10 Most Confusing Movie Endings People Don't Understand

1. Arrival

And finally, we have Denis Villeneuve's mind-blowing sci-fi thriller Arrival, which opens with the revelation that genius linguist Louise Banks' (Amy Adams) daughter died from an incurable illness as a teenager.

The rest of the film follows Louise's attempts to help the U.S. government understand and communicate with a series of extraterrestrial creatures which have landed on Earth.

Near the end of Arrival, it's revealed that the alien language allows those who learn it to view time in a non-linear fashion, and that Louise's memories of her past are in fact visions of her future. That is to say, her daughter hasn't been born yet.

Furthermore, it's revealed that Louise's colleague Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) will be the father of her child, and her eventually telling Ian that she knew their daughter would die causes him to leave her.

The film ends with Louise embracing her envisioned future, in all of its beauty and pain. What really made audiences struggle with this ending, however, is its approach to time and how humans perceive it.

The way we live our lives encourages us to view it as a linear line from A to B, but Arrival challenges audiences to disregard that and view it instead as a flat circle with no real beginning or end.

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