time

2 films tagged with “time”

film · 2016

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve's Arrival does something rare in science fiction: it places language — not weapons, not technology — at the centre of first contact. Louise Banks is recruited not to fight but to understand. The film's p…

first-contactlanguagecomplexity

film · 2004

Primer

Shane Carruth

Two engineers build something in a garage and then lose track of what it does. That is the whole of Primer, and it is also the reason the film has a reputation for being impossible to follow. The unintelligibility is not…

complexitysystems-failureengineering