Official Discussion: Arrival [SPOILERS]

The ending left me sobbing uncontrollably. No film has quite affected me that way because it reminded me of a conversation I had with my late Mother. Now this is a woman who has suffered great loss and had the hardest life imaginable. She lost a husband and a daughter, and battled three separate bouts of breast cancer. But she still stayed strong despite all that. I asked her one day if you knew before you met my dad, knowing what you know now would you carry on and still do it. Now to take a cynical view she could have just been reassuring me, her youngest child. But the way she said it was so sincere you could tell she meant it wholeheartedly. She said while all those losses and pain were so devastating, it was all worth it for those finite moments of joy, happiness and love. She'd do it a million times over because those moments of happiness far outweighed those feelings of grief she felt. I don't think a film has ever resonated with me so deeply because of that one beautiful memory it brought back up, of my mother and the kind of strength she tried to teach me to have.

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