures/aliens are telling us that want to be free from the frozen hell and want to be in the green foliage like us (they do a dance and leave dozens of footprints on the separator and there are several shots of Amy in the nature with sunlight peeping thru the thick foliage!)!I could go on....
The movie is confusing as it uses the language of flashback too often! Are they equating Amy's relationship with her child and her loss reflected in the extinction of future children of whales by using the device of flashbacks!
May be I should take my psychiatric medication now because this is exclusively my take on the movie - don't hang me please!
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