Deus Ex Machina Relinquit

“You wanna make a baby?”
“Yes. Yeah.”

It’s not prurient or gratuitous dialogue in Arrival; it’s practically the linchpin for the protagonist’s arc.

It may even be the first movie I’ve seen where the “god” vanishes for no seeming reason, instead of arriving at the last minute for the resolution.

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