Metaphors about time and perception. A study about Villeneuve’s movie: Arrival
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v0i18.5530Keywords:
Metaphor, Perception, Language, Philosophy, Sci-Fi, TimeAbstract
Movies has become a field of philosophy experimentation and diffusion. Is possible to recognize several main philosophy subjects through many narratives. And Sci-Fi movie genre has become especially propitious to do this. Through the Sci-Fi is possible to create an environment (a place and a time) where reach the limits of main postulates of philosophy and its implications. This is the situation in Arrival, the Denis Villenueve's film from 2016. Is an story about aliens but without war and destruction. In The Arrival, the matter is about the principles of linguistic relativism. Following the George Lakoff and Mark Johnson´s work through the fiction character Louise Banks and the reflexion about language. The Lakoff and Johnson's work in relationship to the studies of the metaphor set the context and the explanation to this story. This work is focussed on the consequences of language on human perceptions. The consequences of The Arrival movie audience questions about to learn an alien language and about the human language.
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