As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Language is the dress of thought.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.