This science fiction movie with Amy Adams, as Dr. Louise Banks, is about a Linguistic Professor that is recruited by the US Army to try to communicate with extraterrestrials that landed in 12 countries on earth. The movie challenges the order of time, as it starts when we learn that Dr. Banks’s husband left her when he found out that their daughter will die of cancer. Dr. Banks reminiscences about her daughter’s childhood and dead. When the oval-shaped vessels land, Colonel Weber, played by Forest Whitaker, asks Dr. Banks to join him to attempt to communicate with the beings that landed. Dr. Banks agrees and is joined by a physicist, Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner) in the mission. The different countries involved with dealing with the vessels are so diverse that the lack of trust makes Colonel Weber fear that a war leading to destruction of earth may be launched if the extraterrestrials are challenged. Communication becomes the only way to overcome the challenge but Professor Banks soon realizes that it will take time as she has to rethink entirely simple ways for how to introduce herself to the extraterrestrials, and also how to make sure she communicates to ask them questions such as: what is their purpose on earth, where do they come from, what do they want and how did they get here. The extraterrestrials are heptapods (with long elongated heads and seven feet resembling huge squid) and use their ink to generate circular symbols, which are more of a nonlinear orthography compared to the way we communicate. Professor Banks realizes that the extraterrestrials came to help humanity and she will teach others their language, and that Ian Donnelly will become her husband. It is an odd fiction but makes you think if you could see your life from start to finish would you change something?